That might sound like a lot, but it's a drop in the $325 billion flood of mortgage securities packaged and sold by Bear Stearns, WaMu and JPMorgan Chase from 2005 to 2007.
Then there was the endless flood of gifts: from care packages of Skippy peanut butter for friends in East Asia to the prize seat he arranged for his mother at a Christmas Eve Mass at St . Patricks Cathedral, just a row from the mayor and the police commissioner.
The arrival of the holiday season always brings a flood of campaigns for mainstay packaged-food brands sold by companies like Campbell Soup, ConAgra, Del Monte, Frito-Lay, General Mills, Goya, Hershey, Kellogg, Kraft Foods, Mars, Nestlé, Pinnacle Foods, Reckitt Benckiser, J. M. Smucker and Unilever.
Mr Rose said although stock was able to survive flooding, a lot of packaging and machinery used for scuba diving such as compressors had been damaged.
They couldn't even see the flood of bogus mortgages being spit out by the millions and packaged into mortgage-backed securities and more complex instruments.
"But the best short-term indication I have that it's working is the flood of calls we had in the days after the introduction of plain packaging accusing the government of changing the taste of cigarettes," Ms. Plibersek said.
(Press release) Japan offers lifeline to Bangladesh flood victims DHAKA, BANGLASESH - The Government of Japan has agreed to provide 103 million Japanese Yen (approximately US$940,000) to UNICEF Bangladesh for emergency water and sanitation activities, as part of Japan's $5.9 million flood assistance package for Bangladesh.
Japan provides US$940,0000 for flood assistance to UNICEF Bangladesh DHAKA, BANGLASESH - The Government of Japan has agreed to provide 103 million Japanese Yen (approximately US$940,000) to UNICEF Bangladesh for emergency water and sanitation activities, as part of Japan's $5.9 million flood assistance package for Bangladesh.
Japan offers lifeline to Bangladesh flood victims DHAKA, BANGLASESH - The Government of Japan has agreed to provide 103 million Japanese Yen (approximately US$940,000) to UNICEF Bangladesh for emergency water and sanitation activities, as part of Japan's $5.9 million flood assistance package for Bangladesh.
