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Directly investing in the banks allows Paulson to get the money to where it is needed the fastest, which would then allow well-capitalized banks to loosen the strings of lending. Nationalization? Not quite. Under such a plan, the U.S. would become a shareholder in banks, taking stock in exchange for the capital injection. The government would essentially become a passive investor. It wouldn't take any board seats, and it wouldn't actively seek to influence how the banks were being run. It doesn't have to; Treasury has regulatory control over the banking system anyway. Harvey has proposed...
...sacks may be harder to come by against a Cornell attack that has yet to allow one despite attempting nearly 40 passes per game...
...cornerstone of the concentration, Mitchell said, and it connects the special field back to the methodology of folklore and mythology.“Since it’s such a broad field and so interdisciplinary the only way it makes sense to structure the concentration is to allow students to put together a set of courses that create a cohesive academic unit,” Tatar said. “There’s so much to draw on really that we’ve found that students feel they’ve got an embarrassment of riches more than...
...have is the sprinkling of edible gold leaf on my chocolate molten cake from Finale. So I wonder: with pencil, not dirt pick, in hand, are jeans a relic of the past? A bold assertion, followed by a question, that raises doubts about my sanity, I realize. But allow me to qualify my statement. I like boyfriend jeans. I like your boyfriend’s jeans. But I don’t like these-are-so-tight-that-I-can’t-breathe-let-alone-move jeans. And trust me, I have more than my own fair share. Maybe...
...There's a reason for the officers' light touch. For years, British policing has been restrained by the 1981 abolition of the "Sus Law" that had allowed police to stop and search citizens simply on suspicion of criminal intent. "Sus" sparked riots in several British cities, amid charges that it sanctioned racist harassment of young black men. But a surge of youth violence - violent offenses by perpetrators aged under 18 rose 37% in three years to 2006 - has prompted the government to once again beef up the discretionary powers of cops on the street. "Dispersal orders," for example, allow officers...