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...model for nationalizations could prove valuable in the months ahead. The government is in the process of stress-testing the nation's largest banks as part of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plan to fix the ailing banking sector. And many think the outcome of those tests could lead to more takeovers. So far, Geithner and other officials have denied they are interested in running banks. But in the past few weeks, a number of prominent Republicans and fiscal conservatives, most notably former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and Senator Lindsey Graham, have joined those who think the government should...
...fail to act, resulting in a chaotic and (in both senses) dirty struggle for power. Desperate for a solution, Aya (Czech actress Kristýna Malérová), the town’s youngest, and most insightful, woman suggests a sex strike, which would force the men to fix the pipe and allow their wives to finally experience the sway and bargaining potential they’ve gained.As far-fetched—as the title suggests—as this premise may seem, it was actually inspired by a true story. In 2001, Helmer was flipping through his daily...
Confident of my abilities to sort this out or at least find the right person to fix the problem, I made some calls to the company. I got nowhere. That's when I realized that the national crisis I'd written so much about had just hit home...
...slumped, according to McCourt. "It became clear to the board of the American Cancer Society that unless we got people insured, we were not going to be able to reduce [cancer] incidence and mortality in this nation," says Christy Schmidt, senior policy director of the ACS. "If you can fix the system for cancer patients, we believe you can fix it for everybody...
...thumbtacks, Ayman did not think an electronics store on a street of ancient booksellers was strange. "The people who read things need to print," he explains, "so I opened a shop to complete the picture." Ayman does not read himself, he tells me, except manuals for copy machines. Fixing them is his hobby, though he bemoans the current models. "Now all the copy machines are very commercial. You used to be able to fix the old ones yourself...