Word: quiets
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Monday morning is never a quiet time for a Main Street bank. At branches of Northern Rock, a British lender, the lines outside extend even further than usual. But it's not exactly welcome business. Savers flooding the Newcastle-based bank on Monday joined the thousands to have withdrawn their cash from Northern Rock in recent days. So far, customers have emptied the bank of around $4 billion, or 8% of its deposit base...
...team score of 870. Harvard teed off at the Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club looking to build on a strong finish last season as the then-freshmen gained valuable playing experience.Though East Carolina took the top spot with a team score of 842, the Crimson can proceed with quiet confidence in the depth of its young roster. “As our captain, I’m exceedingly proud of our team,” junior captain Mike Shore said. “We performed well and exceeded expectations.”The Mid-Pines Intercollegiate tested the field?...
...Young is not just a poignant survivor; he is a persuasive proselytizer. He speaks at rallies with a quiet authority seared in experience. And because he had comrades killed in Iraq, he tells Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes that he'd protest the war even if he hadn't been paralyzed: "I would still speak out - although I probably wouldn't have as firm a leg to stand on." Then, instantly correcting himself: "Or chair to sit in." The contrast of the Congress' surrender to political dictates and Young's heroism, in Iraq and back home, makes this superb documentary...
...nation's Church continues to recover from a sex abuse scandal in the 1990s in which the then Archbishop of Vienna Hans Wilhelm Groer was forced to resigned under allegations that he himself had been a perpetrator. Indeed, some will consider the trip a success - even if a quiet one - if Benedict can simply heal old wounds rather than open new ones...
...procession of protesting monks. On Sept. 3, a march from the town of Labutta drew hundreds of supporters before security forces broke up the rally. "If the regime doesn't resolve the underlying economic problems - and I don't think it can quickly - then things are not going to quiet down," says Khin Ohmar, an '88 student leader who lives in exile in Thailand. "We've all been waiting for the point when normal people overcome their fear of the regime and rise up; this could be that moment...