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...Wall Street out of work, it's pretty easy for an analyst to say, let me try my hand at that," says Mark Fichtel, a former president of the New York Mercantile Exchange and one of the Securities and Exchange Commission consultants who picked which independent research shops to use in the settlement...
...region, the four young men passed a boundary into closed terrain - even after an explicit warning from a ski patroller not to go out of bounds. Because of the hazardous conditions, ski patrol was unable to follow the entourage into the closed area and instead rescuers had to use a helicopter to guide them to safety. When the group reached the bottom, they were stripped of their passes, banned for life from the resort, and told they would be responsible for the cost of the helicopter flight as well as the resources diverted from the rest of the mountain during...
...similar scenario for the Coast Guard. Even if you were to take a canoe out into the Atlantic in the middle of a hurricane and the Coast Guard had to use a 110-ft. patrol boat (which costs $1,147 per hour) or a C-130 turboprop airplane ($7,600 per hour), you wouldn't have to pay a dime. Your story may be turned into a public service announcement on how to avoid endangering yourself/being an idiot on the ocean, but it wouldn't cost you any money. "If you get yourself in trouble, regardless of the circumstances, that...
...come, and though he hasn't decided, says an aide, "He always has an inclination in favor of an Administration's pick." Younger members of the committee are on the fence. Bob Corker of Tennessee has been sober in the face of outrage over the International Monetary Fund's use of currency reserves to stabilize the global financial system, a favorite Beck bugaboo. Johnny Isakson of Georgia has an unperturbably conservative view of the Executive Branch's authorities. Some may split the difference by grilling Koh, then voting for him on the principle that the President should get his pick...
...many expect Pyongyang to use the jailed reporters as pawns in the stalemate, increasing pressure on the Obama administration to make North Korea a foreign policy priority earlier than planned. That means the White House could find itself revisiting topics from nuclear weapons to restarting food aid, suspended last March, sooner than it had planned. "North Korea is going to make them the most valuable bargaining chip as it can," says Kim Taewoo a North Korea expert at the Korea Institute For Defense Analysis. He expects their trial, the start date of which has yet to be announced...