For those who believe excessive risk-taking on Wall Street was at the heart of the global financial crisis, sweeping reform on a scale not seen in 80 years was the necessary remedy to insure that a similar financial meltdown does not occur any time soon.

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But if non-eurozone investors decide to pull the three trillion euros in sovereign, corporate debt and equity investments from Italy and France - or even a part of it - that would spark a crisis on a scale likely to draw in the banks of non-crisis countries: Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

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On any scale Aramex has done well out of the global economic crisis.

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The financial crisis was triggered by a bout of corporate social irresponsibility on a massive scale that has tarnished the reputations of even the bluest of blue-chip companies.

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When his investors requested that the next tranche of financing be contingent on the company running the Nail It then Scale It process, it created a crisis that drove Greg to stop selling and start listening to the customer and understand what was missing in order to break through the barrier of customer adoption.

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Meanwhile, Tony Blair was accused of being too scared of Labour backbench opposition to his policy on Iraq to have a full-scale Commons debate on the crisis.

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