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...next nine hours, Summers and then-Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin ’60 persuaded the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank, and finance ministers from several foreign countries to support a $49.8 billion aid package that saved the Mexican government from default...
...thinking . . . I found that mothers were likely to be successful if they appeared to conform to a maternal stereotype of self-sacrifice on behalf of their children. Generally, fathers were successful when mothers were judged to be in some way inadequate - that is, fathers tended to be successful by default...
...time they want to activate the new links, "it is a user-elected feature," says Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products. Mayer says the company plans to give users more say. The map feature allows people to select Yahoo or MapQuest, though Google Maps is the default setting...
...cost to service it: $1 out of every $10.75 in disposable income is eaten up by interest payments. That's higher than in the late '80s when home mortgage rates were 17%, compared to around 7% nowadays. If rates rise, it doesn't necessarily mean that people will default on their loans or be forced to sell their homes cheaply, according to the central bank chief - as long as they hold on to their jobs. But households are now more "cyclically sensitive" to a downturn. There's a risk that a rate rise could lead to a big fall...
...snagged a straight-set, 6-4, 6-4 triumph, and senior Martin Wetzel, currently ranked No. 20, took a come-from-behind 6-7, 6-3, 4-2 (default) decision...