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...What price might Treasury offer? Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is doing a "stress test" of the banks to determine how much capital they need to survive. Whatever number that ends up being might be a good price for the toxic assets. "We want to get the assets off our books," says Talbott...
...second test, 30 volunteers were paired off for a role-playing game in which one partner was assigned the part of the superior and the other the part of the subordinate. All of the volunteers were then asked to read a scenario about a fictional marketing agency and rate how likely they would be to improve the agency's profitability next year. The people who had been designated superiors in the role-playing game consistently believed they would do better at the helm of the agency than the people who had been designated subordinates. In the third study, 79 volunteers...
...just months after Warren faced his first real barrage of public criticism, for his support of California's anti-gay-marriage ballot referendum, Proposition 8, and for his prominent role in Barack Obama's Inauguration ceremony. So while the magazine may be a financial gamble, it's also a test of Warren's influence and golden touch. (See the 25 most influential Evangelicals...
...military communication line between the two countries on the divided peninsula, temporarily halted all transit to and from a special industrial zone just north of the border and declared that if the U.S. or Japan should try to shoot down a long-range missile the North is expected to test soon, it would retaliate with a military strike of its own. "I have no illusions about what I've agreed to try to deal with," Bosworth told reporters. "It's a very difficult mandate...
...should still be met with great skepticism. There is nothing new about this “new” satellite—supposedly ushering in an exciting era for North Korea, it is instead strikingly reminiscent of 1998, when North Korea used the same claim as an excuse to test-fire a Taepodong-1 cruise missile over the territory of regional power Japan. Fresher in the public’s memory, in the summer of 2006, North Korea ignored the dismay of regional powers South Korea, Japan, and China by firing a long range Taepodong-2 missile feared...