Word: brooksley
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...into giant investment banks whose failure could endanger the financial system. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency battled state regulators over who had the right to impose consumer protection rules. And in a struggle that has taken on special resonance this week, Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief Brooksley Born - a Clinton appointee - tried after the collapse of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998 to impose some kind of federal oversight on the over-the-counter derivatives market, and was thwarted by a less-than-holy alliance of anti-regulation types in Congress and colleagues...
PREDICTOR William Safire, New York Times PREDICTION ''Replacements for retiring Justices Blackmun, White and Stevens will be Richard Posner, Brooksley Born and Floyd Abrams.'' WHAT HAPPENED Only Justice Byron White retired. He was replaced by Ruth Ginsburg...
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