The causes of 1990-91 and 2007-09 were similar: Real estate collapse, stock market turbulence, financial engineering turkeys come home to roost, loan failures, taxes going up, a Middle Eastern war, a spike in oil prices and everybody de-leveraging at once.
In 1998 he opened an office in Bahrain, where First Eastern has a banking license.
Mr. Lu, manager at a power plant in eastern China, a unit of the state-owned China Guodian Corp.
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Late in the day, achy in the legs, I reached Cradle Hill, into whose eastern slope a great white chalk horse has been cut.
However, talking to entrepreneurs in eastern Europe a different picture emerges.
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Born in Patna in eastern India a year before partition, he reached Lahore as a teenager (after bouncing around the newly created Pakistan), when his father retired there as deputy inspector general of police.
The following month, Afghan forces reportedly captured a senior Pakistani Taliban commander in eastern Afghanistan, a few hours' drive from Swat.
The huge international support package for Hungary is a shocking turn of fortune for eastern Europe, a region that has enjoyed growth and stability for a decade.
Obasanjo said the talks in Nairobi are aimed at resolving three things: a sustained cease-fire in eastern Congo, a safe corridor for humanitarian assistance in the region, and the implementation of a lasting peace in Congo.
Cyprus is one of a handful of countries in the Eastern Mediterranean with a firm claim on one of the largest natural gas finds in the region, offering access to an estimated 50 to 60 tcf of gas and 1.7 billion barrels of crude in waters off its southeastern coast.
Israel has an important stake not only in those programs, but in certain U.S. programs, like the one that would create a sea-based, wide-area defense system that would allow the United States, by stationing a single naval cruiser in the Eastern Mediterranean in a crisis, to add a valuable layer to Israel's missile defenses.
The authorities expect a trickle of eastern workers, not a flood.
The cumulative effect is that Egypt is fast becoming a Middle Eastern version of Haiti: a country without meaningful tourism, minimal foreign investment, massive capital flight, and eventually an exodus of its best and brightest.
So I told her about a man I used to employ in eastern Zaire as a local guide and translator.
It all unfolds on Rook Island, a lush jungle supposedly somewhere in the eastern Pacific and a battleground between mercenaries, pirates and the indigenous Rakyat.
New York briefly pulled into a tie with Toronto for fifth place in the Eastern Conference with a 5-4 shootout win over Winnipeg before the Leafs (55) moved back ahead by two points.
Questions like those are at the heart of a new book by Timothy Garton Ash, a British historian of Eastern Europe, describing a nine-month stay during 1980 in what was then East Berlin.
Although a number of states saw a drop in the number of poor, some north-eastern states saw a rise in poverty levels.
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But he didn't really give the case much thought until 13 years later, when as a sophomore at Eastern Michigan University he attended a lecture by Mark Lane.
Mr Ferman developed a taste for British life while serving with the American air force at a base in eastern England, and gained a degree in English at Cambridge.
Wolfowitz taught himself Arabic in the nineteen-eighties, when he was working at the State Department. (He also speaks French, German, Hebrew, and Indonesian.) Last year, during a visit to a mosque in eastern China, he recited a prayer from the Koran in Arabic.
In nightlife-rich Potts Point, the hip and irreverent Ms. G's (a pun on the flavor-enhancing additive) serves up food with spicy eastern influences and a dose of native fun.
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Or that the chaos surrounding the potential overthrow of a Middle Eastern tyrant could turn out to be a messy bit of business that roils the oil market?
In one incident last November, Tamerlan confronted a shopkeeper at a Middle Eastern grocery store in Cambridge, near a mosque where he sometimes prayed, after seeing a sign there advertising Thanksgiving turkeys.
But now eight years after German unity, a young eastern author, Ingo Schulze, has produced a novel that has become an unexpected best seller.
Tripathi, who had been struggling with depression, was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black Eastern Mountain Sports ski jacket, glasses and a black Philadelphia Eagles wool hat.
Marketplaces, be they Ebay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ), the New York Stock Exchange, a Middle Eastern souk or an ancient agora, share a common characteristic: They are forums that bring together buyers and sellers.
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Mr Brahimi has been visiting a series of Middle Eastern capitals, putting forward a proposal for a ceasefire to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which starts at the end of the month.
Deats' unit now is investigating a traditional eastern European mob family believed to be involved in a separate cyberscheme.
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