Word: hectored
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...flush more than just King out into the open. While it falls to the Bank of England to shore up stability in the country's banking sector, it's the job of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to supervise individual banks. Callum McCarthy, the regulator's chairman, and CEO Hector Sants are now set to appear in front of the parliamentary committee next month. Alistair Darling, the U.K. Chancellor, is expected to show too. Expect the FSA to come in for even more criticism than King, reckons Buik. In the longer term, though, King's banking that the crisis leaves...
...strange goings-on was his proclamation that Venezuela will move its time zone back by a half hour, starting in the third week of September. The government expects the measure to give Venezuelans a more equitable distribution of sunlight and, in the words of science and technology minister Hector Navarro, help "organize the country and social life in a more rational manner." Upon hearing the proclamation, a U.S. newspaper suggested recent headlines made the Caracas press read like The Onion, and drew comparisons between Venezuela and Woody Allen's film Bananas. In that movie, Allen's revolutionary hero-turned-president...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez wants to help citizens improve their metabolism and efficiency, so on Jan. 1, 2008, he plans to move clocks ahead 30 minutes. During a seven-hour radio address, Chávez said that "the human brain is conditioned by sunlight" and Technology Minister Hector Navarro noted that more daylight hours would benefit "all Venezuelans in their jobs and studies...
...appreciated Nancy Gibbs' writing and Hector Emanuel's photography. Nothing like the V.T. shooting has happened here, and I am extremely thankful that I now have a better understanding of the event and, therefore, deeper sympathy. The photos were very beautiful and painfully haunting. The one of Cho with the gun pointed at the camera was particularly troubling. I had never been moved to tears by a photo before. Thank you most of all for putting pictures of victims on the cover rather than a picture of the murderer...
...Hector tells Andromache in the sixth book of the Iliad, who ‘must see to the fighting,’†explains the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, in the opening of a breezy 1990 tract entitled “Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives...