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But it was the grass-roots opposition to KYC, sparked in part by the Libertarian Party, whose protest Web site steered 171,268 e-mail complaints from netizens to the FDIC, that elevated the subject to the national agenda.
All the front pages feature coverage of a bold and surprising move undertaken yesterday by the U.S. and Japan in concert: the countries' central banks bought as much as $4 billion in yen on the open market, which sparked further purchases of the Japanese currency by traders, all of which reversed the recent steep slide in the yen.
One participant added that the interest in the profession over the past 10 years has dropped by half, although the recent publicity stemming from Enron and WorldCom, albeit negative, has actually sparked increased interest in the profession.
Instead of going to London, however, the Sinn Féin members set up Dail Éireann in Dublin and sparked the War of Independence.
The standoff was sparked April 27 when police arrested two ROT members--one because he refused to display license plates on his vehicle.