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...being forced to raise cash to meet redemptions by liquidating their holdings. In addition, highly leveraged funds are being forced by their bankers to come up with more collateral as the value of their holdings falls, forcing managers to sell more shares to raise more cash. It's a vicious circle: funds are rushing to sell the same illiquid securities, driving stock prices down and triggering new waves of selling. This mass deleveraging by the industry has been cited as one of the causes of recent record volatility in world markets...
...target of a vicious ad that accused her of accepting funds from "godless Americans," Hagan surged in the closing days, defeating Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole to take a seat long held by Jesse Helms. Dole's real sin was voting with Bush nearly 90% of the time...
...week into difficult talks, agencies within the Bush Administration are struggling to agree on a far-reaching new plan that would rescue homeowners with mortgage woes and ease the vicious foreclosure cycle that plagues the housing market...
...Gore ’69 was here Wednesday, presumably to speak about saving the environment or, as South Park fans would claim, to warn Harvard students about the ever-growing threat of the vicious ManBearPig.Unfortunately I missed the speech in the Yard, having slept through it after dozing off while reading “On the Road” for a seminar (this is more of a testament to sleep deprivation than an indictment of Jack Kerouac).But had I been there, I would have asked the former Vice President to offer a solution to another pressing issue: the woeful...
...Robo-calls can also make an already contentious election that much nastier. In 2000, Republicans John McCain and George W. Bush attacked one another for automated phone calls that used the words "vicious bigot" and "satanic cult;" both campaigns denied responsibility, blaming overzealous supporters, while McCain went so far as to refer to them as "hate calls...