Word: holdings
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...press conference, Obama thanked most of the major players for their let's-all-take-our-medicine determination, but he criticized a group of financial firms - the holdouts - for their unpatriotic greed. "While many stakeholders made sacrifices," Obama said, "a group of investment firms and hedge funds decided to hold out for the prospect of an unjustified taxpayer-funded bailout." And then he added, "I do not stand with them...
...shortens the length of time he or she sheds virus at all. Taking this into account, Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in London has used mathematical modeling to show that antivirals would help slow the spread of a bird flu virus originating in Asia. While the model should hold true for a swine flu arising in Central America, as well, no one knows for sure as the drugs have never been used to tackle an epidemic or pandemic before. (See pictures of bird...
...would be sold through URC. According to URC Executive Manager Bob Simha, the former director of planning at MIT, 38 people signed purchase and sale contracts and submitted their initial deposits. He said that they have received more than 60 other inquiries, but further contracts have been put on hold. In the past year, plaintiff and MIT President Emeritus Paul E. Gray said that the developers had altered their plans and that communication between the developers and URC has broken down. In a meeting with URC last November, the developers voiced their desire to convert the remaining condominiums into rentals...
...Democratic primary, Sestak sounded a curiously cautious note in welcoming him, saying voters need to understand why the longtime Republican chose to switch at this particular moment. "If he were not running for re-election, would he have done this change? In short, is it worth any cost to hold on to one's job? Those questions need to be assessed by the citizenry," he told TIME. (See pictures of Obama's first 100 days in office...
Parsi's concern is that Iran will demand that Obama grant a major concession as an incentive to negotiate, ironically adopting the Bush Administration's policy of setting preconditions for talks. What may be holding the regime back, Parsi says, is a fear of failure. If Tehran snubs Obama's olive branch, it will come under domestic and international pressure amid rising calls for more sanctions. But, Parsi says, the Iranians may worry that if they enter talks that then collapse, either because Obama was setting a trap or because he couldn't hold his part of the bargain, that...