Word: perilously
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...countries about to join the euro zone. Designed to discourage governments from destabilizing the euro zone by borrowing too much, the rules limit national deficits to no more than 3% of gross domestic product. Countries that go over that limit can face fines. (See pictures of Europe in peril...
...bank owned by the government offers business loans at 3% interest, what does a foreign-based public bank like DeutscheBank do to match that? A government-owned bank can be driven, at least short-term, by policy and not profits. That puts financial firms in the private sector in peril whenever they try to compete. The relationship between a national U.S. bank and private banks both inside and outside the U.S. causes a series of inequities within the system...
...growing peril facing the logistical route in Pakistan - notwithstanding Washington's plans to increase the deployment of U.S. troops in Afghanistan - has prompted the U.S. to turn to Russia for help. Last month, after visiting Moscow, U.S. Central Command chief General David Petraeus announced that the U.S. had reached a tentative agreement with Russia on using its territory to supply the Afghanistan mission. And Medvedev seemed keen to reaffirm that cooperation, even as Bakiyev made his announcement about the Manas base. "No one is trying to evade responsibility," Medvedev said, emphasizing that Russia and Kyrgyzstan would continue to cooperate with...
...company could use new people for expansion but cannot afford them, having 50% of their first year's salary paid by the federal government gives it the opportunity to grow.. This proposal would allow firms which have let people go to save money, even at the peril of the viability of their businesses, the chance to bring them back...
...conservative columnist George Will's house. This is radical behavior in the village on the Potomac. It could force everyone to argue more carefully, to think twice before casting aspersions, to remember that the goal has to be more than temporal electoral victories - but, in this moment of peril, a better and stronger nation, a less ugly and dangerous world...