Word: uncleared
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...reason why the world's financial markets are in such crisis this week. Bear and AIG were bailed out in part because they were big players in the market for credit default swaps, derivatives that are meant to insure against loans gone bad. Regulators have such an unclear picture of who's on the hook to whom in this market that they feared the collapse of either firm would spark a chain reaction of defaults, and investors are so panicked by the unknown that they are selling shares in even seemingly healthy investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley...
...nearly 1 in 2 African-American girls, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But this is the first year such a study has been completed, and the study doesn't separate 14-to-16-year-olds from 17-to-19-year-olds, so it's still unclear which way that trend is heading...
...unclear what serious alternatives exist to the kind of painful mass evacuations Louisiana officials ordered last week. A politically tricky situation remains: If state and local officials fail to move residents out of flood-prone areas, they risk charges of incompetence, or worse. But their hesitance after Gustav to allow residents to quickly return to areas that lacked basic services like electricity, grocery stores and gas stations brought the same accusations. In addition, their heightened rhetoric as Gustav approached - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin at one point said it could be "the storm of the century" - only hurts their credibility...
...legal and ethical woes played out on the region's front pages and television sets, Kilpatrick, 38, has steadfastly refused to leave office. In a broadcast apology last winter that left unclear exactly what he was apologizing for, the mayor issued a statement to city residents that walked the line between promise and threat. "I would never quit on you," he vowed. "Ever...
Individual sellers that use eBay or AbeBooks are breaking the law, says Ginsburg, but whether the sites are also liable for the auctions is unclear. Ebay recently won a court case absolving it of responsibility for policing its auctions for counterfeit items - although it will remove an auction if contacted by the company that owns the rights to an item - but international textbooks are not technically counterfeit. Like eBay, AbeBooks acts as a third party for sellers - generally stores in foreign countries. One copy of Organic Chemistry found on its site was being sold by the William Bookstore...