Word: orly
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But many believe that the speculation is unwarranted. "This bill doesn't materially change the products or activities that banks are interested in getting into," says George Bicher, bank analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown (speaking of mergers). As a practical matter, Bicher notes, Glass-Steagall lost its teeth long...
The new bill is also about making financial-services firms in the U.S. big enough to compete with universal banks in Europe and Japan. Banks there have long been free from the kind of separation that has ruled in the U.S. since Senator Carter Glass and Representative Henry Steagall bonded...
But the yelping over firms getting too big to fail is nothing compared with the wailings of privacy activists. They fear that companies engaging in a broad range of financial services will have carte blanche to, say, check bank records before granting health insurance. "This will legalize unprecedented and Orwellian...
THE ISSUE Whether patients would have the right to sue their health-maintenance organizations for deficient care or for being denied care
Wampler and her students illustrate the latest math concept in elementary education: kindergarten = first grade. Kindergarten--so fondly remembered by baby boomers for show-and-tell and building blocks--has changed. Standardized curriculum and testing in primary schools are causing what educators call "push-down" academics. The need to perform...