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...Although Cromitie and company don't seem to have had any contact with more highly skilled international terrorism groups, that should not diminish the seriousness of the plot, says Carafano. "Oftentimes, it's the amateurs who are more likely to do harm - people who are more lucky than good," he says. "Timothy McVeigh didn't train in an al-Qaeda camp, after...
Sessions, Rep. Pete •accusation by that Obama plans to "diminish employment and diminish stock prices" for no other reason than to "inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill...
...which the "stress tests" indicated is possible, will dwindle. Investors may begin to think that the test criteria were too liberal. If that happens, the public's faith in the capacity of the federal government's ability to find systemic problems in the financial sector and solve them will diminish quickly. Nothing could be worse than the perception that both the regulated and the regulators have lost their ways. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...these are distant concerns given the more immediate problems associated with the purchase. The UC’s misguided attempt to buy 45 Mt. Auburn is likely to fail, and such a failure would diminish the UC’s already scant credibility and distract it from important items on its agenda, such as responding to the massive budget cuts sweeping the university...
...depend on the participation rate that the school sees in an early retirement incentive program for staff that will conclude next week, according to Marie H. Bowen, an assistant dean and chief human resources officer at the Law School. To supplement the results of the early retirement program and diminish the need for layoffs, the Law School will try to keep currently unfilled staff positions empty in order to trim operating expenses, Jackson said. But how effective this hiring “chill” will be at closing the gap in the school’s budget remains...