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...days that have followed a number of prominent officials, including Minister of Commerce Björgvín Sigurdsson and the director and board of Iceland's Financial Supervisory Authority, have tendered their resignations...
...thousands began losing their jobs, public anger grew. As the Minister of Commerce Sigurdsson said in his resignation statement: "Last night I came to the realization that, for me, there is no turning back. The anger and distrust of the people is to too deep for me to be able to gain their faith again...
...hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide a smelter emits every year. "If you compare the offset, it's six to eight times cleaner to produce here" than in a location where a smelter would get electricity from a coal- or oil-based source, says Tomas Mar Sigurdsson, general manager of Alcoa Iceland...
...civil servants, long accustomed to raises indexed to soaring inflation rates, sought 30% increases, while the government offered only 6%. So complete was the ensuing shut down that government officials had to pitch in to help keep life running. In addition to his higher duties, Chief of Police Sigurjon Sigurdsson stamped passports at Keflavik Airport...
...Iceland's 130,000 population all but 400 Roman Catholics and 70 Seventh-Day Adventists are included in Dr. Sigurdsson...