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...before the one-year anniversary of its record high - Sal Buccellato, a currency trader with Gallant FX, warned that not everyone was going to enjoy the end-of-the-year holidays, but he was more optimistic over the long term. Buccelato - who said he made money during the bloodletting - saw a silver lining even for those who lose their jobs. "They'll take a nine-month vacation and the government will pay for that, too" - referring to severance packages, unemployment benefits, unused time-off and other subsidies that would come their way. Greg Barton, an equities trader with NWT Financial...
...identical to her debating style in the gubernatorial race. “Her performance in the debate was pretty much the same,” he said. “Stay on message, and provide sound byte after sound byte. There was no depth or specifics, and what I saw Thursday was certainly what I saw in 2006. How do you get away filling a 45-second segment with nothingness?” Halcro did praise Palin’s political savvy, attributing her popularity to her ability to connect with voters. “Governor Palin is charismatic, likeable...
...Embassy's relations with its neighbors began to sour after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Although the State Department started a program of heavily fortifying its embassies against terrorism, some residents saw the Grosvenor Square site as vulnerable. In 2006, a neighborhood association, the Grosvenor Square Safety Group, bought two-page advertisements in The Washington Post and the Times of London that accused the Metropolitan Police and local governments of a moral failure for not closing the two roads adjacent to the embassy. Russian Countess Anca Vidaeff, who lived across from the embassy's side entrance, even held...
...Ibrahim's experiences as an entrepreneur in Africa that convinced him to set up his foundation and create a $5 million annual prize for the African leader who best personifies responsible and credible government, which he saw as the key to African development. So why are things changing now? "[As] John Githongo [Kenya's former anticorruption czar] says, 'The democracy genie is out of the bottle,' " notes Hania Farhan, the foundation's director of research. "There will be violent ructions and eruptions, like Kenya or Zimbabwe or Nigeria, but the trend is there, and it is remarkable. Africans want their...
...Feldman said that he never originally saw any real-world applications for his course of study and that his interests stemmed from two courses he took in which he noticed the overlapping material...