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In response to M.B.M. Zubair�s article which appeared in Daily News of November 5. In respect of the religious beliefs he has mentioned, I do not like to give any comments. Let�s see the last paragraph of the article �to import beef like in Bhutan because we have a very large herd of meat cattle in the dry zone. We lack foreign exchange and we cannot afford to waste our valuable foreign exchange to import beef which is available at our doorstep.... etc.� I wish to ask Zubair that �is foreign exchange more valuable than one�s life (even an animal)?� Do we use our valuable foreign exchange only to import beef or meat? When we go to a supermarket they are full of imported items. Don�t we use huge amount of foreign exchange for motor vehicles that cannot afford a country like ours? Don�t we import fuel for those imported vehicles? Zubair has also forgotten that how many Australian dairy farmers are getting rich, for we import so much milk food, while we have cattle in our doorsteps.
Citizens South hires Cornacchione as vice president in Rowan
Anthony L. "Tony" Cornacchione of Salisbury has been hired by Gastonia-based Citizens South Bank as vice president of commercial banking for Rowan County. Cornacchione was previously with SunTrust Bank as a commercial relationship manager. His 34 years of banking experience also includes work with Bank of Iredell (later United Carolina Bank) and First Union National Bank (now Wachovia). A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he also holds a degree from Mitchell College in Statesville and is a graduate of the Mid-Management Program at the N.C. School of Banking in Chapel Hill. He serves on the board of directors of Communities In Schools and the Centralina Development Corp. and is active with the United Way and the Chamber of Commerce.
Ministers warn PM of English resentment
GORDON Brown has received repeated warnings from Cabinet colleagues that he must act to stem growing English resentment over the fruits of devolution, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, and Peter Hain, the Welsh Secretary, have stressed to the Prime Minister in a series of recent conversations the need to address English concerns on public spending and Scottish MPs voting on English laws that do not directly affect them. .
Union 'is the key to global economy'
BREAKING up the UK would risk Scotland's place in a new world order, Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, said last night. The MP for Edinburgh South West told an audience at Stirling University that Scotland and England are better off together in facing the challenges from a fast-changing global economy. .
Smith salutes Rangers' resilience
WALTER Smith last night hailed his Rangers players as the most committed team in the Champions League after they ensured they will at the very least go into the final match of their Group E campaign with qualification for the knock-out stages in their own hands. The Rangers manager savoured a goalless draw against Barcelona at Ibrox which means, no matter the outcome of their next two away games in the Nou Camp on 7 November and at VfB Stuttgart on 27 November, his side will make it to the last 16 if they defeat Lyon at home on the final matchday on 12 December. .
Recession talk could remain just that–talk
ADD $100 oil to billions in bank write-offs and it should come as no surprise that the word "recession" is being heard with increasing frequency. As is the view that circumstances have combined to neuter the Federal Reserve Board, making it powerless to use its monetary-policy weapon to prevent a downturn. It’s not the write-offs so much as the inability of the chiefs of the leading banks to come close to estimating the magnitude of the problem. Stan O’Neal might have survived at Merrill Lynch, and Charles Prince at Citigroup, if their first public estimates of their firms’ exposure to losses from sub-prime and related lending had been almost correct, rather than huge understatements that led investors to believe that enough shoes to fill Imelda Marcos’s closets have yet to drop.
I'll make you £10K richer says Swinney
EVERY household in Scotland will be £10,000 a year better off within a decade, Finance Secretary John Swinney claimed yesterday. The growth in average wealth will be delivered by boosting small and medium-sized businesses, investing in industries of the future and better training, resulting in better-paid jobs, said Swinney. .
Fortis Earns $30.8 Million in Third Quarter
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR--(Marketwire - Nov. 2, 2007) - Fortis Inc. ("Fortis" or the "Corporation") (TSX:FTS - News), reported net earnings applicable to common shares of $30.8 million, or $0.20 per common share, for the third quarter of 2007, compared to earnings of $38.8 million, or $0.37 per common share, for the same quarter last year. Year-to-date earnings applicable to common shares were $113.8 million, or $0.86 per common share, compared to earnings of $113.3 million, or $1.09 per common share, for the same period last year. .
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