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Iran is Popeye and the United States is Popeye’s larger adversary Bluto, Pegahi said...
...terms with how to manage. Our weaknesses 25 years ago led to strength. We're much stronger as a result of our struggles," says Mike Anselmo, regional manager of PNC Financial, a dominant bank in the area. Anselmo's firm is a case in point. Unlike so many larger banks that got tangled in the subprime scam, PNC Financial avoided exposure to derivatives or combustible mortgages. Now PNC is building the first office tower to go up in downtown Pittsburgh in 20 years. There's also a new hockey arena being built, as well as a casino and even some...
...grand but instead focused on something quirky and interesting. But there were exceptions. Sharif Abdunnur’s film “Hot Summer in Beirut,” which dealt with the 2006 Lebanon War, garnered some of the loudest applause, demonstrating that it is possible to tackle larger issues within the limitations of the format. Lumen Eclipse’s aim is to “bring art to the streets,” according to Kate H. Hale, the project’s program director. This has previously taken the form of two video screens that show...
...been at it ever since. “I have spent my life trying to express history in a broad, popular way.” Burns emphasized that he tries to liven up the history that can often be dismissed as dead or boring by exploring the larger meaning and implications behind it. “I think that the excavation of the dry dates and facts have really little meaning,” said Burns. “Why you really want to mine the past for those artifacts is if they can suggest something bigger than...
...even if the credit markets do return to some semblance of normalcy, there is still the larger issue: for states and cities, as with the rest of America, the credit crisis has tumbled into the real economy. Before the long-simmering credit crunch kicked into high gear in mid-September, municipalities were already facing strong headwinds. In a survey of 319 city finance officers conducted from April to June, the National League of Cities found that 64% of respondents said their cities were less able to meet fiscal needs than in 2007. Cities get 28% of their funding from property...