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...worse, with new widows or other bereaved family members wanting to sell the ill-fated bikes for parts. "You're buying that bike for that reason - somebody's not coming in and buying a sports bike to go putt around town," he says. But if the bikers won't rein themselves in, Florida lawmakers may eventually be forced...
...engineer who would clear away old obstacles to a functioning and just economy. An initial flood of oil-fueled liquidity and openhanded lending at the beginning of the Ahmadinejad era has given way to a stagnant property market and tight limits on bank lending in an effort to rein in prices. Ahmadinejad also dissolved economic-planning organizations and dismissed officials with economic expertise. Managers in Iran's near paralyzed manufacturing sector now face the immediate problem of how to fill the gaps in their end-of-year accounts under a cloud of unpaid government debts and declining demand...
...also inevitable. Pressure is building on political leaders to prove they're serious about getting their countries' finances in order. In late January, S&P warned that it could downgrade Japan's sovereign rating if the new administration of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama doesn't rein in the deficit. In his January State of the Union address, President Barack Obama pledged to freeze discretionary fiscal spending for three years starting in 2011. "Like any cash-strapped family, we will work within a budget to invest in what we need and sacrifice what we don't," Obama said. (See pictures...
...critics who say that the government's two-year investigation into the other suspected plotters is partially aimed at settling old political scores against secularist journalists and government opponents who have been rounded up in recent months. "This government has done nothing in the name of democratization except to rein in the military. That's why I see this process not as one of democratization but of substituting military tutelage with a form of civilian tutelage," says Cuneyt Ulsever, a liberal columnist for the Hurriyet daily newspaper. The AKP has also controversially shelved plans to broaden Kurdish rights, introduce...
Though Medical School professor Charles N. Serhan, who served on the committee that issued the policy recommendations, says he applauds the policy’s aims to rein in conflicts of interest issues, he cautions that its expansive reach does not come without costs...