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...Western levels as consumers became hooked on credit. Home buyers and businesses took out mortgages in foreign currencies, which had the effect of worsening already severe current-account deficits. In a peculiarly Estonian twist, companies in the tech-savvy country began offering high-interest short-term loans by mobile phone. Borrowers could text the company their requests and have money transferred into their bank accounts almost instantly, albeit at usurious interest rates of up to 800% a month...
...change to a new technology...The movies actually got sound and that attracted a log of people who probably wouldn’t have otherwise gone,” he says. “Back in 1930, there was no television. There was no DVD, no cell phone with webisodes, no iPod...Movies are just one of the things that are out there, and they are not going to resist this downturn. They’re going to suffer just like anything else...
...election in Georgia between Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss and Democratic challenger Jim Martin will become the new focus of the club, Novey said, with plans for phone banking to be made soon...
...Language Although government meetings in Missouri are already conducted in English, the overwhelming and resolute passage of Amendment 1, which bans the use of any foreign language during government proceedings, more concretely establishes English as the official language of the state. All government meetings, including those conducted over the phone or via e-mail, will, by law, be in English. The measure passed with more than 85% of the vote...
...turmoil to the doorstep of this election, the country would retreat to the safe choice and not risk a rookie. It was Obama's triumph that the financial crisis that might have buried him actually raised him up, let voters judge his judgment in real time, the 3 a.m. phone call that came night after night. It gave him, over the course of three weeks and three debates, a stage for statesmanship that decades of Senate debate could never have offered...