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...doozy. Sales at Citigroup, for instance, fell in three of its biggest units - investment banking, consumer banking and transaction processing - compared with the prior quarter. So while Citi's government-assistance repayment accounts for a big part of its losses, even without that, the bank still lost $1.4 billion in the last quarter of 2009. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...reduction in sodium intake on rates of heart disease and death. They also calculated the cost savings emerging from the amount of disease that would be avoided because of lower blood pressure. The conclusion: by cutting salt intake nationwide, the U.S. could save $10 billion to $24 billion annually in health care costs...
...United States Senator for Massachusetts as to what we've done [in the state]. We have a [law achieving near universal coverage] that passed unanimously. Bipartisan. Voted for it, worked on it, happy to do it. We passed it. We went from paying over almost $1 billion to the hospitals in the uncompensated health care pool to paying much less and now providing - when people walk in the door, they get a form of insurance...
What seems to have particularly infuriated the President and her supporters is Cobos' attempt to mediate in the standoff between the president and Argentina's autonomous central bank, which has refused to hand over $6.6 billion that the cash-hungry government says it needs to pay off foreign creditors. Opposition legislators see the request for cash as the latest in a series of asset grabs by Argentina's Peronist government and a populist play ahead of next year's elections. When President Fernandez used an emergency decree to order the seizure of assets last month, opposition members obtained a court...
...road Radical Party, which lost its role as the counterbalance to the populist Peronists when Argentina's dual-party system broke down following the downfall of the disastrous Radical administration of President Fernando de la Rua in 2001. Economic collapse and social unrest led Argentina to default on $141 billion in foreign debt. Since then, the rambunctious Peronists have dominated Argentina's political scene, first under Nestor Kirchner, who oversaw the country's return to decent economic health, and then under his wife Fernandez, who was labeled Argentina's new Evita when she won the presidency herself...