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...report recommends upgrading House staff while decreasing the administrative workload of tutors. But decreasing House staff would effectively derail those two goals, House Masters said...
...past 20 years as Mexico oriented itself to the outside world, joined the World Trade Organization and signed the North American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. and Canada. Even in the first years of this decade, when the shift of global manufacturing to China threatened to derail Mexican progress, the economy held its own. Politically, the election of the conservative Vicente Fox as President in 2000 - a mere 12 years after the PRI almost certainly stole the presidency from Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the candidate of the left - marked a decisive break with the past and signaled...
...number of risks remain for the nation's largest banks, any one of which could derail the recent rally. Not only will banks' earnings probably be down in the first quarter, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plan to rid the banks of their troubled loans suggests there could be billions more in losses as banks offload these loans in the quarters ahead. What's more, a number of banks have yet to deal with a requirement to recapitalize their large trove of off-balance sheet assets, which will put further strain on banks already strapped for cash...
Still, episodes like this are stoking tension between the Administration and the Senate - particularly with the Finance Committee, which has vetted a number of the nominees for whom problems have emerged, including the tax issues that threatened to derail the confirmation of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and forced former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle to withdraw his name from consideration as head of HHS. One source close to the process says the Finance Committee is now giving such scrutiny to the tax records of Administration nominees that, amid the committee's larger concerns, it has questioned items as small...
...American officials tell it, the real hero of the hour, proving his mettle at his first summit, was President Barack Obama. The remaining point of disagreement, which threatened until the last minute to derail the consensus so devoutly wished for by all parties, centered on tax havens. Sarkozy was determined that a list of tax havens that refuse to provide information to foreign tax authorities on request should be published immediately by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as part of a clampdown on such havens. China, not a member of the OECD, was stalling because...