Word: rumores
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...business by such lender squeezes, starting last summer with two mortgage funds run by Bear Stearns. But Bear itself still turned a small profit in 2007. As late as the first week of March this year, there was no reason to think it was in imminent danger. Then rumors began flying that it was. Lenders refused to lend, clients refused to trade, and suddenly Bear was out of money. It was a bank run, more or less. And the scary thing was that there is no entirely satisfactory explanation for why it hit Bear. One may emerge as JPMorgan Chase...
...Some of the money was eventually recovered, but, curiously enough, much of the other property went unclaimed, lending credence to the rumor that the vault also contained a lot of dirty little secrets. This much of The Bank Job's story is true. But since to this day no one knows who perpetrated the crime or what their motives were, director Roger Donaldson and screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have had to make up most of their tale. On the whole, they've made a pretty good job of it. For example, they posit the scandalous possibility that...
...leadership abilities. “Raul is not the most capable as a leader and the people know that,” he says.All three admit that their slight pessimism stems from a series of disappointing developments in the history of Cuban politics. Last summer, for instance, a rumor circulated that Fidel Castro had died. Lage remembers his father coming home from work and informing him of the possibility of an announcement of Castro’s death on the Cuban state news. Velo said that the city of Miami, with its large Cuban population, was preparing for the massive...
...fascination with the college, although references to Harvard and The Lampoon are scattered throughout the show. Reiss admits that this is not a coincidence.“We hit Harvard a little more because we know it well,” he said. However, he denied the widely held rumor that Mr. Burns is based on “Justice” professor Michael Sandel.Despite moving into animated comedy by accident, Reiss has no intention of quitting. Having branched out from “The Simpsons” with his own animated show “Queer Duck...
DIED When a rumor spread that lynching was likely for civil rights activist James Orange--confined in an Alabama jail after his 1965 arrest during a voter-registration drive--it set in motion the protests and marches that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. An aide and friend to Martin Luther King Jr., Orange was with him the day that King was assassinated. Orange worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the AFL-CIO and, most recently, the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee...