Atabay described his sorry finances standing outside his station, watching a car pull inside NITV's security gates.
Last month, for example, parliament's powerful finance standing committee issued a 48-page report attacking UID, calling it hasty, directionless, ill-conceived and saying it must be stopped.Headed by Yashwant Sinha, a stalwart of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, the committee was eager to throw all criticism possible at the scheme.
The next day each sat down before a personal-contact list loaded into an assigned laptop, with dozens of technical support staff and campaign finance advisers standing by to assist.
Speaking earlier at the conference, John Longworth, director general of the BCC, described small and medium-sized firms as the "engine room" for jobs and exports, but issued a stark warning that our "inadequate system of business finance" is standing in their way.
I am sorry that I was unable to join you for yesterday's opening session -- and I thank Karin Sham Poo, our Deputy Executive Director for Internal Management, Administration and Finance, for standing in for me.
But for equity underwriting alone -- a far more lucrative business than bond financing -- Chase's standing barely budged.
This year's crowded field — the numbers of candidates buoyed not just by term limits but also by the new public campaign financing system — makes standing out that much harder.
If Ms Rousseff chooses him to be her chief of staff, or better yet, returns him to the finance ministry, her standing with businessfolk will soar.
A man who works in finance and was standing near the bar of Merkato 55 the following Saturday started to talk about this issue, but then he had second thoughts, saying he could be fired for drawing attention to the subject in the news media.
Since the Flast case, she writes, "no court -- not one -- has differentiated between these sources of financing in deciding about standing".
