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...campaign committees. They hire lobbyists to argue their case with Congress by session. These lobbyists do not convince just due to force of their arguments. Sometimes, yes, they offer help with reelection or threaten to back a challenger. Other times, they provide information other sources cannot and become an asset to Congressional offices...
Fidelity fired a salvo two weeks later, when it cut trade commissions to a flat fee of $7.95 from previous rates that ranged from $8 to $19.95 depending on trading volume and asset size. E*Trade, best known for its popular talking baby ads, joined the battle in early February when it trimmed equity-trading fees for low-volume investors to $9.99 from $12.99, although it still maintained a premium deal of $7.99 per trade for higher-volume customers. Scottrade stayed put, as it already offers flat $7 trading fees. (See the top 10 worst corporate name changes...
...even deployed if necessary," Riki Ellison, a former NFL linebacker who now heads the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, said shortly after the shootdown. "The ability of our military to use the airborne laser ... to engage and destroy multiple Iranian missiles in seconds over Iran could be a critical asset if in the future a situation arose between Iran and the United States...
NEIL BAROFSKY, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, arguing in a report to Congress that the issues that led to the 2008 financial crisis remain unaddressed...
...America is nevertheless friendlier to entrepreneurship than China is—a valuable asset, Ferguson said, for the future of American finance...