Word: bankes
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...team training for the Winter Olympics turn for help? Stephen Colbert. Seriously. On Monday night's Colbert Report, the mock-blowhard host of the Comedy Central show announced that he will ask his loyal fans to donate money to the U.S. Speedskating team, whose largest commercial cash sponsor, Dutch bank DSB, just went belly-up. (Colbert snarkily referred to DSB as "Deposit Savings in Bong.") In exchange for the publicity and potential revenue, Colbert Nation logos will be stitched onto the suits of both long-track and short-track skaters during World Cup competitions before the Olympics. Right...
This isn't some kind of prank, right? "We're not viewing this as a joke at all," says Crowley. Colbert really is throwing U.S. Speedskating a lifeline. The Dutch bank had been the U.S. team's most generous benefactor (speedskating is huge in the Netherlands), but a run on the bank caused DSB to go under in mid-October, leaving U.S. Speedskating with a $300,000 budget shortfall. "The Olympics are our Super Bowl, Masters and Tour de France combined," says Derek Parra, a 2002 speedskating gold medalist who is now one of the coaches for the U.S. team...
...help the foreclosure situation. It should help. Ironically enough, I think foreclosure sales are contributing to home prices stabilizing. In one way, we have certain markets that may have overcorrected. If you go to a Stockton, Calif., or a Las Vegas or somewhere like that, when there is a bank property on the market, the realtors are getting dozens of offers above asking price. We're seeing bidding wars at the lower end of the market. I think what we're seeing in terms of the home prices may be a little bit of a false positive because of some...
...United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) estimated that 22 percent of the Honduran population lived in extreme poverty, earning less than $1.25 a day. The World Bank, which ranked Honduras as the third poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, estimated in 2007 that over 59 percent of the population lives below the poverty line...
...Ensures that all Class bank accounts are signed by at least one other Class Officer and/or one of the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association staff at 124 Mount Auburn...