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...block section of Mass. Ave. was closed as heavy smoke, produced when grease in the hood of the stove caught fire, filled the streets...
...block section of Mass. Ave. was closed as heavy smoke caused by grease in the hood of the stove filled the streets...
...back to be beginning, to being a do-nothing. At this point, there is a greater risk from mass redemptions - like a run on the bank - than there is from a rash of money funds declaring that their assets have gone bad. Money market funds are designed to be low risk, and by law are allowed to invest only in government bonds, certificates of deposit, short-term IOUs issued by companies, and other highly liquid securities - though, unlike the similarly named "money market deposit accounts" found at many banks, they're not FDIC-insured...
Community activists say a mass opt-out by landlords would leave many poor people with only the alternative of receiving HUD vouchers to help pay their rents. While the voucher system has advantages, the current wait to qualify for it is already extremely long. And while renters can try to use the vouchers to pay for the housing they currently occupy, landlords are not required to accept them...
...push through a single major policy initiative in the face of opposition from his ostensible governing partners in the conservative People's Party, which was looking for any excuse to break up the marriage. The final straw appears to have been Gusenbauer's promise, in a letter to a mass-market tabloid, that the Social Democrats would not approve any future E.U. treaty amendments without a popular referendum, a measure that the pro-E.U. conservatives said they could not accept. The latest polls say that a paltry 15% of Austrians want to see another grand coalition after this month...