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...these bonds that the government's aggregator bank will have to deal with first. In a November survey officers at the nation's largest banks said CDOs were among the assets they would most like to sell should the government begin buying troubled bonds...
...floor, and Brown had committed 15 turnovers. [Brown] took a lot of chances,” Delaney-Smith said. “They just went for a lot of things and missed.” The Crimson scored the first eight points out of the locker room, reaching its largest lead of the game (27) on a jumper from sophomore forward Claire Wheeler with 16:20 to go in the game. —Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...
...FARC, then one of the world's largest and fiercest insurgencies, started targeting Colombian senators, governors and other power brokers, hoping to swap them for imprisoned guerrillas. The rebels also demanded a demilitarized zone to negotiate prisoner exchanges with government envoys. But conservative President Alvaro Uribe, who took office in 2002, refused to play along. With strong U.S. backing, he beefed up Colombia's once dysfunctional military and started delivering body blows to the FARC. Last year was the guerrillas' most disastrous year ever. The rebels lost three of their top seven commanders (two were killed, one died...
...just days after Nath's warning, India is being accused of raising trade tensions between the world's two largest emerging economies by imposing a temporary ban on imports of Chinese-made toys. The six-month ban was announced Jan. 23 by the Indian Directorate-General of Foreign Trade, which issued a two-sentence notification saying the restriction was being made "in public interest." Today, two weeks after the announcement, Nath finally spoke up on the matter, saying that India's step is WTO-compatible, and has been taken to ensure public safety. "The decision to ban was taken...
...favor. In 2004, when bilateral trade was $13.4 billion, the trade balance was in India's favor to the tune of $1.7 billion. But by 2006, India's trade balance had swung to a deficit of $4.12 billion, which grew to $16 billion last year. China is India's largest trading partner...