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USAGE: "You can set up Mail Goggles to protect you from yourself at other emotionally vulnerable times--before your morning coffee, for example, or right after Grey's Anatomy." --Associated Press...
Ironically, some of the things that have made Pittsburgh seem weak over the years will help protect it. It has large numbers of students and seniors. Seniors have unearned incomes in the form of pensions and Social Security, which puts a floor beneath the economy...
...magnitude of Lincoln's collapse and the fraud charges later brought against Keating led the Senate Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into the conduct of the five Senators - now known as the Keating Five - who were thought to have improperly intervened with regulators to protect a campaign contributor. The investigation began in November of 1989 and lasted nearly two years. All five Senators denied improper conduct, claiming that it was Keating's status as a constituent rather than as a donor that motivated their actions; although when Keating was asked whether his financial support had influenced the Senators...
...1990s - believe the solution needs to be far more dramatic. They advocate that the U.S. government directly invest taxpayer money into private financial firms. "The authorities must do anything they can," Kanno says. "If the banks are in trouble, they can be nationalized and the government can protect the whole system." Yesterday, Britain pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in credits, guarantees and cash to shore up its banking system. The package included partial nationalization of some of the country's major banks...
...German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "We both agree that Europeans of course need to display a coherent course of action." President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, which currently holds the rotating E.U. presidency, read on television a common statement from all 27 members pledging to adopt "all necessary measures to protect the stability of the financial system...