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...America has simply said, "As a creditor of the company, we continue to honor all of our agreements with the company, and have provided the maximum amount of funding we can under the terms of our agreement." Bank of America was recently the recipient of $25 billion in federal bailout funds...
Ever since the automakers first asked for a bailout last month, the Bush Administration has been urging that it come out of a $25 billion loan package Congress approved in September that the automakers were supposed to use to retool their assembly lines to build more fuel-efficient vehicles. Democratic Congressional leaders have wanted the cash to come instead from the $700 billion financial rescue pot they gave Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in October - which is why the auto executives found themselves in the strange position of pleading their case before the House and Senate banking committees...
...York Democrat Chuck Schumer recommended that a single official - the Treasury Secretary, or someone else - be appointed to oversee the process. But nobody's volunteering for that job. Officials at Treasury and the Federal Reserve, already overburdened with the banking bailout, aren't interested. And the rest of the Bush administration seems to be running on autopilot for the final weeks of its existence...
...meltdown has spurred the Office of Career Services to propose changes to the timeline of the interview process. Along with Yale, Harvard holds its recruiting season several weeks after most other law schools in the country. This year, several events including Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy and the government bailout of AIG shook up financial markets in between the two recruiting seasons, causing firms that ordinarily reserve spots for Harvard students to reduce the number of hires...
...India's public demands as an unwarranted admission of guilt. And any large-scale move against Pakistan-based militants could bring a sharp reaction on the streets. Zardari's government is in a particularly precarious position now that it has been forced to seek an International Monetary Fund bailout to avoid bankruptcy - the conditions attached to the IMF loan will force the government to rein in public spending, intensifying the hardships being suffered by much of the population and raising the likelihood of social instability...