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...like AIG, Freddie has had to go back to the government a number of times with cup in hand. The mortgage giant has already received $14 billion in government aid. After a fourth-quarter loss of $24 billion, the company said it needed an additional $31 billion from the government to keep the lights...
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has a problem. On the one hand, he has to act to save the banks if he's going to start credit flowing and get the U.S. economy back on track. On the other hand, doing so makes him and his bosses look bad. Americans are against bailing out the banks by more than 2 to 1 in some polls. Worse, the banks themselves are deeply mistrustful of anything government might force on them. The head of Wells Fargo told Bloomberg on Monday that a key part of Geithner's plan, the so-called stress test...
...Hand it to Dell, probably the worst run of the large global PC companies to have bad timing...
...money,” he said.Despite these limitations, the selection process is straightforward. The fun czar, in conjunction with the CEB, submits a budget and list of possible dates to a booking company, Pretty Polly Productions, which then sends back a list of possible artists. With the list in hand, the CEB and the HCC work in conjunction to choose and book the artists; though the CEB controls the budget and thus technically has the last word, there is usually little friction between the two organizations.But narrowing down this list is still a tough process. Artists tend to significantly raise...
...Elior claims says these ancient historians, namely Philo and Pliny the Elder, either borrowed from each other or retailed second-hand stories as fact. "Pliny the Elder describes the Essenes as 'choosing the company of date palms' beside the Dead Sea. We know Pliny was a great reader, but he probably never visited Israel," she says...