Word: corpe
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...plan has three parts. Most people have focused on the first part, which is run by the reliable Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) and about which Geithner provided the most detail on Monday. It covers not the complex bundled loans that have received much attention in the media but troubled loans, like mortgages that haven't been paid for three months or more. The plan offers very favorable financing for private investors who want to buy them. In an example provided by the Treasury, an investor would pay as little as $6 for a loan that had an original value...
...General Motors Corp. cars have ever had the mystique of the Chevrolet Camaro. A macho machine if ever there was one, the Camaro was launched in the 1967 model year in response to Ford's fabulous Mustang. The Camaro made waves quickly, because buyers had the option of muscling it up with GM's big-block V8 engines, turning a sporty 4-seat roadster into a street monster and track regular. Mustang had the name; but Camaro had the horses. Like many of Detroit's muscle cars, though, Camaro was doomed by paunchier styling and performance over the years...
...pedicab. But nearby, the rush for oil and gas is intense; last year, Russian, Thai and Vietnamese companies signed exploration deals with the junta. In late December, a consortium of four foreign companies, led by South Korea's Daewoo, inked an agreement with the junta and China National Petroleum Corp. to extract natural gas from Arakan's offshore Shwe fields and pipe it northeast through Burma to China's Yunnan province. The pipeline, along with a plan for a new deepwater port in Arakan where ships laden with Middle Eastern oil can dock and disgorge their valuable cargo, gives China...
...victims, the IRS said that those who are suing Madoff will be able to recover 75% of their net operating loss, while those not suing will be able to recover 95%. This does not, however, include monies recovered through filing claims with the Securities Investor Protection Corp., which...
...world has changed for print media. On Jan. 9, the Hearst Corp. announced that the financially strapped paper was for sale. If no buyer could be found within 60 days, the paper would be forced to close its doors or produce a Web-only version with a fraction of its staff. The P-I's demise is a sign of the times, coming in the wake of the Feb. 27 closure of Denver's Rocky Mountain News weeks short of its 150th anniversary, while the San Francisco Chronicle, another Hearst paper, has been put on notice that its days...