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...rate derivatives, CEO Ed Clark was pilloried for leaving profit on the table. Clark, who has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, made the decision because he couldn't comprehend, to his satisfaction, the credit and equity products that were being traded at the firm. So he decided to quit the business--a move that kept his bank in the black while others suffered. "I'm an old-school banker," he later said. "I don't think you should do something you don't understand, hoping there's somebody at the bottom of the organization who does...
...team prior to yesterday’s event. “We are trying to manage some of the weak spots that we have on the women’s side,” Brand said. “We had one female recruit who suddenly decided to quit and this hurts us.” But it looks like he has nothing to worry about. For the women, it was all about the freshmen yesterday as three fencers placed in their respective events. Leading the Crimson on the day was freshman Caroline Vloka, who placed first in the sabre...
...Republican nominee "John The Fighting McCain." This fighting motif, which McCain debuted at the end of his convention speech in Minneapolis, now occupies the thematic center of McCain's message. "Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. America is worth fighting for. We never give up. We never quit," he calls out at the end of each rally, raising his voice and building the excitement of the crowds...
...anchored at the end of the long driveways were as likely to read OBAMA as MCCAIN. On Oct. 22, McCain and Palin flew in to fire up several thousand of their supporters at a local airport hangar. "Nothing is inevitable!" the Senator shouted. "We never give up. We never quit...
...government. "Now we were able to expose the regime for the crimes it had committed." International pressure and defections from his own cadres slowly forced Gayoom to change tack and speak of democratic reform. Ibrahim Hussein Zaki served for ten years as a minister in Gayoom's cabinet, but quit to help found the rebel Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) in November 2003 alongside Nasheed. "I realized that change could never come from within. This was a family regime, not the people's regime," he told TIME...