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...maximum of the whole season, senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti was forced to look to new faces and new plays to get the job done offensively against a solid Cornell defense—the Big Red entered Saturday’s matchup leading the league and second in the nation in tackles for loss and was limiting rushing attacks to 37 yards per game. Pizzotti found early help from freshman Adam Chrissis who made his catches count, taking his first collegiate grab—a screen pass on a Big Red blitz—67 yards to the end zone...
...plans, but they had the advantage of being easily understood in a world full of mysterious catastrophes. Obama proposed tax breaks for businesses that create new jobs, a freeze on foreclosures by banks that participate in the government's rescue program and a public-works fund to rebuild the nation's infrastructure while keeping people employed. He embraced McCain's proposal to suspend the rule that would require retirees to start liquidating their 401(k) holdings at the bottom of the stock-market crash. And he went a step further, proposing that Americans should be able to withdraw some...
...group plan aims at freeing up credit markets by underwriting loans banks make to one another - activity that has virtually halted amid general suspicion about borrowers' ability to reimburse funds - and resume the lending to companies and consumers necessary for economic growth. The euro group package will also allow national governments to buy preferred shares through capital injections to save swamped banks from failing, and allowing those in less perilous condition to fully sanitize their finances and return to normal operation. As such, the euro group plan was largely inspired by the rescue package British Prime Minister Gordon Brown rolled...
...same moment Iceland, a NATO member and until very recently a prosperous Western nation, seemed ready to bite the dust in the global financial crisis, a cavalry rode to the rescue, just as it does in the movies. Except the cavalry in this case came from an unexpected direction: Russia...
...their infinite wisdom, European governments have now decided that letting the state effectively get control of ailing banks is the way out the current financial mess. But the French government really messed up the last time it had control of a chunk of the nation's banking system. That was when President Francois Mitterrand nationalized banks in the 1980s. In fact, for a good part of the 1990s, the French budget was knocked sideways because of the losses incurred at just one state-run bank, Credit Lyonnais. The German state's track record in banking isn't much better. Regional...