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Even if the $700 billion is spent efficiently on buying up toxic assets, though, it may not be sufficient. The Treasury may yet go back to Congress begging for additional dollars from a new administration if the initial allowance doesn't yield sufficient liquidity. And having fewer junky assets on their books may not cure banks of stinginess in the current climate of constraint. "Once confidence is destroyed, it's not easily restored," says Angel...
...workers and producers last January to raise wages 12.5%. Workers say some producers have not been paying them the stipulated rate (and some complain that they haven't been paid at all for months) and that they have resorted to a strike only after repeated warnings failed to yield results. The strikers argue there is no justifiable reason why producers should not be paying up, given the prosperity the industry is enjoying as a result of booming demand. Bollywood recorded revenues close to $1.9 billion in 2007, which are likely to rise to $3.9 billion by 2012, while advertising revenue...
Jean J. Baptise, the Cambridge Police Department officer conducting the accident report, said Goldin will be cited for failing to yield, an infraction that carries a minor fine...
...Africa, to grow food for the U.N.'s World Food Program, the biggest food aid distributor in Africa. Rather than simply buying the farmers' crops outright, much of the money will go to teaching better farming methods, and to helping them store their crops in warehouses, plant higher-yield seeds, and transport their produce to customers. Those are all serious obstacles for poor farmers, many of whom find it almost impossible to eke out more than a bare-bones existence from their plots...
...governor's family. The investigation has since been painted by John McCain and Palin backers as a purely partisan exercise, particularly because the committee chair, state senator Hollis French, is an Anchorage Democrat who made several seemingly prejudicial statements to the media early on, including that the probe could yield an "October surprise" right before the election. Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton says French has already made up his mind about the governor's guilt and at this point is "just leading people into an ambush...