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...some inner life beyond his meanness; and that June - her arms folded in disapproval, like a stern nun concealing a ruler in her sleeves - didn't have to endure the standard redemption process of being enlightened, converted, broken. But this is a parable, and the people in it are meant to signify. The more rigid the limitations, the more room most of the actors have to tunnel through convention into epiphany...
...Dabbagh and his backers insist they're not trying to out-Dubai Dubai--or anybody else--and that the new cities are meant to solve pressing economic and demographic problems: with 60% of its population under the age of 25, Saudi Arabia needs to create millions of jobs and homes for young people who will come of age in the next five years. This "youth bulge" will create a demand for 6 million residential units in the next 12 years; that's a million more units than were built in the past 60 years. "When you have demand on that...
...that would get the money flowing to the big banks but would also generate enough in insurance premiums to protect the FDIC and thus the individual deposits that millions of Americans think of as safe. Paulson had asked the FDIC to stand behind loans between banks. To Bair, that meant a whole new category of risks on her ledger and the prospect of greater FDIC payouts if the big banks cratered. In the end, Paulson and Geithner agreed to Bair's demand for higher insurance fees from banks getting federal bailout money; Bair agreed to guarantee the interbank lending...
...rate that never went below 14% for the remainder of the decade. No unemployment insurance backstopped laid-off workers or kept communities going when paychecks disappeared. Given the demography of a workforce in which scarcely any married women toiled for wages, a 25% unemployment rate effectively meant that nearly 1 in 4 households had no income...
...database is meant to address this age-old a cappella quandary. It’s unclear how exactly such disputes were solved before the database existed, but in this particular case, the Opportunes won—“Change in My Life” has been one of their signature songs for over a decade...