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...this scheme in his book's opening chapter. Monahan and Scott take nearly an hour to start focusing on it, so fascinated are they by the daily risks and gambles an American in Arabia must take. It's low-tech guts on the ground, high-tech snooping in the sky. As Ferris lays his life on the line for another scam out in the desert, Hoffman gets a remote overhead view through the Predator surveillance system. He might be God watching his creatures, or a lab technician staring down at the rats in his maze...
...work for U.S. Steel, which has been doing fine, mind you. Instead, he's the CEO of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), the thriving $7 billion health-care conglomerate that occupies some of the top floors of the building and whose logo now glows in the night sky...
Duffie says sky-high rates for default insurance for 10 of the world's most prominent banks, including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, demonstrate that there is a lot of market concern about the stability of leading financial institutions, even after the Treasury's recent steps. Another piece of evidence: the premiums on three-month interbank loans remain very high in comparison with overnight loans, signaling banks' deep uncertainty about the sector's stability...
...officials argue that the initiative would decimate government projects ranging from Massachusetts’ one-of-a-kind universal health care plan to infrastructure repairs, proponents see the initiative as an opportunity to expose and eliminate wasteful government spending. “These are the usual ‘sky-is-falling’ claim from our opponents, who like to pick the most popular programs and threaten to cut them, while ignoring government waste...and the thousands of subcontracters that are unaccountable and unscrutinized by the taxpayer,” said Carla A. Howell, president of the small government...
...give Native American artists national exposure. In an interview Friday, Bailey said her road trips enable these Native American artists to continue doing what they love. As a young girl, Bailey said, someone told her that buying turquoise is like “owning a piece of the blue sky.” Her collection of turquoise jewelry soon grew to include an array of rugs and pots as well, to the point that the only way she could continue buying art was to sell some of it. After opening a gallery in Albuquerque’s historic district...