Word: bankes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...forecasts for Bank of America (BAC) are even more troubling for investors who want some comfort in certainty even if the numbers are bad. The high estimate for losses in the last quarter is $.25. One analyst is taking the bullish case with $.59 a share profit. No one believe that the best numbers so it is hard to understand why they are even still on the books...
...elements in their struggle.Deneshyar notes that there is a clause which permits interference if illicit behavior is of a public nature. The public activity of Diadji Diouf and his colleagues, however, was not homosexual behavior. It was fighting AIDS, a disease for which Senegal receives funds from the World Bank to battle. AIDS strikes people indiscriminant of sexual orientation, and is ironically exacerbated by homophobia.Overall, the chances of the activists being released are thin. But they are even thinner if cultural context is disregarded. Far in the future there might be a point in which homosexuality can find some immunity...
...Time Warner (TWX). He may take Bischoff's place as Citi chairman but he did not do a bang up job at the media company. He has also been sitting on the Citi board during most of the period when the decisions were made that nearly brought the bank down. It would be hard to defend the position that he is blameless...
...Citi is still going through a period when it is important for the government, which loaned the bank money, and investors, who lost most of theirs, to see someone humiliated for the company's missteps. That is a fine way to focus on the past but not on the future. That means the board is compounding its mistakes by continuing to take its eye off the real problems...
Meanwhile, a Hamas commander in the West Bank denied reports, apparently passed on by Egypt to Israeli envoys, that the Damascus wing of Hamas wanted to persist with the fighting, while its Gaza leaders wanted to quit. He told TIME, "There's no place in a war for disagreements and splits. This talk of a difference between Damascus and Gaza is just wishful thinking on the part of the Israelis and some Arabs...