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"Standard & Poor's also announced that it was downgrading National City Corp . from a 'hold' to an 'avoid.
USAT says the proximate cause was Moody's downgrading the rating of five Japanese banks and deploring the entire banking system of Indonesia.
"The United States can destroy you by dropping bombs and the Supermarkets can destroy you by downgrading your bonds," he writes.
The Times and the Daily Telegraph of London both led Monday with stories about plans for the downgrading of the British royal family in response to pressure for constitutional reform--the Times saying that Prince William would lose his seat in the House of Lords and the Telegraph that minor royals would lose their police escorts.