But others say a reckoning is coming as voters realize what a disastrous fiscal situation Mr. Haider left behind, in part because of losses connected to the bank or projects it helped finance.
Warning that developed countries' responses to the financial crisis of 2008 have increased the gap between rich and poor, Murdoch says a global reckoning is approaching unless business investment and innovation are freed up.
"The European deal may have postponed the reckoning, but unless the Iranians give up their program, it's not going to avoid the reckoning," said a senior American official.
He said a Royal Commission of the time reckoned that the only routes needed linking Scotland and England were the main east and west coast lines.
"A day of reckoning is coming," said a joyful Courtney.
(#19, woman, 54 years) Apart from me, none of the people I know [who] have diabetes ever say they have diabetes, they never say it, they never speak up, they never say a word and I reckon it's because the messages that are put out by [patient organisation] are shutting them up because they're hurt and are mortified.
When asked if he could accept Mr Mitterrand's suggestion that Britain should opt out of employment law, Mr Major said no perhaps reckoning that a social opt-out, on top of the one he had already negotiated on EMU, would be embarrassing at home.
In a major speech in London on the economy, the Labour leader will say: "We need a reckoning with our banking system, not for retribution, but for reform… This is not about whether we should have new banks - that is the question this Government is still asking - but about how".
Another book review in The New York Times said that A Moral Reckoning is an "impressive and disturbing bill of indictment against" the Roman Catholic Church, yet its imbalanced perspective results in "turning history into a kind of cudgel".
According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda article, a declassified report put the total number of dead in the first Chechen war at close to 4,000, both army and Interior Ministry troops, but the author, in an interview, said he reckons that even that figure is low by as much as 1,500.
