Word: spotting
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Last weekend, reports began circulating of Thomsen's departure, just a few days after House Financial Services Committee members ripped her for failing to spot Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme and ignoring nine years of whistle-blower tips about the scam. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
...replacement for Thomsen was named, but experts agree that Schapiro needs a tough-as-nails enforcer to help remake the agency's image. The top mention to fill the spot is Robert Khuzami, a former federal prosecutor. He is currently a managing director and general counsel at Deutsche Bank. Khuzami spent 11 years at the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, where he headed the white-collar crime unit, before taking a job at Deutsche Bank in 2002. The SEC declined to comment on a possible replacement for Thomsen; Khuzami's office did not comment either...
...quite a blowout. Government and private-sector estimates put total probable expenditure on 3G in China - whose 630 million users make up the world's largest group of mobile subscribers - at a whopping $59 billion over the next three years. That bonanza will be virtually the only bright spot in the otherwise gloomy outlook for Chinese and foreign cellular-network-equipment makers amid the global recession...
...somehow managed to land tickets to Barack Obama’s inauguration. But while our silver-section admission granted us a closer view than millions of Obama fans teeming on the National Mall, we were still in the most plebeian of ticketed areas. If we wanted the best possible spot, we were going to have to battle with 140,000 other early risers. And unbeknownst to us, we were also going to have to tolerate appalling police incompetence. And so late at night on January 19, I put on three pairs of pants, grabbed our precious, fancy-looking tickets...
...triumphant return to Iran to claim power on the ruins of the Shah's regime, Iran's Islamic revolution can still draw a crowd. That much was clear Tuesday as several hundred thousand people converged on Tehran's Freedom Square to celebrate its 30th anniversary at the very spot where Khomeini was first welcomed home from his exile in France. (See pictures of Khomeini's triumphant return to Iran...