A4 NATIONAL A14-17 Citing Violence on Border, 2 States Declare Crisis Citing a surge of smuggling and violence along the southern border, the governors of Arizona and New Mexico have issued back-to-back declarations of emergency, faulting American and Mexican authorities and freeing up money for stepped-up local law enforcement.
In the current gloomy investment outlook, with weak stockmarkets and low interest rates, tobacco companies' shares offer temptingly high yields, as do the bonds that American states have issued, backed by the income they are due to receive from their big tobacco settlement.
I don't want to be sitting in Cyprus answering these questions and putting players up who have issues back home.
At least 20 states have issued bonds backed by their share of the $246 billion, 25-year settlement reached with tobacco companies in 1998.
Electric utilities have issued bonds backed by certain tariffs charged to customers, and in 2010 SunPower, a manufacturer of solar energy systems, issued bonds tied to an Italian solar farm.
Quinn is planning to appeal (you'll pay for that too) but Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka already has issued the back pay, so this could get a bit complicated.
In addition to taxpayer bailouts, the bank has issued debts backed by the government.
Within hours Gordon Brown, David Miliband, the foreign secretary, and Alan Johnson, the home secretary, had issued statements backing MI5.
1.27pm: The Unite union (Labour's largest single financial backer) has issued a letter backing a Labour-Lib Dem deal.
The richest, Rinat Akhmetov, has issued strong statements backing people's right to peaceful protest.
Every newspaper that has issued an endorsement backs the measure.
