What is more, America's endorsement of the Vance-Owen plan would depart from long-standing U.S. policy to oppose the changing of borders by the use of force -- the practical effect of its parcelling out ethnic fiefdoms.
Those who have been trusted banking customers could be shunned by their long-standing loan officers, regardless of the strength of their business plan.
She's a member of the Senate Banking Committee , and that has hurt her standing back home when they're talking about the bailout, not the rescue plan but the bailout.
Until we put in place a concrete plan and structure that sends a clear signal to the markets that Europe is standing behind the euro and will do what it takes, we're going to continue to see the kinds of turmoil that we saw in the markets today -- or was it yesterday?
The initial plan was to bar Mr Livingstone, a former leader of the Greater London Council, from standing in the party's primary on the ground of disloyalty.