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...under, like Citibank and Bank of America, could fail but will stay alive in one form or another - through a bailout or government-backed sale, for example. But plenty of medium and smaller banks are going to disappear or be divvied up by creditors. And the longer Paulson's new capital-infusion plan takes to get up and running, the higher the likelihood of failure will...
...longer you are from graduation, the less competitive we are with each other,” he said. “You get friendly with people you weren’t friendly with earlier...
...Despite the danger of naming names, it may be increasingly difficult for politicians to refrain from public speculation. That's because it's no longer just companies and their investors who stand to lose in a corporate failure. Billions of taxpayer dollars are now flowing into the equation, and voters with no direct stakes at risk can reasonably claim a right to know what company the government may be buying into at their expense...
Perhaps we have. And if so, when the story is told, the moral might be that white and black begin to fade when the color that matters is green - the green of money we can no longer count...
...hate-crimes law. And if the very existence of a hate-crimes law is meant to placate minorities so they don't riot - a rather condescending notion - wouldn't it also exacerbate the anger among those close to the perpetrator, who would then be serving a longer sentence because of things he said during the crime...