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...streets and collected signatures, succeeding in placing a measure on Tuesday's ballot that would have put an end to her licentious neighbor's shenanigans. Thompson campaigned for her measure heavily, arguing that the sight of a topless woman constituted a public health hazard as it might dangerously distract passing drivers...
...having their land auctioned a few years ago? Why isn't the Fed rescuing women who are paid less than men for the same work? And why isn't the Fed saving American children living in poverty? The risk of saving this hedge fund has been called a "moral hazard." Hell, I'd call it a "moral outrage." ROBERT MARRONE Fair Oaks, Calif...
...land are a growing majority, and that's posing a major health hazard. More than half the U.S. population is overweight, with nearly one third clinically obese -- a condition that kills 300,000 each year, the American Dietetic Association was told Monday. Most alarming is the rate of obesity among the nation's children, which has quadrupled to 20 percent over the past 30 years. The reasons? "TV wasn't as ubiquitous then as it is now," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. "Kids are a lot less active now than they were 30 years...
Washington and Wall Street buzzed last week with outraged talk of "moral hazard," and for once it had nothing to do with Bill Clinton's sex life. Instead people were talking about the danger created when government backing for private lenders encourages them to take bigger risks--in search of bigger rewards. That danger was demonstrated in dramatic fashion when the Federal Reserve had to engineer the rescue of Long Term Capital Management, a high-flying hedge fund that as recently as August controlled high-risk, global investments worth more than $120 billion--enough...
...plans to hold hearings in the next week or two: "The question that remains for the economy is what other risk exists in the hedge-fund and derivatives industries." The answer, of course, is of vital interest to U.S. taxpayers as well as to investors. Talk of "moral hazard" will thus remain a hot issue from Washington to Wall Street and Main Street...