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Tuesday, Oct. 07, 2008
We were faced with the real possibility that the national economy would be sucked into the global banking swell and end in national bankruptcy.
- GEIR HAARDE,
- Prime Minister of Iceland, as the government agreed on sweeping controls over the country's banking system
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