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Spiegelman’s lab had just received payment for the 2009 year when the Madoff scheme was exposed and thus was able to maintain research this year using Picower funds...
This time the setting is a Paris criminal court, which is examining a smear campaign allegedly overseen by Villepin in 2004. The President and his backers maintain that those behind the smear, which linked Sarkozy to illegal kickbacks from arms sales, not only set out to derail his presidential bid but continued to use evidence of wrongdoing even when they knew that it was fraudulent. Villepin and his supporters deny any such campaign, and say Sarkozy is using the trial - and his presidential power to influence it - to pursue a personal vendetta. (See pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy...
...cuts will likely garner some level of popular support and allow the Obama administration to maintain an image of being tough on corporate excess. But they do not represent a long-term solution to a potentially recurring problem. Without long-term and thoughtful policy supporting these pay cuts, what’s past will likely be prologue. There are real and persistent problems in the current system, and if the current administration is genuinely interested in securing America against economic declines of this magnitude in the future, it must engage the problem with long-term regulatory focus in mind...
...next day, doctors inserted an artificial pacemaker into Gomes’ heart. The devise sends electrical signals to the heart in order to regulate the heart rate and maintain constant blood pressure in the body. The pacemaker will hopefully help to relieve Gomes’ sensations of dizziness, according to Page, who also noted that the procedure went smoothly...
...cabinet, said it would focus on achieving a balance between promoting growth, rebalancing the economy and "managing inflation expectations." Nomura economist Mingchun Sun argues that because the State Council's statement emphasized "expectations," rather than inflation itself, the government doesn't believe inflation is a major risk and will maintain a loose monetary policy in the near future...