Given the short time frame for action and the prospect of an intractable political clash, leaders in both government and business are already moving to avert a crisis that most likely would be "a recovery-ending event," as Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, testified recently in the Senate.
Reporting to the House of Commons on his recent trip to British Guiana, Mr. Sandys said he had failed to persuade the colony's clashing leaders to form a coalition government and "stop the bloodshed between their supporters".
Whatever the truth of the clash, Pashtun leaders who are opposed to the Taliban believe that much is riding on Mr. Karzai's mission.
After three militants and a policeman were killed in a recent clash nearby, leaders of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, the group Wani is believed to have joined, warned locals to stay away from security personnel, whom they planned to target.
Warrington's win sets up a mouth-watering clash with leaders Wigan on Saturday that sees the top two go face to face at the Halliwell Jones.
In his regular BBC Sport tactics column, Robbie Savage looks at Sunday's top-of-the-table clash between leaders Liverpool and second-placed Chelsea.
But Robinson, who is expected to make his Blues debut in Saturday evening's clash with leaders Brighton at the Amex Stadium, has not played since finishing last season out on loan with Leeds United.
The result lifts the Panthers up to second place in the South Group table ahead of their derby clash with leaders Surrey on Friday, while Essex are struggling in fifth.
The former rugby league player is available for selection for Friday's Premiership clash with leaders Harlequins after serving a four-week ban for dragging Alesana Tuilagi by his hair in the defeat by Leicester.
Mr. Blagojevich was vastly unpopular even among fellow Democrats, having clashed with leaders in Springfield about nearly everything.
