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...banks attracted by their high interest rates. Amidst the banking run that immediately followed, the British government transferred authority over an Icelandic subsidiary in the UK, and then sold it to the Dutch firm ING. Because Landsbanki had over 300,000 British depositors through its Icebank subsidiary, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government used anti-terrorist legislation to freeze Icelandic assets in the UK, including property of the Icelandic Central Bank. Just a few days later, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling added fuel to the fire when he said on BBC Radio that the Icelandic Finance minister...
...have become a significant employer in the region. But gas prices (despite the recent declines, at one point last week they were the highest in the country) and home economics are driving down attendance at the tracks . "It's a scary time right now," four-time NASCAR champ Jeff Gordon told the Associated Press. "We see strong teams struggling to get sponsorship...
...goal at the Tigers’ six, turning a possible interception into a huge gain.“It just came off my hand a little funny, and Matt just went up and made a great play,” Pizzotti said.Two plays later, sophomore running back Gino Gordon burst through the line for a 6-yard touchdown run, and the Crimson secured a 24-20 lead.“The line opened up a wide hole, and I saw it and I ran through it,” Gordon said. “You couldn?...
...well,” senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti said. “[They] played very physical, it was tough to run the ball. They made us kind of be one-dimensional.” Part of the problem has been the loss of junior Cheng Ho and sophomore Gino Gordon to injuries over the last couple of weeks. Gordon returned this week and received more carries for more success as the game wore on Saturday, including the game-sealing touchdown run. The Crimson entered the contest with the second-best rushing offense in an admittedly pass-happy Ivy League...
...many leaders-particularly French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown-want to go beyond that activity and place the IMF at the center of a reformed, unified, and better-regulated global finance system. Sarkozy has gone so far as to call for the "moralization of finance markets" and "re-foundation of capitalism". Though the most rabid adepts of laissez-faire systems like the U.S. are expected to rebuff such efforts to impose international strictures, Strauss-Kahn's profile as a respected economist and market-friendly leftist leaves him in a rare spot: The head of an international...