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Florida has taken on a special weight this time around, not just because it is the fourth most populous state, but also because it is a key battleground on Super Tuesday, after Iowa and New Hampshire have winnowed the G.O.P. field. It will also be vital in the general election, when Clinton will surely hope that Republican votes against Medicare might help him carry the state, offsetting expected losses elsewhere in the South...
...issue of bank regulation is a vital one in the wake of scandals at Britain's Barings Bank and Japan's Daiwa Bank. The biggest debacle of recent years was the 1991 collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which cost depositors billions of dollars. Much of the blame was placed on regulators who seemed oblivious to B.C.C.I.'s frauds. No one is suggesting that this is another B.C.C.I. case in the making. When questioned about Investcorp's practices, its officials noted that the bank is licensed in Bahrain and is well supervised. "It's a very strong...
Anderson's sentiments were echoed by Gould, who said that 25 years ago, when his two children were young, the co-payment would also have been a vital issue for his family...
...letter sent to the 1,700 members of the Brattle mailing list last weekend, the co-directors asked for support and ideas which would help the theater stay vital...
...this lofty experiment has played out, it finds the U.N.'s charter conference an affair doomed by internal contradictions. Haunted by the disaster of appeasement, the framers assumed all humanity would rally behind the rescue of any country, no matter how remote the peril to any other country's vital interest. They believed each government would surrender at any time its warmaking powers to a supranational force. They provided not at all for conflicts within nations, and they considered open debate and resolutions of goodwill to be a cure for all evils...