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...because for years Washington looked the other way. The company befriended politicians with campaign cash - $9.3 million divided evenly between Democrats and Republicans from 1990 to 2008, the Center for Responsive Politics reported. And it spent more than $70 million to lobby them over the past decade, escaping the kind of regulation that might have prevented the current crisis...
...Lastly, the Obama Administration will need perhaps $750 billion in new funding merely to stabilize U.S. banks, which it hopes will be enough to ease the credit markets, stimulate lending and get the economy moving again. There's no telling what kind of political wrangling will happen over that, but one thing seems certain: if you are an executive of a bank that gets federal money, it wouldn't be a smart idea to count on a bonus...
...coming back. Not the kind of M&A that is about firing but the kind where the excuse for the buyout is more positive than layoffs. And, the impetus for the move up in M&A activity is probably that the stock market has been going higher recently...
...When we find prostate cancer," says Dr. Gerald Andriole of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., who participated in the study, "we don't know if it's a killer or a toothless lion - the kind of cancer men will die with...
...Looking at the advances in genetic profiling," says Andriole, "I think this kind of advance is just around the corner. But is it two years, five years? We're not sure...