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...some banks. It will end up with a 70% share in RBS. The stunning part of the program is, according to Bloomberg, that the government will require aid recipients to sign "specific and quantified" agreements to lend, reflecting Brown's frustration at the failure of an October rescue to unlock credit markets. (See pictures of London's gathering storm...
...accused of killing 300 prisoners by keeping them locked in a burning church. Having earned the audience's sympathies by refusing to reveal a personal secret that would mitigate her responsibility, she then takes them from empathy to horror. When Schmitz finally blurts out that she couldn't unlock the church because to do so would mean "chaos," the moment is astonishing. "You follow her logic, but then suddenly Kate twists it," says Hare. "That's where Kate really looks like a Nazi...
...eventual goal, said Oliveira, is for the technology to be fully integrated into lending organizations, helping to unlock a trillion-dollar small-enterprise economy hidden in the developing world. CORRECTION
...book you write that at one point, you decided to "unlock the potential of Downing Street." A prime minister's wife had never before used the office as a platform to pursue important international and humanitarian aims. Did that distract people from your husband's goals...
...measures appear to have helped unlock frozen credit markets. The three-month Hong Kong interbank rate, or HIBOR, a measure of the difficulties of getting access to credit, fell by more than half a percentage point Monday, the biggest drop in a decade...