Word: interested
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...affected, according to KPMG, three times the amount in 2007. While some of that increase can be put down to wrongdoing prompted by the financial crisis, ongoing fraud uncovered as a result of the recession also played its part. "Companies are restructuring, revising their strategies, trying to preserve their interest, their cash, their asset position," says Patel. "And because of looking at their businesses, they're starting to find more fraud." So, too, are company liquidators. With insolvencies among U.K. companies rising amid the downturn, disqualification proceedings against the firms' directors for fraud or theft rose 72% in the year...
...spend, and whether they pay their bills for other credit cards, their car payments, and mortgages. The Senate recently passed a "Credit Card Holders Bill of Rights" that will make it more difficult for lenders to take personal financial information and decrease people's credit lines or raise their interest rates. The Bill of Rights will make most of the payment tracking software useless. The banks that bought it will have to write it off. They also have to face the prospect that people who are poor credit risks can run up tremendous sums on their cards, expose the lender...
...Tuesday - her first open media event since last Thursday's disastrous press conference on what the CIA may or may not have briefed her about regarding its interrogation techniques - she was met by a wall of dozens of cameras. There's always been a lot of media interest in the first female Speaker, but Pelosi is learning the hard way that there's a difference between receiving attention for being a pioneer and receiving attention for fouling...
...stop young people from joining the ranks of cartel foot soldiers. "Today, the violence in the cities needs a program of national reconciliation. There needs to be a reconstruction of villages and ranches to make them self-sufficient. There needs to be assembly plants and credit at low interest, incentives for cattle and schools," he wrote. "Violence can be fought with jobs ... We must remember that in the mountains of Mexico, the people are forgotten ... There are no medical clinics, roads or security. Only repression." (Read about the drug war on the U.S.-Mexican frontier...
...points and the site will map the best route for you. If you don't like the suggested route, or you want to take a side trip, you can click and drag the route shown on the map, and the directions recalibrate themselves. TripTik also notes points of interest, restaurants, hotels and gas stations along your route...