Word: seconded
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...Second City's business community, the answer is a resounding yes. "We view the opportunity as one of those pivotal moments in our history," says Lance Pressl, an executive at the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. "Innovative juices flow, our broad shoulders get flexed and collectively we transform this great city into something even better." (See the long history of Olympic politics...
...FDIC's second option is to borrow money from the Treasury Department. This is well within the rules of the FDIC. The agency has a credit line with the Treasury to tap as much as $500 billion in emergency capital through the end of next year. But the FDIC is worried that if the agency, which has always been privately funded through bank assessments, borrowed money from the Treasury, it would look like a new bank bailout, eroding the sliver of confidence the public has regained in our nation's banking system in the past few months...
Kutler continued on to orchestrate the Crimson’s second scoring opportunity seven minutes later. Kutler dribbled the ball up the left side of the field but was quickly trapped by a Crusader defender on the sideline. Cradling the ball with her back to the defender, Kutler wrapped the ball around and created enough space to get a pass off to Hagner as she cut to the goal. Hagner faked one way, then shot the other and planted the ball in the right corner of the net to give the Harvard a commanding 2-0 lead...
Hassan then returned the favor in August when he left the country rather than attend Ahmadinejad's second-term inauguration. Since then, state news agencies have launched an all-out media war against him, questioning his political credentials and suggesting he has been colluding with the "manipulators" - that is, opposition leaders like Mousavi and former President Mohammed Khatami. If history is any guide, the regime likely has the upper hand here. Ayatullah Khomeini's most promising son, Ahmad, died under suspicious circumstances at age 49. He had become critical of his father's successor as Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei...
...There's also the matter of the economic downturn. The worst recession since World War II will see Europe's biggest economy contract by 5% in 2009. While Germany's economy grew 0.3% in the second quarter of this year, it will still be a slow climb out of recession. Unemployment is set to rise next year once government subsidized short-term labor contracts are phased out. The budget deficit is expected to pass 6% of GDP in 2010, thanks mostly to a dip in tax revenues. Some economists say the center-right government will be penned in. "There...