Word: northerner
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...unclear where that balance of toughness and perspective originates. Hermann hints that it comes from a childhood spent watching her parents, both doctors, deal with the carnage of emergency rooms. Hermann grew up in Concarneau, a fishing port in northern Brittany where car crashes were routine on the rough coastal roads and regularly disrupted the family's evenings. "I was often in the corridors of hospitals for emergencies, and it's funny, but I got used to that sort of activity," she recalls. "Maybe it's why I am so comfortable in fashion, which is so quick and aggressive...
...legal guarantee they will see their savings again if their bank fails. Higher insurance caps - in the U.S., for instance, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation guarantees depositors up to $100,000 - would have done much to thin the lines. Keen to avoid the kind of panic triggered among Northern Rock's savers, the Treasury, the Bank of England and the FSA are now expected to overhaul the insurance system...
...future change in the limits is little consolation for Northern Rock now. Although the bank runs have stopped, it still faces formidable challenges. The credit crunch and dry interbank lending market will make it more difficult for Northern Rock to finance new mortgages at competitive rates. And with its share price still in tatters, it could soon find itself bought out by rivals. (Its stock slumped again on Sept. 19, amid rumors of an imminent takeover bid.) Are other British banks similarly vulnerable? Less so, since they never relied on the credit markets to the degree Northern Rock did. Even...
...dollar is doing a disappearing act. Alan Greenspan, after years of artful obfuscation, has suddenly discovered a terrifying gift for clarity, warning that inflation will rise and house prices will tumble. Stock market volatility has surged. And now, feeding fears that the contagion is spreading, the British bank Northern Rock has suffered a near-death experience...
...foment support for such violent radicalism--specifically, the lack of jobs. After consulting Middle East scholar Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, Bruder concluded that the people most resentful of the U.S. were those who were educated but lacked employment. The time he had spent doing business in Northern Ireland confirmed Bruder's notion that the path to peace and democracy lay not in military intervention or political overhaul but in gainful employment for the people. Jobs, he believed, would produce a middle class; jobs would buttress faltering economies; and jobs would give young people hope, income and something...