Word: warrens
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...That did not deter the governor, apparently. The same day, Blagojevich suggested starting a nonprofit lobbying organization, known as a 501(c)(4), which he could eventually work for, and proposed getting Obama's friend "Warren Buffett or some of those guys to help us on something like that." In a separate conversation on the same day, he suggested that Obama and his associates "can get Warren Buffett and others to put $10, $12 or $15 million into the organization" and then suggested that he could retire from the governorship to go over to the organization...
...Harvard Law School professor who heads the congressional panel that oversees the federal bailout said that the government has yet to lay out a sound plan for dealing with the financial crisis. Professor Elizabeth Warren told The New York Times on Tuesday the government’s actions so far have lacked clarity and direction. Warren said she believes that if need be, the government should not shy away from repairing individual families’ financial health. “Household financial health is profoundly tied to the economic health of the nation. You cannot repair this economy...
...instantaneous and crippling effect on cultural production. In fashion and its allied trades, the contraction in the economy forced an untimely end to the "Designer Boom" that defined the Tokyo high street for much of the 1980s ... [But in Harajuku], a tentative sense of revival was afoot. In its warren of side-streets, ancient storefronts and crumbling housing complexes, a scrappy group of designer/proprietors, many of them looking fresh out of high school, began to open apparel stores... enterprising magazine editors took to calling this retailing boom-let the "Ura-Harajuku Movement" and the semantic hype was soon matched...
...already 16 months into this mess; we're at least four months into what could be the most serious and worrisome phase of the downturn. So the clock is ticking. Yes, there will be more bankruptcies and bailouts and job cuts. Yet no less an investor than Warren Buffett is making stock investments now, planning to be there for the long haul. The stock market is closely tied to the economy, even though the two often run in very different directions. The market is always looking ahead six to nine months and is a gauge of what investors collectively believe...
...about 100. The final choices were then made by a national committee of two dozen people. “It’s a very strong selection committee,” said CPL Director David R. Gergen, who co-chaired the committee with University of Southern California professor Warren Bennis. “It is composed of former honorees as well as faculty members from universities across the country and an assortment of others who have been interested in the project.” The CPL also recently published its annual “National Leadership Index...