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...effort to revive Britain's flagging banking sector has reversed the government's fortunes. Prime Minister Brown's broadly popular plan - which includes extra liquidity for banks and government guarantees for their debt - has inspired similar rescue packages across Europe. Still, one model won't fit all. "Some countries consider they don't have an insolvency problem, and are focusing more on providing guarantees to improve liquidity in the markets," says Antonio Ramirez, banking analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in London. (On Monday, for instance, Spain said it would guarantee new bank debt until...
...move [the ball] quickly, it’s easy to defend.”Harvard’s best chance of the half came in the 18th minute. Sophomore midfielder Gina Wideroff collected a pass from Hagner about eight yards from goal, but her left-footed effort went wide.Freshman midfielder Patricia Yau bid for goal twice in the 40th minute, but both her efforts were saved by Murphy. The Crimson entered the break up 1-0. The opening minutes of the second half were much the same as the first, with Harvard holding more of the possession, but only managing...
...young receivers stepped up in a big game.” With only slightly more experience behind him, sophomore Levi Richards—who had one carry and two receptions entering Saturday’s matchup—stepped up his game to contribute to the new-look effort. The sophomore notched three catches for 33 yards and a touchdown, the latter coming on a 21-yard nab after he beat the safety to free himself up in the end zone. At the end of the day, the newbies contributed 65 of Harvard’s 142 rushing yards...
...struggling to escape the undertow. Nearly two-thirds of the 1,098 people sampled in the national poll said they personally are going backward economically. Among these anxious voters, Obama had opened a huge lead - some 25 percentage points - over McCain. Obama appears to be succeeding in his effort to get past traditional racial politics. A majority of all voters agreed with the notion that Obama "isn't white or black; he's a little of both." Obama receives a favorable rating from more than 2 out of 3 economically stressed voters, far ahead of the ratings for McCain...
...earlier this year, Palin missed an opportunity to help the US mainland obtain billions of cubic feet of natural gas from Alaska's Cook Inlet. Her support of an effort by major energy producers to export the fuel to more lucrative markets in Asia came just as a facility that will provide the first practical way to bring the state's natural gas to the lower 48 states was set to open on the Baja coast in Mexico...