Word: bobbed
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...services. In Mexico, Citigroup has written more than 1 million life-insurance policies in conjunction with Compartamos, and in India it offers customers savings accounts and ATM access in partnership with microfinancier BASIX. "Not everyone will be an entrepreneur, but most of us have to save for something," says Bob Annibale, head of Citigroup's microfinance unit. Microfinanciers around the world are racing to offer the first real micromortgages. "That we are now talking about creating financial systems that include the majority of people in developing countries is a real departure from what has existed for centuries," says Mar?...
...efforts to talk to struggling working-class voters with feel-your-pain intensity and increased specificity about how he would help them as President. His man-of-the-people persona has improved lately but is still a work in progress. McCain continues to sound more like the incoherent Bob Dole than the inspirational Ronald Reagan when talking about tax cuts and the rest of his economic platform. No matter what Hillary Clinton says about healing the Democratic Party, it seems clear the mistrust between Obama and her (and their respective supporters) runs deep. Finding common allies to smooth things over...
...main hobby was studying, as was mine,” Toder said, “but during junior and senior years, we would play games of low-stakes poker, and Bob was very good...
...bond,” said Michael B. G. Froman, Rubin’s former chief of staff at the Treasury. “Oftentimes it was sort of like a constant seminar back and forth...It was a rich intellectual partnership—I say partnership on purpose, because Bob very much treated Larry like a very important partner in everything...
...Much ado has been made about the book. Beyond the bemusement of McClellan’s former comrades, former Sen. Bob Dole—getting sentimental in his old age—called its author a “miserable creature” who “cashed in,” while Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler has asked that McClellan officially bite the hand that fed him before the House Judiciary Committee. For his part, the former fall guy has only cited a new “loyalty to the truth,” one that supplants his former...