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...take this worst possible course? The only plausible answer is so as to avoid the short-term political cost of a run-down of the bank, a major employer in the northeast of England, which is one of the Labour Party's heartlands. But the longer-term political cost to the government is likely to be very severe. Governments, like financial centers, need to be jealous of their reputation. The U.K.'s reputation as a financial center is sufficiently soundly based for it to recover from the blow inflicted by the Northern Rock affair. Whether the government's reputation...
...That seems unlikely in the run-down mining town that didn't even exist until some German miners set up a company called SAM near the town of Ouandja. The mining company's departure and decades of neglect and insecurity have left the remote northern town a forgotten backwater - like the country of which it forms part...
...play his last scenes tethered in torture. And we will not forgive Lastplaceable for making Lane - at 43 a near-30-year veteran of movies and a fine natural actress who, I wrote not long ago, "has never had an ungorgeous day in her screen life" - look run-down, worn-out and generally kind of awful, even when she's not hanging upside down above a threshing machine. Finally, the movie turns Portland into a gray, soggy monsoon city. I checked the city's official website and read: "Our average annual rainfall is less than that of Atlanta, Birmingham, Houston...
...Performing Arts, the first cluster of arts buildings in the U.S., were rising from their foundations. As intended by Robert Moses, the indomitable city planner, Philharmonic Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York State Theater and so on transformed the surrounding streets. Almost all that remains of the run-down old neighborhood is what you can see of it in the movie version of West Side Story, which was filmed partly in the tenements, long since demolished, just west of where Lincoln Center stands...
...Great heads up play by Housman. After another airballed attempt by Michigan, in the run-down for the rebound, Housman throws it off a Michigan defender and out of bounds. Harvard possession up by 2 into the timeout...