Word: resorting
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...result was a parallel system almost as big as the banking system that had none of its post-Depression stabilizing pillars: no deposit insurance, no access to the lender of last resort, no resolution regime and only a patchworky, inadequate framework of restraints for risk-taking. In the old system, Americans' deposits in regular banks financed the system. In the shadow banking system, Americans' deposits in money market funds provided the asset anchor. As AIG teetered on the brink in mid-September, a run began by institutional investors on the money market funds...
PHUKET Hotel Unwind along a secluded stretch of Thailand's Mai Khao Beach at the new Anantara Resort & Spa, designed by famed architect and landscape artist Bill Bensley...
...bacterium responsible for these deaths was nothing the doctors at Church of Scotland had ever seen before. It had found a way to evade not just the first-line antibiotics commonly used to treat the disease but several of the drugs of last resort as well. KwaZulu-Natal, and the world, had seen its first outbreak of extensively drug-resistant...
...easy way to detect drug-resistant strains of TB; current sputum-based screens can take anywhere from two weeks to two months, during which time doctors protectively place infected patients on first-line drugs too weak to battle the aggressive strain effectively rather than risk the overuse of last-resort medications that would only feed drug resistance. And in Africa in particular, tuberculosis is nurtured alongside AIDS in a deadly double hit: The weakened immune systems of H.I.V. patients make them more vulnerable to TB infection, and because their crippled immune systems can no longer mount proper responses, H.I.V. patients...
Didn't always directly answer the questions but deflected and hedged with offhand subtlety. Rarely took the bait when Biden faulted John McCain. Was happy to resort to the safety of "maverick" imagery in a pinch...