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...have yet to have sit-downs with Geithner. A number of industry insiders say Geithner's early-February policy speech, which got a poor reception, would have gone better and had more detail if he'd had more meetings with financial executives. Geithner, though, didn't want it to seem as if Wall Street was getting the chance to write its own blank check. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...would improve. In return, the government would get more of an upside if Citi were to return to health, plus effective control of the company. Whether the government's stake would rise to the 100% that many economists recommend - completely wiping out existing shareholders - is questionable. But Citi does seem inexorably headed for the same ward-of-the-state status currently occupied by insurer AIG and mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie...
...Considering the junior is on pace to shatter last year’s total of 621 assists, Weintraub does not seem particularly fixated with personal stats or glory...
Today, most Virginians seem unaware that the fate of the state's uranium mining moratorium is being discussed anew. The state coal and energy commission's study that might persuade the state's General Assembly to lift the moratorium could still take up to two years to complete. But already in rural Pittsylvania, which has one of the state's highest unemployment rates, debate is fierce. Supporters say new mining technology will allow miners to get the uranium safely, the mine would offer much-needed jobs to 300 people, and the uranium would fuel new reactors and help the nation...
...Under the unusual giveaway, Vietnamese living below the poverty line (defined by the government as those earning less than $15 a month) qualified to receive a gift of 200,000 Vietnamese dong, or about $12. Families were entitled to a maximum of $57. Though it may seem a paltry sum, the cash was a windfall for Vietnam's 10 million poorest. It was a way of helping people truly suffering from the economic crisis and a series of natural disasters that hit the country last year, says Ngo Truong Thi, the deputy director of social welfare at the Ministry...