But during the CNN interview, Tulafono conceded that the system "was not in place" when the tsunami struck.

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Mr Darling suggested that the government would underwrite the savings of any other bank that came to the Bank of England for help to promote "a stable banking system" in an interview with the BBC on Tuesday.

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The U.S. lackluster job market is as much to do with the 2008 financial crisis as it has to do with our education system, said Silverstein in an interview with me on Thursday.

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