Indeed, the vast majority of these retired officers, including the authors of this week's op-ed, retired before the current "don't ask, don't tell" policy even began in 1994.
The Journal's op.ed. pages feature an extraordinary essay by Sarah Steelman, the State Treasurer of Missouri, which calls national and international attention to the newest instrument for defeating state-sponsors of terrorism: Terror-free investing.
When asked about Mr. Portman's op-ed, Mr. Ryan told reporters Friday that he hadn't yet read it but planned to, pulling a printed copy out of his jacket pocket as he walked onto the House floor for a vote.
The Co-op's bank will operate off Lloyds' IT systems, and Lloyds is providing the senior management of the Co-op's enlarged bank.
Then there was then-CNN news chief Eason Jordan's remarkable op-ed in The New York Times in April 2003.
Tesco's move, preceded by the Co-op's purchase of the Alldays chain earlier this week, has shown that convenience stores are in demand.
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Mr Cable suggested in his speech that the future business bank could work with commercial banks such as the UK's Co-Op, and the British operation of Swedish lender Handelsbanken.
In response to Tony Hayward's June 4 op-ed " What BP Is Doing about the Gulf Gusher": It is time that the publicity spin that BP is putting on this disaster is put into perspective.
Which explains why bankers close to Lloyds have been making very positive noises about the Co-Op's chances of winning the auction for Verde, even though the Co-op is yet to make a bid.
It's a photo-op, but an informal swearing-in ceremony, and that's taking place actually this afternoon.
Yet Obama's Wall Street Journal op-ed today, which announced the executive order, utterly glossed over the Environmental Protection Agency's C02 rules, the FCC's unauthorized net neutrality push and the torrent of rules yet to come from the health care and financial reform bills.
The chain nets a high 8% of sales before taxes and patronage refunds to the co-op's members.
In other words, it's tough, if not impossible, to tell that it's a co-op simply by looking at it.
Intoxicated by their rapid expansion, the co-op's managers poured money into fresh investment.
For now these members must buy their gear through the co-op's catalogs or on its rapidly growing Web site (www.rei.com ).
See if he really is hammering those nails in the Habitat for Humanity houses or if it's only a photo op.
The non-bankers on the Co-op's top board may not have asked tough enough questions about the true state of health at their bank.
On the other hand, NBNK is confident that its IT systems skills - terribly important in any bank acquisition - are superior to the Co-op's.
And among other recent announcements from stores on green issues, Tesco has said it plans to follow the Co-Op's lead by making its carrier bags biodegradable.
The Co-Op's board yesterday decided that the new regulatory burdens being placed on banks and the weakness of the economy makes banking a much less attractive business.
On this week's Wall Street Journal op-ed page, Ronald Kessler, Chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com, a conservative political Web site, condemned Obama for his ties to this pastor.
In the case of Tesco, Wiseman had increased the amount it supplied by 10% and had won a contract to supply all of the Co-op's milk from August 2011.
"While nobody suffered any financial loss, Co-op's actions meant that a significant number of people had the resolution of their valid complaints delayed for no good reason, " she added.
Most important, however, is how the Co-op's withdrawal from the Lloyds deal highlights the tension between the government's twin ambitions - of making banks safer through increased and improved regulation and promoting competition.
The FSA has told the Co-Op that if it goes ahead with the deal, there will be regulatory consequences that the Co-Op's management regards as onerous - heavy enough, probably, to kill the deal.
And here is one important reason why the non-bankers on the Co-op's board are nervous about getting bigger in banking: they are acutely aware of how the non-bankers at HBOS, Sir James Crosby, Andy Hornby and Lord Stevenson, were pilloried by MPs earlier this month for making a total horlicks of their bank.
On some level, the home, whether it has a white picket fence or not, whether it's a condo or a co-op or a detached home, that's the American dream.
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