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...Immediately, the bank kicked up controversy. It refused to bail out Sogo, a hopelessly debt-ridden but beloved chain of department stores, forcing it into bankruptcy. And the bank initiated bankruptcy proceedings against First Credit Corp., Japan's biggest mortgage-loan specialist. Aside from overhauling its investment-banking business, Shinsei also launched a retail business featuring fee-free, 24-hour services at its network of 56,000 atms?a concept considered revolutionary here. Shinsei offers savers returns higher than those of traditional banks, at which, Yashiro notes, the annual interest income on a 1 million yen deposit?about...
...offered nothing. Yet the U.S. Veterans Administration gives more than $1,000 per month to former American soldiers exposed to dioxin. "It's so arrogant," complains Chuck Searcy, a humanitarian aid worker who served in Saigon in 1967 and 1968 as a U.S. Army intelligence specialist. "Why not use the same standard to offer assistance to the Vietnamese?" U.S. veterans sued for compensation; Nhan, the Red Cross president, says a group of Vietnamese are preparing to take legal steps of their own by filing a class action lawsuit against the U.S. government...
...after the worst bombings. Local residents in the city of Ryazan, south of Moscow, reported suspicious behavior to the police, who discovered a large quantity of an unknown powder. The FSB later claimed that they had been conducting an exercise, and that the powder was sugar, yet an explosives specialist from the city was quoted as saying that it was in fact hexogen, the substance that had wrought such horrible damage in Moscow and Volgodonsk. If the bombing was done by the FSB, Berezovsky said, Putin must have known. Until March of that year, he had been chairman...
...collected the most ground balls last year of any returner, is also the team’s face-off specialist...
...Digital is expected to conduct frantic talks with the English Football League, to renegotiate a $446 million rights contract that is now threatening the financial health of the strapped service, co-owned by Granada and Carlton. "The market's been plagued by excessive optimism," says Bill Gerrard, a specialist in sports finance at Leeds University Business School. "It's coming back to earth...