Word: feds
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...answer may be pulled from the three figures about the economy which have the most bearing on how whether recession is beginning to reverse or not. The first is access to credit. To the horror of members of Congress and the governors of the Fed, The Wall Street Journal came out with an analysis showing that the banks which received TARP funds are lending less now than they were before the facility was created as the handiwork of Henry Paulson...
...instance, when members of the Westboro Baptist Church appeared in Cambridge last month, almost 400 protestors greeted them. The students who confronted the WBC had the best of intentions: They meant to show their opposition to a despicable group. Nevertheless, the WBC fed off the publicity like a cancer. It should have been ignored. But these students’ desire to show that they were better than these bigots proved too powerful to ignore...
...like Belize and Bahrain, which further helps the ships skirt international regulations and evade censure from their home countries. Tsuma Charo of the Nairobi-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme, which monitors Somali pirate attacks and liaises with the hostage takers and the captured crews, says "illegal trawling has fed the piracy problem." In the early days of Somali piracy, those who seized trawlers without licenses could count on a quick ransom payment, since the boat owners and companies backing those vessels didn't want to draw attention to their violation of international maritime law. This, Charo reckons, allowed...
...Crimson came out strong with the first goal of the opening period when junior attacker Travis Burr fed the ball to sophomore attacker Dean Gibbons on the right wing. where he finished in the top right corner of the net from 10 yards away...
...Krista Mahr's article on rich states renting agricultural land in developing states presents a thorny question: Can the hungry be a provider to the well-fed? Let's take the case of the Philippines, my homeland. Most Filipino farmers are poor and neglected. The Department of Agrarian Reform can't even protect their rights against greedy hacienda owners. Without sufficient safeguards, food-security agreements might only aggravate the lot of farmers and their families from Sudan to Indonesia. Remember: the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Dennard Dacumos, Manila...