Word: failed
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Unlike the hearings last month, though, when Congress presented a nearly united, hostile front against the Big Three, the fight Thursday was not so much over whether Washington should let them fail; almost all the witnesses and lawmakers agreed that would be like "playing Russian roulette with the economy," as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd put it. But that didn't mean there was anything like a consensus on how to handle the urgent request for a total of $34 billion in bridge loans - $7 billion for Chrysler, $9 billion for Ford and $18 billion for GM. Democrats...
...even as oil prices soared and given its union unsustainably generous deals on salary and benefits. "I don't believe this is a good idea, to take $25 billion and give it to the three major car companies, which I think have a business plan that's doomed to fail," Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, told Fox News Sunday, adding that Republican members are not wild about the Democrats' demand that the Big Three present their plans to Congress. "The idea that you would take three failed car companies, bring [a plan] to 535 members of Congress...
...like the feeling of your parents breaking up when banks fail. It makes you feel insecure.' ?Anya Hindmarch...
...community. Even with the SFJB in use, general issues with the Ad Board’s structure must continue to be addressed by the Ad Board Review Committee. Proponents of the current Ad Board system maintain that its educational nature differentiates it from a traditional judicial body, yet they fail to recognize that the resources available to students, no matter how generous, are meaningless unless students are properly appraised of these “rights”—something difficult to ensure when the primary source of information, Resident Deans, are often the very same individuals who inform...
Part of the defensive response on the part of the speakers is that they have had a history of interacting with people who are offended to be confused with others of their race. This indignation on the listener’s part is also misplaced. People of all races fail at identifying ethnic minorities. When I was traveling in Tanzania last summer, my two Caucasian traveling companions, a redhead and a brunette, were constantly frustrated that many Tanzanians couldn’t differentiate between them. They didn’t understand that the marker of hair color was overlooked...