An unsettling question has begun to nag as Team Obama's conduct of security policy becomes ever more inconsistent with common sense - and, at least in some cases, manifestly at odds with our national interests: Whose side are they on?
And how are they going to compensate those whose lives they are currently affecting so grievously?
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The problem is obvious, that the rating agencies are paid their fees by the same firms whose products they are rating.
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Investors are also comforted by the thought that many of the countries whose debt they are eagerly snapping up appear to have mended their economic ways.
Rather these firms have completely misrepresented the services they provide, how they are paid and whose interests they have really been putting first.
Financial advisers and sales staff can no longer be paid commissions by the firms whose policies they are selling.
One way to solve that problem would be for Democrats to come out and say whose side they are on.
Well bankers and regulators tell me it is the potential disaster for whose impact they are putting in place contingency plans.
The sample remains merely a number throughout testing, ensuring the scientists performing the analysis do not know whose they are dealing with.
The personal side of the equation can lead lots of voters to shy away from candidates with whose policies they are in general, albeit imperfect agreement.
Retirement is another area where captains of industry have looked after themselves first before taking care of those whose interests they are supposed to be looking after.
We should just maintain a healthy does of skepticism toward all sides, but also point out the good ideas when we see them regardless of whose ideas they are.
Drug regulators, who do get access to some of the hidden results, often guard them jealously, even from academic researchers, seeming to serve the interests of the firms whose products they are supposed to police.
The new policies will also stop, from the end of 2013, the practice of businesses such as fund supermarkets or online discount stockbrokers accepting payments from some of the investment funds whose policies they are selling.
However, another aim is to stop, from the end of 2013, the widespread practice of businesses such as fund supermarkets or online discount stockbrokers accepting payments from some of the investment funds whose policies they are selling.
Ministers and officials in the province draw a distinction between the Punjabi groups, whose activities they say are sectarian or directed mainly at India and whose avowed agenda is therefore not domestic terrorism (killing minorities apparently doesn't count), and the Pakistani Taliban, which is attacking the Pakistani state and is therefore a domestic-terrorist outfit.
The researchers hypothesized that two groups of women may opt out: women whose earnings are so low they may not be able to afford child care and women whose family earnings allow them to forgo personal earnings.
The FDA and some doctors have expressed concern that drugs like Lipitor are different because they treat conditions whose symptoms are not as obvious as those addressed by Claritin or Prilosec.
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They said the kidnapping was a warning to the U.S. and British governments, whose policies they said are pro-Israel.
He is the most senior Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) official whose whereabouts are known after they were ousted.
In ten pilot projects, teams led by nurses will make frequent visits to families whose children they reckon are at risk.
At Tom Price, Rio Tinto's biggest mine in the area, managers point out scrub-covered hillsides whose cultural significance they are debating with the authorities.
The risk is exacerbated by the fact that many credit guarantee companies were capitalized with loans from the same banks whose other loans they are guaranteeing.
The problem is, is the number of people whose mortgages are underwater where they actually have a home value that's now less than their mortgage is a lot bigger than that.
Now the government has taken action that will be applauded in other cities whose residents believe they are being poisoned by traffic fumes: Bangkok, Beijing and Kuala Lumpur, to name but three.
We're using this for people whose eyes are yellow, they're not moving, and you're telling doctors to cool these people for 24 hours, warm them up for a day, then take them to the cath lab.
To the extent that bonafide democratic reformers are pressing for such technology and I believe they are less insistent on this form of assistance than are others whose credentials as reformers and motives are more suspect they may simply not know how serious the technology security problem is.
"People living without heating because they cannot afford to pay the bills, people not leaving their homes because they cannot afford transport, people whose homes are becoming unsafe to live in because they cannot afford basic repairs, " she said.
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