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...that 56% of Swiss now support helping foreign countries identify tax evaders, up from just 20% last year. Even some ministers and bankers agree that changes to the 75-year-old law might be necessary to avoid continued pressure from abroad. "The fact that the Swiss no longer fervently defend this treasured tradition also shows a change in how they view the banking industry now," Bretholz says. "They don't want to be seen as a nation that hides other people's money...
...government's compelling interests in wartime justify restrictions on the scope of individual liberty.' JOHN YOO, Bush Administration Deputy Assistant Attorney General, in a secret 2001 memo recently made public that sought to defend greatly increased presidential powers...
...text under the desk without glancing down, their phones set with a ringtone pitched too high for adults to hear. We are fighting on their turf. They are up in the trees and underground and in caves while we march around in our bright red uniforms trying to defend their dignity and virtue. Not a fair fight...
...largest issue between now and whenever the cataclysm ends is whether the major economic powers develop more intimate relationships or are driven to isolation in order to defend their economies through protectionism. This development would reach an epic level if nations such as China began to hold capital in their country and slow their purchase of U.S. debt. That would begin a lethal exchange between the greatest exporting and importing nations of the world, with America blocking the inflow of Chinese goods and China flailing back by throttling its appetite for Treasuries. Without the ability to borrow money at reasonable...
...went on to defend the release of the report, citing the fact that two committee members are on leave for the spring and that four students on the committee will graduate in June...