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...Critics contend the plan does too much to stimulate demand for top-rated securities and not enough to draw in buyers for riskier bonds that have always been harder for banks to sell. "We need to get credit buyers back into the market," says John McElravey, director of asset-backed research at Wachovia Capital Markets. "But TALF only addresses part of the problem." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
Florida's Cuban-American GOP lawmakers, including Lincoln Diaz-Balart's brother and fellow Congressman, Mario Diaz-Balart, are also reaching out to other Latin Americans whose home countries have recently elected leftist leaders, most notably Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador. Some contend the effort is a strategic political move aimed at consolidating their power base during a palpable shift in the dynamic of Florida's Latino community - from traditionally Cuban and reliably Republican, to more Central or South American and Democratic or independent. While incumbents Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts all won re-election in November, their margins...
...continues to gain popularity in fantasy circles, but it has also pervaded the thinking of front offices in professional baseball, along with other sports.More and more, general managers supplement the advice of scouts with computer-generated projections and analysis. The trend has sparked resistance from old-school hardliners who contend that the statistical approach takes away from the human side of sports.“That’s really the big thing that emerged in the past few years,” says Jason Rosenfeld, Co-President of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective (HSAC). “You have...
...them. Health-care experts say this would have the effect of encouraging more people to buy their insurance individually, rather than getting it where they work. This approach has been criticized by many Democrats - including Obama, when John McCain embraced a version of it during the election campaign - who contend that relying on the individual market would put health-care consumers at a disadvantage to big insurance companies...
...results of the saber squad (13-15) were not exactly ideal, the sound performance of the foil squad (21-8) and the first place tie by the épeé squad (25-5) helped alleviate some of the disappointment, as the team proved that it can still contend with the top programs in the Ivy League. “This may have been the men’s best performance to date,” Brand said. In the individual championships, senior Benji Ungar shined in the individual men’s épeé event, taking...