Word: pulling
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...York Food Bank, notes that his organization's donations from direct mailings is down 27% from the same time last year. Like City Harvest, the New York Food Bank receives the bulk of its donations during the holidays, and Boroff is nervous about December. "If people start to pull back, there's going to be a dire impact on us," he says. "It's scary...
There's nothing like an external enemy to make a country pull together, and Britain, fractious and dissatisfied with its Labour government until recently, has found a fresh foe: Iceland. The tiny country's benign image as a land of geysers and the midnight sun has been swiftly eclipsed by its new incarnation as the mustache-twirling villain of the credit crunch. Britons - from private individuals to local government, charities and public bodies - have deposited some $34 billion in Iceland's financial institutions, among them Landsbanki, which went into receivership this week, and Kaupthing, the country's biggest bank, which...
...government would buy up the toxic securities such as CDOs (collateralized debt obligations) that are now poisoning bank balance sheets. The thinking has been that once financial institutions can unload this trash on the government, the gears of commerce will move again. But that takes time to pull off. "It's an inefficient way to inject capital," says Campbell Harvey, professor of international business at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. And it also has risk. "You are potentially injecting capital by buying assets from institutions that don't deserve...
...Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back...
...Republican Party, which bungled its way into grotesque budget deficits and finally turned all sensible people off with its theological crusade against the very existence of government—except, of course, for the biennial gesture of a gay-marriage referendum and legislation that would force black hooligans to pull up their pants (I’m not kidding). Even Bible-thumping racists realized that the need for roads and schools superseded these otherwise noble causes...