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...Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had been warning that such measures could prevent companies from participating in the program, but on Sept. 24 he relented in the face of political pressure. "The American people are angry about executive compensation, and rightfully so," he told the House Committee for Financial Services. "We must find a way to address this in legislation without undermining the effectiveness of the program...
Where have we seen this movie before? A financial system in tatters; banks and investment banks, many effectively bankrupt due to an avalanche of souring real estate loans, are forced to merge with rivals; to prevent an economic meltdown, the government is forced to buy up billions of dollars worth of bad assets - raising taxes to pay for the program - as citizens seethe. That's the U.S., today. But the prequel to Nightmare on Wall Street occurred more than a decade ago in Japan, when epic real estate and stock-market bubbles burst - making it all the more remarkable that...
...This may surprise those who were under the impression that the "truth in advertising" standard applied to all advertising. Commercial companies are bound by restrictions that prevent them from making false claims about their products or those of their competitors. Certainly, corporations test those laws all the time, but they do so at a significant risk. When Kentucky Fried Chicken tried to claim that fried chicken could be part of an effective diet program in 2004, the Federal Trade Commission penalized the company, requiring it to pull the commercials and submit all advertising for FTC review for the next five...
...Durwood said. “Points go by really quickly without you really noticing it. We work on trying to side out quickly in practice so that we don’t get stuck in a certain rotation. It’s tricky for any team to prevent runs like that.”Closer play and numerous lead changes followed in the second game. The deciding performance came from Ono Horn, who laid down the final three Crimson kills and prevented the James Madison comeback. Harvard did not fare as well in the third or fourth games, falling behind...
...elections and the war in Iraq. The U.S. response has been a sloppy counterinsurgency; according to a recent United Nations report, U.S. and NATO forces have been responsible for 577 Afghan civilian deaths this year, 395 of which were due to airstrikes. The immediate objective should thus be to prevent additional civilian deaths due to airstrikes and raids, of which Azizabad was a particularly horrific example. The best way to do this is to get more boots on the ground. Air strikes are an inherently imprecise means of targeting suspects: too many innocent homes and lives are destroyed along...