Word: moment
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...exchanges, Hensarling wanted to know if Geithner thought the auto companies were banks. Geithner said under the definitions of TARP, he would call auto manufactures banks. "So would you call AT&T and American Airlines banks?" Hensarling asked. Geithner said no, and then clarified that at least at this moment he would not call AT&T or American Airlines banks. When asked about AIG, Geithner said the government didn't legally have the option to pay less than 100 cents on the dollar to its counterparties. In the past year, many people have criticized Geithner and former secretary Henry Paulson...
...makes you think about how to make the most out of what you’ve got and not to be complacent about resources. It’s no question that it’s a difficult time, but I try to look at the opportunity within this economic moment and learn from...
...versions of a flapper’s little black dress. Despite the rapid flux of the industry, R.J. Cutler ’83—director and executive producer of “The September Issue”—has managed to capture and eternalize an iconic moment in fashion history, and with it, an intimate look at the foremost fashionista of past 20 years. Amidst fashion’s pop cultural boom, awash with reality television shows and mediocre celebrity clothing lines, Cutler managed to wriggle his way into the offices of Vogue—the last...
...remember the exact moment when I opened my inbox at an Internet café in Nairobi to see a forwarded e-mail from Marilyn Hausammann, Vice President for Human Resources at Harvard. Painstakingly slow, the page loaded with Hausammann’s announcement of the impending elimination of 275 staff positions. I had been in Kenya for only two weeks, and everything about the thickness of the air, the dirt under my fingernails, and stickiness of the keyboard reminded me of how many thousands of miles I was away from Harvard. I felt disempowered and unable to voice my opinion...
...Potter's moment of decision came one evening earlier this year when he was watching MSNBC's Chris Matthews talk about how "the cosmos has shifted" this time around, that the health-insurance industry was at the negotiating table and on board with reform. Potter thought to himself, "Oh, jeez, Chris. Give me a break." Potter, who retired from Cigna in May 2008 after he became disillusioned with the for-profit health-insurance industry, decided to end his silence. (Potter's conversion was prompted in part by the 2007 case of 17-year-old Natalie Sarkisyan, who died shortly after...