The US was resisting any legally binding financial obligation, the Chinese anything that let rich countries off the financial hook.
Saltwater anglers briskly shook free from a financial hook last week and won't have to buy licenses to fish, after all.
"With state taxpayers on the financial hook when a municipal broadband network goes under, it is entirely reasonable for state legislatures to be cautious in limiting or even prohibiting that activity".
26 are counting on California's current political dysfunction to keep them off the financial hook for the pollution they cause in our backyard.
"The telex network is closed you can't get in unless you are part of the club," says Peter MacLaverty of SwissTelex.Small financial institutions not hooked up to the main international money-transfer system, SWIFT, find telexes a cost-effective alternative.
The Hacienda was also famous for its financial mismanagement and Hook has claimed it lost his band £18m.
Her father is a caterer and financial adviser in Red Hook.
But, given that global markets and financial firms are all hooked up through complex trading programs, the indirect impact could be significant.In these two cases there was no news of big losses.
But our economies and financial markets have been hooked on the drug of cheap money for longer than at any time in history.
It was just a matter of time before Hollywood got its hooks into the financial crisis.
