By the summer of 2007, when Ms. Warren proposed the consumer agency, she was a well-known advocate for financial consumers — and the scourge of the credit card industry.
"While regulators are working hard to address the scourge of financial fraud, education is key, particularly with hundreds of millions of Americans' personal information readily available to criminals," Gentile said.
But I'm also happy to say that I've just learned about a few government and private initiatives starting to seriously attack the scourge of financial exploitation of older Americans — considered the most prevalent form of elder abuse.
I wasn't too surprised, then, when he recently told shareholders that he thinks some of the biggest opportunities in 2008 will come from two of the market's current scourges: financials and consumer stocks.
Mongi Bousnina, director general of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization, said Arab countries needed to "mobilize human and financial resources toward eradicating the scourge of illiteracy".
While Tony Blair and Gordon Brown pampered the banks, George Osborne and the Conservatives were demanding still less regulation, and even the Liberal Democrat Vince Cable, now the bankers' scourge, endorsed a financial "light touch".
"It's about: Do you want Elizabeth Warren in the Senate?" Ms. Warren has aggressively promoted her credentials as a defender of the middle class and scourge of the financial industry, boasting in her first television ad that she "worked to expose how Wall Street and the big banks are crushing middle-class families".
We will join with governments from around the globe, civil society organizations, business, academics and scientists to pledge political and financial commitment to ending the scourge of undernutrition.
His "Concept Note" suggested that responsibility to protect was redecorated colonialism, and that the true means to eliminate genocide and similar scourges included world financial reform, Security Council reform and drawing a lesson from Jesus.
Amvescap, another American fund manager, inadvertently sent an e-mail to British investors suggesting that it expects a fine of $300m to settle similar charges.Eliot Spitzer, the scourge of America's financial institutions, found a new target.
