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...Israel will be forced to avoid + simply handing the U.S. the bill: "Much more effort will be required to mobilize financial resources from the oil-rich states in the gulf and from Europe and Japan." But American officials readily acknowledge that the U.S. will have to be the principal banker, supplying American money and rounding up more from financial partners and world institutions...
...jury forewoman's voice broke as she said "Not guilty" to each of the charges against banker and lawyer Robert Altman. Moments later, jurors with watery eyes hugged Altman and his wife, actress Lynda Carter, then posed for photos with them and exchanged addresses. All agreed: this was an innocent man, unfairly accused...
NAFTA also offers an opportunity to manage the fast growing trade relationship between Mexico and the United States. A recent Banker's Trust report reveals that Mexico will soon replace Japan as the United States' biggest trading partner. With or without an agreement, the two economies will become more intertwined. Capital investment, made more attractive by Mexico's embrace of liberal economic principles is going to continue, and NAFTA will provide instructive guideline...
What do you do when your banking system is overwhelmed by capitalist symptoms like cash shortages, a depreciating currency and rampant credit expansion? You blame your top banker. The designated scapegoat is Li Guixian, governor of the People's Bank of China. He will be replaced -- temporarily -- by Vice Premier Zhu Rongji, the man in charge of China's economy...
...collaborated enthusiastically with their Nazi invaders during World War II. Christian Didier, a sometime author who was born during the war, pumped four bullets into Rene Bousquet, a man he described as a "piece of garbage," then summoned TV reporters to explain the deed. Bousquet, 84, a successful former banker, had served as a high-ranking police official in the Nazi-friendly Vichy government and had been accused of deporting thousands of Jewish children to German concentration camps...