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...formalize a highly controversial bailout plan in which a National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) would be created to remove the unpaid, property-linked debts from the banks' balance sheets. If approved by Parliament, which appears increasingly likely, NAMA would spend some $81 billion of taxpayer money to buy loans worth an estimated $70.5 billion at current market value. The so-called bad bank, as NAMA is sometimes called, will then manage the loans on behalf of the state for the next decade, by which time, the government assumes, the country's property market will have recovered. This assumption also explains...
...metal plow and a pesticide sprayer, but neither worked. To get subsidized soybean seeds, he spends a full day traveling by bus to a nearby town. It often takes two or three trips, and, with bus fares costing him 60? per roundtrip, he wonders if the cheaper seeds are worth the effort. What he really requires, he says, is better infrastructure to make him less dependent on the monsoon. Mandase believes that he might need a deeper well and electricity to run a pump - investments he could never afford on this own. In lieu of that, Mandase, with the local...
...surgeon or a hospital. "It's a chance for a primary-care doctor to be a hero again," says Dr. Thomas Graf, chairman of Geisinger's community-practice team. That's not the stuff of AA bond ratings or billion-dollar revenue streams, but it just might be worth more than both...
...much word on the contest's criteria, but if the honor of having your design emblazoned on shirts that some students will cherish for years isn't enough, the other incentives should make it worth your while. The creator of the best design will receive not only a free t-shirt, but also a "patented" gift basket "guaranteed to numb your body with pleasure, or at least have some cool goodies in it." Flyby isn't sure what these super extra awesome awards might be (besides that it probably won't be a basket of fruit and cheese...
...work of your governor, who has endeavored to make Massachusetts a clean energy leader -- from increasing the supply of renewable electricity, to quadrupling solar capacity, to tripling the commonwealth's investment in energy efficiency, all of which helps to draw new jobs and new industries. (Applause.) That's worth applause...