Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...month, they had let investment bank Lehman Brothers slide into oblivion and then ushered another, Merrill Lynch, into the arms of Bank of America. Just the night before, the trio had wrapped up a deal to rescue insurance giant American International Group and gone to bed praying it would halt the panic and worrying it wouldn...
...Clemence Charras, a French visiting student in Leverett House, said “It was very interesting how many Americans’ questions focused on the fragility of the Union.” Barroso responded by noting that only the European Union’s proposal was able to halt the current violence. Contrasting the E.U. diplomatic method with America’s singular voice, he cautioned, “It is not because you are one that you are right.” For Eleonore V. Peyrat, another visiting French student, Barroso’s response was a necessary...
...halt this implosion, somebody has to leverage up, not down, and acquire assets, not sell them. The government is the institution in by far the best position to do so. The Federal Reserve System can play this role on a short-term basis - halting panics by lending dollars in exchange for momentarily hard-to-sell assets, as it did early Thursday morning. But while the exigencies of the moment have led it to make longer-term investments in Bear Stearns and now AIG, it's widely agreed that this is bad policy. "The Fed is the guardian of the currency...
...maids, construction workers, and gardeners, doing work that native-born Americans are overqualified for or are unwilling to do. Though racists often deride these workers as “lazy,”in fact, they toil long hours for little pay. Without them, construction would grind to a halt (since 28 percent of construction workers are foreign-born) , and lettuce would cost 15 dollars a head. It is ignorant to underestimate the impact these workers have on America’s economic health. Doubtlessly, Americans have legitimate concerns about the harmful economic effects of illegal immigration. Undocumented aliens...
...their wrath on the government, not on the militants who are fighting it. "We are sandwiched between security forces and the Taliban," says Fazl Sadiq, 30, who is staying in a camp. He claims that the air strikes have killed more civilians than militants. "If the government does not halt its indiscriminate killing, then one day I will also join the Taliban to take revenge...