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...hour progresses, students initially reluctant to participate in the dance activities gradually start to loosen up. Uncoordinated, off beat, but happy, the students squeal and laugh as energetic dance music blares from Holder’s iPod player...
Washington's own Cuba time warp got a jolt as well. The oil discovery has renewed debate over whether a crude-thirsty U.S. should loosen its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba and let yanqui firms join the drilling, which is taking place fewer than 100 miles off U.S. shores. Despite the Bush Administration's hard line on Cuba, Republicans in Congress have proposed legislation to exempt Big Oil from the embargo. That clamor is sure to rise - especially if Barack Obama, who is more open to dialogue with Havana, becomes the next President - now that Cuba's state...
...seeing companies across a wide variety of sectors that are struggling," says Sam Rovit, who heads up Bain Corporate Renewal, the optimistically named restructuring division of Bain & Company. If the credit squeeze doesn't loosen up quickly, he expects a "tidal wave of bankruptcies among large companies...
...policymakers and economists as a necessary evil to keep the economy afloat. "There is a real threat of a serious recession," says Robert Bixby, head of the Concord Coalition, an organization dedicated to eliminating deficits and shoring up the federal budget. "So it's appropriate in those circumstances to loosen fiscal policy, so long as it is done on a targeted and temporary basis...
...That show of decisive European unity was all the more important in the wake of Saturday's G7 meeting in Washington, where leaders said government intervention would be taken in all the world's major economies to prevent major banking failures and loosen frozen credit. It all proved enough for markets to take heart again, at least for now. By mid-morning, London's FTSE 100 was up 6%, Paris' CAC 40 rose 6.68%, and Frankfurt's DAX jumped 6.25% - a remarkable turn-around from last week's battering that ended Friday with losses of 7% to nearly 9%. Most...