Word: vital
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...posed by bank lending to hedge funds. Says House banking chairman Jim Leach, who plans to hold hearings in the next week or two: "The question that remains for the economy is what other risk exists in the hedge-fund and derivatives industries." The answer, of course, is of vital interest to U.S. taxpayers as well as to investors. Talk of "moral hazard" will thus remain a hot issue from Washington to Wall Street and Main Street...
...year when fishermen along the East Coast joined to protest a 369-ft. factory trawler, the Atlantic Star. U.S.-Dutch owned, the Star was being refitted in Norway to catch herring and mackerel. The two species are food for cod, tuna, birds, whales and dolphins, and could be a vital link in rebuilding the Atlantic food chain...
Even amid impeachment talk and world financial turmoil, TIME sets aside 10 pages this week for a subject not always in the headlines but always vital to our future: preservation of the environment. Efforts to conserve natural resources have long been a preoccupation of TIME's, from our naming of Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year in 1989 to recent coverage of the apparent onset of global warming...
...together will be conditional on that." As always, the economic powers that be are pointing to a light at the end of the tunnel -- an optimism that's selling rather poorly in Indonesia and South Korea right now. But Baumohl says that Brazil is healthy enough -- and vital enough to U.S. interests -- to pull through. "If Brazil falls, Latin America falls, and that will hit the U.S. hard. Ultimately, Brazil won't fail because...
...Judiciary chair Henry Hyde rang the changes Monday. There would be, he said, one Democrat and one Republican dispatched to the independent counsel's office to root through the piles of evidence Ken Starr didn't send to Congress -- even though the Dems lost a vital vote on this issue Friday. What's more, Hyde wants ranking Democrat John Conyers to have equal say in calling witnesses to an impeachment inquiry. The criticism that he was no Peter Rodino seems to have struck the silver-haired chairman Hyde harder than we knew...