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...unfortunate, to say the least, that one of the first actions of Britain's present Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1997, was to remove the task of bank supervision from the Bank of England and entrust it to the agency responsible for the regulation of U.K. financial markets - perhaps under the erroneous belief that financial regulation and bank supervision were much the same thing. In fact, they are fundamentally different. In any event, although Northern Rock was pursuing a conspicuously high-risk business strategy, which enabled it to increase its share...
...Handa was heavily in debt and apparently took off rather than facing the music,” says Susan Morgan, the spokesperson for The Gordon Company, another one of the firms involved in the deal...
...Other critics responded that Shariah compromises true British values. The Labour government even released an absurd statement reiterating the Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s opinion that “British law should apply in this country, based on British values.” The government introduced a package of measures designed to define what it means to be British last summer, including a definition of British citizenship, formulation of a “bill of rights and duties” for citizens—similar to a constitution—and even notions...
...freshmen Vito Cannavo and Daniel Chenoweth also captured second place with a season-best IC4A qualifying time of 7:46.22. Chenoweth also finished the mile in a personal-best time of 4:11.25 to place second and qualify him for the IC4A event. The Crimson returns to Gordon Track next Sunday for the USATF New England Championships before heading to Cornell for the Heptagonal Championships, which are an important opportunity for both the men and women to make marks in the Ivies before the start of the outdoor season. “Our goal is always to place...
...Brown, who was once so keen to crow about a successful decade spent steering the British economy, the turnabout is hard to stomach. Opposition pols have been keen to make hay. "We will not back nationalization," Tory Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said. "We will not help Gordon Brown take this country back to the 1970s." While that's unlikely to happen - it's been years since Labour could pretend to be a Socialist party - Brown's government will be hoping the same decade offers a useful precedent. When Rolls-Royce was on the brink of collapse in 1971, Osborne...