Word: browning
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...politicians, anger directed at bankers is also anger that's not being channeled toward them. Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister, has hardly emerged unscathed from the collapse of the U.K. economy - he was, after all, the country's finance minister for a decade until 2007 - but he's also helped stoke the public's irritation toward banks. "The anger that the public has," the Prime Minister said in February of the furor over the size of Fred Goodwin's pension, "is anger that I have as well." Just don't expect to see Brown on the streets next week...
Born in Cambridge, Brown became a stripper at age 14 during the 1940s. She was forbidden from performing in Boston after she “mistakenly” exposed her breasts on stage...
...Flyby are still not exactly sure why Cambridge thought it was important to give Brown her own holiday, but then again, she does seem to be an ex-stripper with historical significance. We’ll give the city council members points for being risqu?...
...than it is now. But given the retaliation from America's trading partners after the new tariffs were applied, few would argue with Zoellick's assessment that the contraction of trade in the 1930s made the long downturn worse than it needed to be. "Protectionism," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told TIME recently, "is the road to ruin...
...Brown says, the key issues that the world faces today cannot be dealt with by rich nations acting alone. That is as true of the regulation of global financial markets as it is of the relief of poverty. Climate change cannot be tackled by any one nation, or any group of nations, however rich and powerful they may be; any solution that does not include within its policy parameters India and China is worthless. (Read TIME's special report on The G-20, including an interview with Gordon Brown...