Word: holding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...make its intentions clear enough, earlier this year Citigroup publicly identified a number of businesses that it would like to get rid of. Among those that are still left are its insurance division Primerica and a home-loan business, CitiMortgage. At the time, Citi said it would like to hold on to much of its retail and corporate bank. A Citi spokesperson says that continues to be the bank's plan. In July, CEO Vikram Pandit told financial-news outlet Bloomberg that the bank is "moving extremely fast" on asset sales. He said the bank had already shrunk its assets...
...conceived and out of touch. Rogers warned his listeners against a declining U.S. dollar; Daley said the U.S. consumer, who has been the world's most important, was spent as an economic force. The severity of the criticism became so uncomfortable that one Chinese audience member took hold of a microphone and said: "You don't have to say bad things about the United States...
...will keep expanding through the pre-Halloween fright season, trying to hold off other horror pictures - The Stepfather, Saw VI, The House of the Devil and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - at least until the last weekend of October. That's when we get the one back-from-the dead movie that won't be stopped: Michael Jackson's This...
...fallout. At the moment, after a largely successful sweep of the Taliban who dominated the Swat Valley in the northwest, army morale is cresting. Revulsion against the militants' brutality has also sent antimilitant sentiment to an all-time high. But it remains to be seen whether that resolve will hold up in the face of expected troop losses and further bombing attacks across the northwest and in major cities; security is being beefed up outside government buildings, Western targets and civilian areas. There is also fear that moving against the militants in one area may simply prompt them to relocate...
...wheelers and dealers who drove the financial system into a ditch leaves the rest of us wondering who has our back, has always shown great promise, said the right things, affirmed every time he opens his mouth that he understands the fears we face and the hopes we hold. But he presides over a capital whose day-to-day functioning has become part travesty, part tragedy; wasteful, blind, vain, petty, where even the best-intentioned reformers measure their progress with teaspoons. There comes a time when a President needs to take a real risk - and putting his prestige...