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...produce an action plan, but it was light on specifics; all member countries will inject capital into banks as needed (Britain has already committed to doing so), but they didn't announce amounts or timing. It was hardly the explicit, "show us the money" announcement many investors hoped for. Similarly, the G-7 pledged to unfreeze credit markets but didn't say how or mention interbank guarantees...
...gains are tentative. Light trading volume in Hong Kong suggests that investors are holding back ahead of Wall Street's reaction to bailout plans. During an Oct. 10 meeting of G-7 finance ministers, European central bankers suggested they would follow Britain's lead by buying stakes in struggling banks and underwriting interbank loans. The U.S. Federal Reserve is also finalizing a plan to recapitalize the nation's bank in order to loosen frozen credit markets...
Everyone involved in the event, from the ushers to the light technicians, volunteered...
...Nonetheless, McCain has argued on the campaign trail that Obama should still be condemned for his state votes, in light of the federal vote. "Congress unanimously passed a federal law to require medical care for babies who survive abortions - living, breathing babies whom Senator Obama described as 'previable,' " McCain said in an August radio address. "This merciful law was called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Illinois had a version of the same law, and Obama voted against...
...first named female saint from India; and Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán, a pious laywoman from Ecuador who died in 1869. In the Catholic faith, only God can make a saint; these four are among those who "have emerged as individuals who can light the way ahead," as the Modern Catholic Encyclopedia puts it. But the means by which these saints are identified - and by whom - has varied over the history of the church...