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...officials, chief operating officer John Bovenzi and Dallas-based assistant director Rick Hoffman, to Pasadena, Calif., to run the bank. Bovenzi became IndyMac's CEO. Hoffman took on the role of president. For Bovenzi and Hoffman, cost-cutting was high on their agenda. They slashed the rate the bank was paying on certificates of deposit. Expensive perks were out as well - the government even sold off the company's Dodgers and Lakers season tickets. A company Porsche fetched $65,000 on Autotrader.com. Also gone are many of the artworks in the elevator lobby and the high-priced office furniture...
...economy is losing between 600,000 and 750,000 jobs every month by every measure that the government and analysts use. This rate of job losses may go on for a relatively long period. This trend can cause people to believe that trying to find a job is hopeless and that the tidal wave of the recession will overflow the financial mooring of every person who has ever worked or may want to work again...
...Cambridge charges $7.56 in tax per $1,000 of residential property value, the lowest rate in the Boston area...
...there is a ground zero for both problems, it is Texas, where I grew up and where my parents and brothers still live. About 1 in 4 Texans is uninsured, the highest rate in the country. The vast majority of the uninsured - 8 in 10 - live in households in which someone works, typically for a small business. But only 37% of Texas companies with fewer than 50 employees offer medical coverage...
...cost of Scotland's alcohol problem is not only directed at the public purse - the Scots have the highest rate for cirrhosis of the liver in Europe and one of the worst alcohol-related death rates. Rising murder and crime figures are also linked to drink. A study conducted for the Scottish Prison Service between 1979 and 2007 and published this year discovered that alcohol use had soared, with 79.6% of the young inmates surveyed in the final year claiming alcohol as a contributing factor in their offenses, compared with 47.9% in 1979. Respondents reporting that they had been drunk...