He rightly objected to the fact that in exchange for providing some $20 billion worth of mortgage relief — mainly by reducing the principal on homeowners' loans — the banks wanted release from legal claims that have never been fully investigated, including those related to potential tax, trust and securities violations in mortgage loans.
Mr Dzurinda is expected to stay on as prime minister, though some say his foreign minister, Edward Kukan, could displace him.Most democratic-minded Slovaks are heaving a sigh of relief, mainly because their country's bid to join the West now looks likely to succeed.
He said the end of the war "was just a feeling of relief, mainly".
The more complicated change to pensions tax relief mainly affects higher earners with workplace and private pensions, and takes effect from April 2014.
They left dozens of palaces and temples decorated with huge reliefs mainly depicting their kings' military campaigns and conquests, hunting lions and making sacrifices to the gods.
Despite this relief, the crisis intensified.
He helped raise millions of dollars in relief aid, mainly from the Indian-American community.
Three-quarters of that money was for relief -- mainly food and medicine -- leaving less than $150 million for reconstructing the nation's war-ravaged water systems, power grids, schools and roads.
Valay Singh, of Save the Children, said that at least 50,000 people were living in community-run relief centres, mainly mosques and Sikh temples.
As soon as the taxi doors opened, we began to sob uncontrollably, partly out of relief but mainly in the hope of engendering sympathy.
