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...financial markets, banks became nervous about parting with funds, credit tightened, and stock markets plunged. South Korea has been looking particularly vulnerable to further turmoil. With some $80 billion of its banks' foreign debt maturing by mid-2009, investors worried the country could face a credit crunch that would restrict lending throughout the economy. Those fears have punished Korean stocks and the country's currency. The won plummeted nearly 10% on Oct. 16, its biggest one-day drop since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Standard & Poor's last week also put seven South Korean banks on negative credit watch...
...encouraging reading. “People who physically read newspapers read a lot more than online,” she said. “The internet complements the physical newspaper.” Maghran said that USA Today would also handle delivery, signs, and ID card-readers that would restrict newspaper pick-up to Harvard students. —Staff writer Alex M. McLeese can be reached at amcleese@fas.harvard.edu...
...Palin’s nomination to the Republican presidential ticket, FFL issued the following statement: “…[W]e are not anti-choice. We are pro-life…” FFL’s positions against not only abortion, but contraception as well. restrict pregnant women’s choices to one: the choice of having a baby. Although FFL wants to pander to both sides of the debate, its absolutist pro-fetus stance makes the choice for women, rather than allowing them to choose for themselves. Failing to recognize the central tenet...
...scale of the envisaged capital injections indicated how large the government anticipates the holes in banks' balance sheets may actually be. The market is also mulling the impact of the government's stipulation that banks participating in the scheme must restrict executive pay and dividends to other shareholders. The voluntary nature of the scheme is also problematic, says a City fund manager based at an Asian-owned bank. "It would have removed more uncertainty if the government had just applied the plan to the banks across the board," she says. "Now we have to worry about which banks might need...
...dictates terms. So they're trying to break this monopoly and create an alternative union," he says. But Anil Nagrath, secretary of the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association, argues that the demand that producers employ only union members stifles the industry's creativity. "They [the workers' union] want to restrict all creative freedom. How will I make a film if I can't decide which junior artist to employ? They're forcing producers to leave Mumbai and shoot elsewhere...