Word: hold
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...Wall Street Journal suggests that B of A may hold a special place in the government's heart because it bought Countrywide and Merrill Lynch at times when a public bailout of those companies could have caused the credit system angina. With Congress and watchdog agencies watching how the Treasury and Fed are using their thinning cash reserves, B of A will not be getting any sympathy or special dispensations from regulators...
...Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican and another long-term member of the committee, "The reason it won't come up is because he has been a member of the committee for a long period of time, and he's showed a great deal of impartiality. And he doesn't hold any of those views." Even the committee's chairman, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, welcomed Sessions: "I get along well with him. I've always kept my word to him and he's always kept his word to me, and that's the most important thing...
Think of Kyoto and you think of ryokan. But for visitors who want an alternative to the traditional inns, while still retaining a sense of the city's celebrated history, refurbished local machiya hold plenty of promise. Most of these simple wooden merchant homes, dating back to Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912), have been demolished or become dilapidated, but Iori, a conservation company founded by author and Japanologist Alex Kerr, is working to save those that remain. It currently has 10 fully refurbished properties available, ranging from a tiny intimate house sleeping two to a rambling mansion...
...thousands of buyers could have to wait more than a year before their cars are built. The company has committed to producing cars for the first 100,000 owners, who will be selected through a lottery, by the end of 2010. The rest of the buyers are on indefinite hold. They can cancel their bookings and get their money back. Those who choose to stay in line will be paid interest on their deposits by Tata Motors while they wait...
...last term, Ibarretxe expended a good deal - some critics would say all - of his political capital in an ill-fated attempt to hold a referendum on independence for the Basque country. That effort was quashed by the Spanish parliament, which judged it unconstitutional. But the Socialist victory does not necessarily mean that Basque society as a whole is becoming less nationalist. According to polls conducted by Euskobarometro, the percentage of Basques who desire independence has hovered around 30% - sometimes rising a few points, sometimes falling - since...