And part of the reason it has never properly recovered is that those who control vast pots of money in Boston, Singapore, Geneva and so on are concerned that big Western banks are weaker then they seem (so a big hello again to "forbearance").

BBC: Business

They looked able to tear the Swansea defence apart at will in the second half as they recovered from Graham's early opener to take complete control.

BBC: Swansea 2-3 Norwich

Investigators on Friday recovered an unexploded bomb and other explosives material from what they said was the "control centre" for the attacks - room 1808 in the Marriott.

BBC: Fugitive linked to Jakarta blasts

If they could buy hotels cheaply, they could both maintain control over the properties and resell them at a tidy profit when the market recovered.

ECONOMIST: Asia��s hotels

Furthermore, compliance with the RoHS directive(1) and REACH regulations(2) regarding the safety of chemicals in ICT products has made it challenging to control the quality of recycled plastics, and until now it has been impossible to reuse recovered plastic in a computer bodies.

ENGADGET: Fujitsu making laptops from unwanted CDs and DVDs