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...Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Reserve and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS). He would give their power to supervise and regulate banks to a new, single bank regulator with power to set capital requirements and ensure stability. By contrast, the Frank-Geithner-negotiated bill in the House would do away with only the OTS, leaving the FDIC in charge of state-chartered-bank supervision, the OCC in charge of nationally chartered banks and the Fed in charge of complex financial institutions...
...contrast, Erik Pitchal, an assistant clinical professor of law at Suffolk Law School and yesterday’s second guest speaker, said that the country’s youth needed to participate more in child welfare processes...
...contrast, straight women are not necessarily attracted to the most masculinized male faces and lesbians are not always drawn to the most feminized faces, Glassenberg said...
Officials at the University Health Services will advise all undergraduates to be vaccinated against swine flu in sharp contrast to Massachusetts policy and to a just-completed Harvard Medical School study that will recommend against mass immunization of young adults...
...candor, her willingness to listen to and acknowledge criticism, had begun to undermine the prevailing Pakistani image of the U.S. as arrogant and bossy, more interested in having the Pakistani military fight its war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban than in having a true strategic partnership. The contrast was especially sharp after George W. Bush's eight years of unqualified support for the military dictatorship of Pervez Musharraf. "In the past, when the Americans came, they would talk to the generals and go home," said Farahnaz Ispahani, a government spokeswoman and Member of Parliament. "Clinton's willingness to meet...