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...black dress, was awful. It was not my favorite dress ... I did not think it was the most flattering look on her for sure. I would like to say that we all get it wrong sometimes, and even [if you're] someone like Michelle Obama who has help and resources and a fantastic physique, you get it wrong sometimes. I think that endears her to women. We all get it wrong. It almost makes me feel better. If someone like that can get it wrong, goodness knows...
...predicting that a CIT failure would cause as much havoc in the financial market as the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers did last fall. CIT, which was founded 101 years ago, lends to hundreds of thousands of small businesses and also provides money to other firms, called factors, that help small businesses finance their day-to-day operations. In late 2008, the Treasury Department gave CIT $2.3 billion in federal assistance from TARP funds. But apparently, the Treasury Department's bar for bailouts has risen, and CIT isn't tall enough anymore. And while some bank stocks traded down on Thursday...
...another group was asked to repeat a non-expletive control word, such as that which might be used to describe a table. The result was that swearing not only allowed students to withstand the discomfort longer, but also reduced their perception of pain intensity. Curse words, the study found, help you cope...
...about its member companies, such as the type of Web traffic they generate, it can provide banks with additional data to determine a company's creditworthiness. "We are definitely not trying to take the place of the major banks," says Spelich. "What we are trying to do is help them understand a class of entrepreneur they typically don't do business with...
...loans that could come back to haunt the financial system and delay economic recovery. Some economists now say that policymakers will want to control credit more tightly in the second half of the year. Their challenge will be to ensure that small businesses that have seen little help thus far don't get further squeezed as the credit explosion is reined...