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Search results for "liquidation" ...
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The Fed's Secret Liquidity Lifeline
The stories reveal the first details of the Federal Reserve's unprecedented bailout of hundreds of banks and other companies during the financial crisis.
Tags: Federal Reserve; Goldman Sachs; bailout; banks
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SEUS Liquidation
"These stories detailed the events leading up to the court-ordered, Oct. 27 liquidation of Atlanta-based Southeastern U.S. Insurance Co. (SEUS) and the impact on its policyholders."
Tags: SEUS; liquidation; Atlanta; southeastern; insurance; workcompcentral; clark fain; SOWEGA; Georgia;
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Dateline NBC: Inside the Cell
Dateline NBC investigates an alleged terrorist plot to blow up a transatlantic airliner in flight using liquid explosives concealed as sports drinks. Some critics challenged the viability of the plot and the new security measures restricting liquids on airplanes. However, Dateline discovered the conspiracy was far more developed than the public had known and that plotters had received direction from individuals linked to al-Qaida's senior leadership.
Tags: al-Qaida; terrorism; airline; explosive; Pakistan; counterterrorism; Great Britain; London
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Methadone Clinics
WCAU-TV "documented drug dealing going on right in front of a drug rehabilitation clinic in Pennsylvania" where a patients are treated with liquid methadone. "There's evidence some patients at this clinic and across the state ...are selling their doses to addicts on the street."
Tags: drugs; addiction; liquid methadone; drug dealing; rehabilitation; clinics; state government; death; health;
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The Red Team
"Nearly six years after 9/11, classified test results leaked to 9NEWs show Transportation Security Administration screeners at Denver International Airport failed to find about 80% of weapons, like bombs and liquid explosives, carried by federal undercover agents called the Red Team. Denver is just one of many airports nationwide that are failing the tests, according to the Dept. of Homeland Security's OIG and US Government Accountability Office."
Tags: airports; security; homeland security; transport security association; TSA; bombs; weapons; flight safety
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De Kooning's Hidden Legacy
Willem de Kooning was an artist who succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease in the late 1980s. Yet, he continued to paint until 1990, and his daughter and only child Lisa de Kooning and John Eastman, his longtime lawyer's son, were appointed conservators of de Kooning's works and estate. They faced a challenge in trying to get fans to accept his later paintings not as the work of a man afflicted with Alzheimer's, but as worthy additions to his large catalog. Eastman and de Kooning liquidated Willem de Kooning's art holdings and attempted to create a market for his work, with the paintings "being placed in prestigious public and private collections."
Tags: Art; Alzheimer's Disease; Willem de Kooning; paintings
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LNG: County Caught in the Crossfire
In California there are two warring views toward liquid natural gas (LNG. One is that California faces an imminent energy shortage if LNG isn't used. The other is that LNG is a fireball waiting to happen. Neither are completely correct. While domestic supply is lagging, it is a small gap that has led to highly profitable companies who import LNG. However, there are some real concerns about the locations of LNG import facilities.
Tags: natural gas; liquid natural gas; offshore
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Liquid Assets--Turning water into gold
Due to a unique water ownership structure established nearly two decades ago, suburban Denver communities have been forced to pay the highest water connection fees in the country. According to this investigation, this has created a competition for resources to fuel the booming population growth in the suburbs, creating an "unregulated and often untraceable commodities market in Colorado."
Tags: Big Thompson system; utilities; population growth; economic growth; Denver; commodities
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Examining Medical Malpractice
A Morning Call investigation of PHICO, a medical malpractice insurer recently put in liquidation, reveals that insurance moves played a major role in drying up the market for malpractice insurance and causing doctors' insurance rates to rise. Doctors and lawyers had accused each other of causing the malpractice insurance crisis, but the Morning Call showed that insurance industry is to blame.
Tags: medical; malpractice; insurance; PHICO; doctors; lawyers; market; increase; skyrocket
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Liquid Assets: A Water-Policy Critic Tries Going Corporate To Tap New Market
The Wall Street Journal reports on the emerging of a private market "to acquire, store and ship huge quantities of water across the arid region" of Sausalito, California. The story examines the new corporate role of author Marc Reisner, who has become a player in the fledgeling water business. The article looks at factors that can potentially contribute to drought in the West, and examines the industry expectations for agreements, mergers and acquisitions among the largest water companies. The reporter also sheds light on the environmentalists' standpoint and finds that some are opposed, but many welcome a private water market, since it is expected "to bring new efficiencies to the arena, making more water available fro fish and wildlife."
Tags: agriculture; farming; drought; U.S. Filter; Vivendi; subsidies; politics; Vidler Water Co.; environment; wildlife; "Cadillac Desert"; Sierra Club