Word: smalleness
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...against the backdrop of shocking serial murders in a particularly poor section of England, the films tell the story of the West Yorkshire Constabulary and the corruption that has been eating away at the small police force for ten years. Spanning that decade, the audience is presented with a complex, moving look at this strange little place, the fear of three ruthless serial killers, and the desperation of having literally nowhere to turn in a town so filled with corruption...
...Riding 1974,” there have been a rash of kidnappings in small, impoverished West Yorkshire. Ace reporter Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield, in an excellent performance) has made it his mission to get to the bottom of it all, but along the way runs into something much more complex and sinister than a serial killer. John Dawson, (Sean Bean) a prominent business man, has been bribing policemen and officials for years and when a young girl is found dead and brutalized on his land, he is willing to go to any length to keep Dunford from prying...
...well. The new agency was included in the financial reforms the House of Representatives passed along party lines in December, but it has been a stumbling block as the Senate has struggled to put together a bipartisan bill, and even the House version was watered down a bit. Small banks were allowed to keep their old regulators; realtors and auto dealers were exempted from new regulation; a requirement that lenders offer "plain-vanilla" mortgages in addition to exotic products was scrapped. (Read "Don't Kill the Consumer Financial Protection Agency...
...recent interview that he truly believes an agreement is possible. But in that same interview, Corker described some modest Administration proposals - like giving consumers the option of a simple "plain-vanilla" mortgage - as "way, way out in left field." He also said that when Obama proposed a small tax on large banks to recoup the costs of the bailouts, he wondered if he was living in the U.S. or Venezuela. And he's considered the most compromise-friendly Republican...
...IRGC to keep building centrifuges and enriching uranium. If nothing else, the hostility of the West that would follow would distract the Iranian opposition. And while an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities could perhaps set back the program by five years, it's a small price to pay in order to convince the people on the street that Iran is under an existential threat. One thing that would happen is that opposition demonstrations would come to a quick...