Word: wakefulness
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Recalibrating the amount of power the ratings agencies wield in the world, though, is a Herculean task. Just seven years ago, in the wake of the Enron collapse, the Senate held hearings about the role of the ratings agencies - which considered the company's debt investment-grade until just days before it went bankrupt. The Senate investigation found that the ratings agencies hadn't asked particularly probing questions of Enron and had glossed over warning signs like accounting irregularities. In other words, the ratings agencies didn't objectively and accurately rate...
...compared with 111 attacks last year. The pirates generally want cash, not trouble. They've treated their hostages well, and violence has been rare. All of that changed, of course, last week when a quartet of Somalis seized Phillips from the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama. In the wake of the U.S. action, some pirates and Somali warlords have pledged to take revenge on some of the more than 200 international sailors currently being held captive on the seas. (See a brief history of pirates...
...government, whose ships have been patrolling the Gulf of Aden as part of a multinational task force. "We'd like to implore President Obama to use all his resources and increase the commitment to ending this Somali pirate scourge," said Murphy, the Maersk Alabama's second-in-command. "Wake up. This crew was lucky to be out of it with every one of us alive, we're not going to be that lucky again...
...able to be racing right next to them. After the first 500, we were able to hold for middle 1000.”The second varsity eight was able to give the Tigers a run for their money, as both crews managed to leave Cornell and Bucknell in their wake and entered the last 500 meters of the race even with one another. That was when Princeton’s speed got the better of Radcliffe, and the Tigers, finishing at 7:32.2, defeated the Black and White by 2.9 seconds.“They’re known...
...Harvard softball (19-10, 5-3 Ivy) got a wake-up call in Green Line territory on Thursday afternoon, losing in a shutout to Boston University (25-11). Not including yesterday, the Crimson has been shut out in its last five losses...