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The New York Times ' lead says that the U.S. will provide several billion dollars of aid to Brazil, as part of a $30 billion international package to help stave off financial turmoil there.
This is an attempt to resolve the scandal over whether the banks ingratiated themselves to the Nazis and stole deposits made by Holocaust victims . Commentators agree that the Swiss haven't really repented and are just trying to restore their trustworthy-banker reputation and stave off a boycott organized by Jewish groups.
The authors of the paper lean on these findings to suggest that marijuana acts on the brain as other drugs of abuse do, and that users who stop smoking marijuana might indulge in heroin, cocaine, or alcohol to stave off the unpleasantness of increased CRF in the amygdala.
A major effort to support the Northern Alliance through intelligence sharing and increased funding so that it could stave off the Taliban army and tie down al Qaeda fighters.
Each economic superhero has a distinct personality and style--Greenspan is the shaman, Rubin the Midas figure, and Summers the academic--but together, they stave off worldwide economic panic.