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...recently as 2007, Brown opposed European calls for better regulation of hedge funds-investment schemes that had helped made London Europe's finance capital. But on Sunday, Brown wrote in Britain's Observer newspaper that finance markets and banks should be obliged to factor the collective interest of long-term economic gain into their activities, an effort he said should serve as "the foundation on which a new system must be based...
...ongoing negotiations that labor is having with the managements of GM and Chrysler, but it does establish a prototype that could be used, and it signals the UAW's new willingness to compromise on this issue. "The modifications will protect jobs for UAW members by ensuring the long-term viability of the company," said UAW President Ron Gettelfinger...
...Under term loan agreements that GM and Chrysler signed with the U.S. Treasury in December, the UAW is required to accept equity instead of cash as payments into the health-care trust. But only last month, Gettelfinger said he was reluctant to accept any equity because it could jeopardize the health-care benefits of retirees. Gettelfinger also noted at the time that the UAW had not signed any commitment to a new VEBA funding scheme as part of the government loan deal...
...though, Montgomery-Smith has been asked by the Alzheimer's Society not to describe this activity - called Singing for the Brain - as "treatment." The scientific data doesn't even support the term "therapeutic." But there are few other dementia therapies that the evidence can validate - currently only two types of drugs have received government approval in the U.S. to slow the progression of Alzheimer's, but both offer only limited benefits - and many caregivers, desperate to better the lives of their patients, resort to such low-tech, behavior-based solutions as singing. (Read "Ginko Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer...
...much disposable income they have. They've just been spending it. And all of a sudden they've woken up and found, 'I have $20,000 in credit card debt. All of a sudden I need to face consequences that are acute.' It's fundamentally healthy over the long term, but it's painful over the short term...