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...federal workers, bringing government agencies, museums, parks and laboratories to a halt. "Essential" workers--including national-security, safety and communications personnel--were ordered to stay on the job during the crisis. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin juggled the federal books and tapped two civil service retirement funds in order to avert a potentially chaotic default on government obligations...
...budget plan and not on an extension of the nation's debt ceiling, which is scheduled to expire sometime this month. Republicans have said they won't agree to more than a brief extension of the debt--which must be approved by Congress and is necessary to avert default on billions of dollars in government bonds--unless President Clinton agrees to accept the main provisions of their budget package. So far, the President has rejected making a deal...
...illegal loans and business transactions for their personal benefit." A few of these individuals drained money out of the bank, the complaint alleges, "by making fraudulent statements and presenting false and misleading financial information," leading to bad loans. In 1989 Saudi European nearly collapsed, and in order to avert a financial crisis, French authorities arranged for an investment group to take it over. According to the lawsuit, fraudulent borrowing and other misconduct by the defendants had crippled the bank. Investcorp and several other defendants have filed motions to dismiss the complaint. A number of them are also plaintiffs in continuing...
...Crimson can avert the rustiness, freak accidents, and adversity that have marked this season of astounding improvement over last, it has a sound chance of achieving that closure next weekend...
...among them Gwyneth Paltrow as the young cop's wife (whom we immediately perceive as good, and therefore doomed), do their best to ground this twaddle in recognizable behavior. But it is very tiresome peering through the gloom trying to catch a glimpse of something interesting, then having to avert one's eyes when it turns out to be just another brutally tormented body...