Word: michell
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...including making large cuts in interest rates, to restart credit creation and prevent further damage to the economy. A decade ago, the world also looked to Washington - and, specifically, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - for deliverance from the financial turbulence. This was immortalized in a photograph of IMF chief Michel Camdessus peering over the shoulder of then Indonesian President Suharto, as the latter signed his country's agreement to receive IMF loans...
...first network to teach viewers to watch this way. Quick-cut and compressed, music videos were not just a new way of selling music; they changed TV series (the pitch for Miami Vice was simply "MTV cops") and influenced movies (graduating directors like Spike Jonze, David Fincher and Michel Gondry). The best clips from MTV's all-video '80s heyday--from Michael Jackson to Talking Heads--capture the power of the music rather than replace it. MTV taught us to see with our ears and listen with our eyes...
...everyone was won over by the Sarko Show, nor the policies it sought to introduce. Socialist Party economic expert and former Economy and Finance Minister Michel Sapin described the speech as big on generalities but short on detail. "This speech lacked everything we were waiting: for concrete and specific answers to the grave problems of the French economy," Sapin told French television. Like other critics of Sarkozy's performance, Sapin noted the nearly $15 billion in tax cuts already passed by the President has further bloated France's staggering public debt without finding new revenues to offset the cost. Meanwhile...
...Khoury's victory is a reflection of the popularity of his patron, Michel Aoun, a charismatic and enigmatic former general who heads the country's largest Christian political party, the Free Patriotic Movement. Aoun's popularity confounds any attempt to read Lebanon as a battlefield in a "clash of civilizations," because he and his party are openly allied with Hizballah, the Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim political party and anti-Israeli militia that leads the opposition...
During the dotcom crash, few Web banks survived, but ING Direct persevered. "When we were making all those big investments without too much return, I had to answer a lot of questions," says Michel Tilmant, who chairs the executive board of parent company ING in Amsterdam. But ING was committed to Kuhlmann and the ING Direct vision and spent the money to continue...