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...matriarch (Kristen Scott Thomas) thoroughly disapproves of her son John's (Ben Barnes) taste in brides. He was supposed to marry Sarah (Charlotte Riley), the girl from the next castle over, who could have restored the family to its former glory. Instead he shows up with Larita, a race-car-driving native of Detroit who doesn't want to play lawn tennis, is a fan of Lady Chatterley's Lover and demands to know the cook's name ("Cook, I can't call you by a verb...
...problems and they each compound the government deficit troubles. The IRS is collected much less than the current federal budget forecasts as individual and business taxpayers experience drops in their incomes. On the spending side of the ledger, the costs of stimulating the economy and bailing out businesses from car companies to GMAC rises each week...
...federal government will end up owning bits and pieces of businesses including banks, car companies and insurance firms as it puts money into industries weakened by the recession. The Achilles Heel of this investing strategy is that there is no central authority watching the "portfolio" and no publicly articulated statement about when the holdings will be valuable enough to sell. Essentially, the taxpayer has nothing to tell him about the planned returns on his investments...
Investments in the car and banking industries are long term whether the government likes it or not. The restructuring of those sectors may take years. Selling federal ownership in companies already weakened by the economy or a series of poor management decisions would undermine the public's tenuous trust in institutions such as GM (GM) and Citigroup (C). The American taxpayer may be faced with a decade in which there is no return for the government's assistance which was meant to keep critical portions of the economy from collapsing. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...very proud of this car,” his mother recalled...