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...were aware the U.K.'s industry-funded Financial Services Compensation Scheme only guaranteed deposits up to around $63,000; in the U.S., savers can expect to get back as much as $100,000 should their bank go under. The British scheme, King said, was in desperate need of an overhaul...
...reaching higher to bring their customers all things unattainable, Hall points to the one commodity everyone finds out of reach. "Time," says Hall, who in the '80s built out of nearly nothing what became the store's thriving leisure department. To that end, she has overseen a technology overhaul that will provide sales associates with daily alerts about the lives of their customers, whose numbers rank in archived thousands. Anniversary coming up? The associate knows to call the husband and what gifts to suggest for his wife. Thanks to this kind of signature service, Neiman's associates become, to many...
...offense is in desperate need of an overhaul after scoring just 14.7 points per game and ranking last or next to last in the Ivies in every major statistical category last year. Senior Tom Bennewitz has taken over starting quarterback duties after the departure of leading passer and rusher Mike Fritz. Two All-Ivy cornerbacks return in Chris Blanco and John Manning from a unit ranked fourth in pass defense last year, and nine starters return from the league’s worst scoring defense...
...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 to do other than succumb to extremist dogma...
...cast, yet the party discards them like unwanted wool sweaters. Former NYC Mayor Giuliani reduced crime in his city by 60 percent, but he’s pro-choice. Arizona Senator John McCain advocated the successful surge strategy in Iraq years ago, but he pushed for the failed immigration overhaul. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney turned a nearly $3 billion deficit into a $700 million surplus without raising taxes, but he only recently converted to social conservatism. Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson—well you have me there, I don’t know what?...