Ms Merkel remains a strong favourite to defeat the SPD candidate (and foreign minister), Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in September.
Yet for Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, these difficulties are no reason to pull the troops out of Afghanistan.
Chancellor Merkel's success is also due in part to the weakness of her main challenger, the SPD candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
So now the SEC, by way the Frank-Dodd Act, wants to change that and make the hedge fund industry more transparent.
In other words, shareholders are taking advantage of the Frank-Dodd Act as an opportunity to have their say on pay policies.
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Among his allies, curiously, is Barney Frank -- the co-author of the law that authorizes fee caps in the first place.
El flamante ministro del Exterior de Alemania, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, dijo durante una visita a Washington esta semana que el gobierno de EE.
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The Audi A7 looked svelte at the Frank-Gehry design IAC headquarters building.
But Frank - along with Frank Church, that is the correct answer.
That will mean resolving bitter internal disputes between economic reformers such as the party's candidate, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and the party's powerful left wing.
For a while, he hung around with Frank -- who was still on the loose -- the school never cared if he came back.
The Social Democratic foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will go, but his successor, almost certainly Guido Westerwelle of the Free Democratic Party, has not yet arrived.
And he is said to be untidy and impatient with paperwork, unlike the immaculate Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a chancellery man who had been in line for the job.
Meanwhile, Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is expected to raise the issue of "secret" prisons in talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on Tuesday.
To some, one highlight of Avignon was a successful push by Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, to demand an inquiry into the causes and conduct of the war.
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Often accompanied by his sidekick Little Frank - a glove puppet made in his own image - Frank became a regular face on TV in the 1980s and 1990s.
While Merkel elsewhere distances herself from the idea of state aid for big, flailing businesses, her election rival, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, lauds the Magna-Opel deal on and supports aid for Arcandor too.
Later, when I wrote about the case for the New Yorker, I found staff members to be remarkably frank -- not just about Bouwer's crimes, but about their own institution's shortcomings.
After a day of talks, Democratic Congressman Barney Frank - who chairs the Financial Services Committee - told the Associated Press news agency that "a great deal of progress" had been made.
The Pontipee brothers, after all, are trapped in a dull, generic plot when they're not leaping over sawhorses, whereas there's a knowing awareness of form to Dr. Frank-N-Furter's gyrations that goes way beyond mere choreography.
Five more pages of the Diary of Anne Frank - the Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam house during World War II - have been found by researchers in the Netherlands.
And both major German political parties - Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats led by Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier - make clear there is no turning back from a close embrace of Russia.
The results of this labor are songs like "Frank's Wild Years, " a hilarious and sinister tale of a man -- Frank -- trapped in suburbia with a wife and pet dog that has a skin disease.
"From our point of view, the boycott of the Palestinians was always an injustice and we have to find a solution to overcome these problems, " Mr Abbas said on Thursday, after meeting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Frank-Paul Nuuausala's delightful reverse offload found Marshall, who produced a fine turn of pace to stretch England before passing inside to Jason Nightingale, and Hohaia's good support run was rewarded when he eluded the grasp of Ryan Atkins to touch down.
Within the exploding DIY community, Zooey Deschanel-inspired tuxedos or Lisa Frank-inspired leopard prints can be achieved on natural nails, and are just as popular as elaborately painted acrylics or tips adorned with Swarovski crystals (sometimes referred to as " treasure nails" for creating an effect that looks as though the nails were dipped in a treasure chest).
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First of all, the mayor of Cleveland, Frank Johnson -- Frank Jackson is here.
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The Dodd-Frank financial-reform law, for example, is expected to generate hundreds more separate disclosure rules.
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In the U.S., the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law gave shareholders a nonbinding say-on-pay vote starting in 2011.
Last year's Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law gave the CFTC more authority to pursue fraud charges.
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