The lack of ability and confidence to challenge executive decision making is a root cause common in many cases of troubled housing associations over the years.
During a news conference in Manhattan yesterday, Mr. Spitzer acknowledged the association's troubled past, but praised its current management team, appointed several years ago in the wake of a federal inquiry.
This was an ambitious plan: these banks were to be a special lender of last resort for real estate, discounting mortgages so that troubled banks and loan associations could keep issuing mortgages.
UMA is also a member of the troubled for-profit college trade association APSCU (recently renamed CECU), which has included many schools investigated or shut down for fraud.
Responses are encoded on a four-point Likert scale from "not troubled" to "heavily troubled".
Vieira de Mello had come to believe that the U.N.'s troubled history in Iraq, and its close association with the Coalition, had given it an image problem.
Today, the troubled for-profit college industry's troubled trade association, APSCU, begins its four-day annual convention, at the Rosen Shingle Creek resort in Orlando FL.
She helps troubled women in her own country of Switzerland with her association: "L'Association Pont Universel".
And for years, they were the glue that kept the neighborhood together — leading the neighborhood association, tending to neglected front lawns, checking in on troubled friends and giving odd jobs to the neighborhood kids.
Witnesses said Tahir Elci was shot in the head after making a statement to media in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey's troubled, mainly Kurdish southeast where he was president of the local bar association.
