Keeping corporations from buying elections in America isn't some recent reform; it's not just the touch-up adjustment of the McCain- Feingold Act - it's as old as Teddy Roosevelt. The trust-busting Republican president represented, in his zeal to free democracy from being bought and sold away from the people, the best kind of American populism.
The sudden bout of arms deals also may be a delayed result of the end in the 1980s of many military governments in the region, said Adam Isacson, director of the Latin American security program at the Center for International Policy in Washington. Brazil leads the buying spree- with $27 billion paid or contracted in 2008, according to the Loaiza report- as it seeks to protect vast new oil and natural gas deposits found offshore and increase its control of the vast Amazon.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Bank of America said Friday it will buy Countrywide Financial for $4.1 billion in stock, a deal that rescues the country's biggest mortgage lender and expands the financial services empire of the nation's largest consumer bank. The acquisition will make Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. the nation's biggest mortgage lender and loan servicer.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Gul Akbar's tiny store is crammed from floor to ceiling with rolls of electric cables, plugs of all sizes and piles of extension cords. Virtually everything comes from China, as do most of the appliances and electronics being sold in Kabul's busy Nader Pashtun Market. Not far away, the sparkling 10-story glass-and brick Jamhuriat Hospital rises in the midst of Afghanistan's war-torn capital. Beijing gave $25 million and the Chinese workers to build it.
DALLAS, Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- David Hicks, co-president of Dallas-based HomeVestors of America, Inc., the #1 buyer of houses in the U.S., is often asked for advice based on the company's 15-year track record helping investors buy and sell "ugly houses. The first franchise company of its kind, with just under 200 franchises in 33 states, HomeVestors trains and supports its independently owned and operated franchisees who specialize in buying houses at a discount and rehabbing single-family residential properties. Following is his advice to prospective investors in existing single-family homes. For more information, visit http:// www.homevestors.com/.
Wilkinson, an emeritus professor of American studies and history at England's University of Sussex, has crafted a book that will interest students of higher education policy, students seeking to understand the history of American colleges and universities, and anyone focused more generally on the history of u.s. institutions. Wilkinson's book should be required reading for admission and financial aid officers, college presidents, lawmakers, and boards of trustees.
As estimates of oil spilling in the Gulf of Mexico increase, ad makes the case for a transition to clean, renewable energy WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history unfolding before us in the Gulf of Mexico, the Alliance for Climate Protection is releasing a new ad illustrating how the Deepwater Oil Disaster is a deafening wakeup call that we need to end our dependence on fossil fuels.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - In a bold move that reinforces Bank of America Corp.'s dominance of consumer banking in the United States, the nation's third-largest bank said Thursday that it will buy credit card leader MBNA Corp. in a deal worth $35 billion in stock and cash. The acquisition reshapes the landscape for banks that issue credit cards - including many of Bank of America's top rivals - and transforms the Charlotte-based bank into one of the world's largest holders of consumer debt.
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