Germans are brought up to adore the Greece of Pericles, Socrates and Demosthenes, and the country of package holidays.
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Germany is having to pay more than any other country for the package - angering many German citizens and politicians.
The country secured an aid package early Monday, but at a steep cost, breaking a taboo by agreeing to tax depositors' holdings and hit another group that has generally been spared financial-crisis pain: senior bank bondholders.
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Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, a Republican whose district includes Newtown, called the proposal "the most comprehensive package in the country because of its breadth".
The deal is "the most comprehensive package in the country because of its breadth, " said Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, a Fairfield Republican whose district includes Newtown.
Euro-zone finance ministers did not agree to extend a new bailout package to the country and Prime Minister George Papandreou is facing a vote of confidence Tuesday, says Janet Mirasola, managing director of R.
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The Argentine government and the Fund are close to a state of open warfare: as the IMF continues to insist that any rescue package for the country depends on commitment to urgent reform, the Argentine finance minister on September 24th threatened to default on the country's debt to the Fund.
In this view, every country is systemic because every rescue package sets precedents and expectations for the future.
Morsy, meanwhile, is in negotiations for the country to get an economic rescue package from the International Monetary Fund.
Big depositors at Cyprus' largest bank may be forced to accept losses of up to 60 percent, far more than initially estimated under the European rescue package to save the country from bankruptcy, officials said Saturday.
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, has said the country can't afford the tax package.
In an address to the nation on Sunday night, newly-elected Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said the country must secure a 10 billion euro package or face economic collapse.
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Even some of Mr Bush's fellow Republicans, however, are questioning the size of his aid package for an oil-rich country.
For a country that just barely nailed down a bailout package worth about as much, this is not an easy task.
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Obama has made gun measures a major focus of his second-term agenda, holding events across the country to push for Congress to vote on the package.
Obama has made gun measures a major focus of his second term agenda, holding events across the country to push for Congress to vote on the package.
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Facing the ultimatum, the Cypriot government was racing to cement a new package that will please both Parliament and the country's potential international creditors.
Aides have said the West Coast trip marks the start of a series of road trips around the country aimed at pressuring lawmakers to pass the economic stimulus package.
Investors' fears regarding Greece's economic future were heightened following reports that finance officials from the euro zone are considering a delay to all or part of the second bailout package being prepared for Greece until after the country's general election, widely tipped to take place in April.
Italy passed a 70bn-euro austerity package earlier this month to reassure investors that the country will not succumb to the debt crisis.
As public pension benefits continue to be whittled away across the country, 457s become a more important part of the retirement package offered to government employees.
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"The biggest challenge in the first package was taking on special interests, " World Bank country director Dennis de Tray told Asiaweek.
But an election is looming in April, and Greece's rescuers insisted that the country's main political leaders should all sign up to the package.
It would also have included direct debits in the package, allowing a company or utility in one euro country to draw funds directly from a customer's bank account in another.
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Jennine and Don Smith, owners of a sports bar in Pasadena, the heart of Dodgers country, said they are considering purchasing a National Hockey League TV package to show games league-wide.
In America the new deficit-focused climate is preventing politicians from passing a temporary (and sensible) fiscal stimulus package without inducing them to tackle the sources of the country's huge medium-term deficit by, for instance, reforming social security.
The government plan to close down a large part of the country's loss-making mining industry is part of the reform package.
As well as trying to forge an overall financing package, lawmakers were meeting to decide the fate of the country's second largest lender Laiki which was hardest hit from its exposure to bad Greek debt.
The move was part of a package of measures known as the Collor Plan, aimed at combating the country's chronic high inflation.
In an ideal world, America's politicians would come up with a package of medium-term spending cuts and tax reforms to fill the country's fiscal gap.
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