Officials also pledged legal and regulatory reforms, including amendments to the Bankruptcy Act to speed up collateral collection by creditors, tighter supervision and examination of accounts of financial institutions, and tougher disclosure requirements to promote transparency.
Instead, he will have to act with urgency to shore up an already-recessionary economy and ensure that the global financial crisis does not further destabilise New Zealand's financial sector.
Once again the Fed and global central banks have come to the rescue in a coordinated act to shore up confidence in the global banking system.
The FCC is trying to act quickly to keep the 911 system up to date with the constantly evolving cellphone industry--according to the commission, 14% of all adults now use cellphones as their only phones.
If President Bush is too befuddled or fearful to act now to shore up the dollar, the markets will force him to do so fairly soon.
Democrats and Republicans are to blame for that, but at least the law is an effort to get Wall Street to clean up its act.
The CA says it should not be down to animal rights groups to police the act, while the government says it is up to individual police forces how they resource it.
Organisers insist the aim of Earth Hour is to show that communities care passionately about climate change and want to keep up the pressure on governments to act decisively.
Why not use those ill gotten profits of such offensive companies to get those companies to clean up their act?
"A decision may be unpopular but ultimately the state has to act responsibly in a grown-up fashion to protect all people sometimes from risks that they wish to impose upon themselves, " Mr Needham added.
To ensure that the American Jobs Act is fully paid for, the President will call on the Joint Committee to come up with additional deficit reduction necessary to pay for the Act and still meet its deficit target.
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Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said he wants the state Legislature to act quickly to pass a law setting up a special election to fill Obama's seat.
We have said and made clear throughout this process that they should act and demonstrate living up to their responsibilities, that failure to act would result in consequences.
Pressure on Pakistan to clean up its act is bound to increase as a result of recent accusations that it helped Iran and Libya with their nuclear programmes.
When the next meltdown comes along, people will likely lose interest in Sheen who will have to clean up his act or learn to live much more frugally.
So the two teamed up to make better candy and picked up Australian chef Adam Melonas to act as Chief Innovation Officer.
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They realized that in order to reach customers they had to freshen up their act.
Since this problem is not just America's, perhaps we should leave it up to others to act.
So I don't think you have to fear that things are going to act differently with Jay up here.
This report provides new analysis on the impact to retailers and consumer spending if Congress fails to act to avoid taxes going up on 98 percent of Americans at the end of the year.
Folks, if you truly want to see Congress clean up its act, you're going to have to make them do it.
"The best way to proceed if you want to take big money out of politics and clean up the lobbying scandal is to act on a cross-party basis, " they added.
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But no matter who is ultimately determined to be of fault, and no matter how disturbing the failure might be to each of us, where is there a criminal act to be covered-up?
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Of course, car companies have to research problems before they can act, and they have to come up with repairs for thousands and millions of vehicles.
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The good news is that Mr Hollande and Pierre Moscovici, his finance minister, have at last woken up to the need to act.
But Britain's former special representative to Iraq, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, said failing to act in Falluja could mean more attacks in the run-up to the January elections.
The simplest way to do this is by setting up a Uniform Transfers to Minors Act account at a brokerage, mutual fund company or bank.
However, if you want to watch from the Grandstand Enclosure then you will have to smarten up your act.
Second of all, it sounds good and it sounds easy to say let's make the act apply to the whole country and let's come up with a formula to do that.
Ritchie Graves, a NOAA Fisheries Service biologist who makes sure federally owned dams are living up to their Endangered Species Act obligations not to kill too many salmon, said the survival rate for young salmon swimming downstream to the ocean has been higher than ever the past three years, hitting about 50 percent for sockeye.
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