In June 2012, the Cypriot government announced it would need € of foreign aid to support the Cyprus Popular Bank, and this was followed by Fitch down-grading Cypus's credit rating to junk status.

Fitch said Cyprus would need an additional € to support its banks and the downgrade was mainly due to the exposure of Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank and Hellenic Bank ( Cyprus's 3 largest banks ) to the Greek financial crisis.

Hungary's sovereign foreign currency debt issuance carries investment-grade ratings from all major credit-rating agencies, although recently the country was downgraded by Moody's, S & P and remains on negative outlook at Fitch.

* In November 2009, IKEA, along with Abercrombie & Fitch, Gymboree, Hanes, Kohl's, LL Bean, Pier 1, Propper International and Walmart, was added to the 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame by labour rights group International Labour Rights Forum.

* Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch canceled its Christmas 2001 issue of A & F Quarterly because the company felt the tone of the publication was not suitable for the mood at that time.

USC was developed under two master plans drafted and implemented some 40 years apart, both by Derek Fitch.

The first president was Ebenezer Fitch.

In this respect, the development of Planner was influenced by natural deductive logical systems ( especially the one by Frederic Fitch ).

Through his career, Ammann was the recipient of several awards including the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize ( 1919 ), the Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year ( 1958 ), the Ernest E. Howard Award ( 1960 ) and the National Medal of Science ( 1964 ).

Fitch carried impressive credentials: he was a former state legislator from California, had been Nevada's Representative to the United States House of Representatives, was former general counsel for Brigham Young and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Utah Territory, and a close friend of Arizona's governor John C. Frémont.

In 2008, American clothing chain Abercrombie & Fitch was given permission to open a store.

After one year on the job, Weiss was fired, and veteran head coach Bill Fitch was brought in to guide a roster of young and inexperienced players.

Cochrane was quite wealthy and was the granddaughter of John Fitch, the inventor of the steamboat.

* Thomas Fitch ( c. 1700 – 1774 ), from Norwalk, was a governor of the Colony of Connecticut.

The first Eagle Scout in Nebraska was Alva R. Fitch of Norfolk.

Gilman was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Mary Perkins ( formerly Mary Fitch Westcott ) and Frederick Beecher Perkins.

James Fitch, minister of Norwich, adjacent to Maj. Mason's land which was now known as Cedar Swamp.

Ojus originally was named in 1897 by Albert Fitch, a farmer who wanted to grow pineapples in the rich soil.

The word Ojus is a Seminole Indian word for " plenty " or " lots of ," and when Fitch was in the area, Ojus had plenty of everything, including just about any type of crop imaginable-peas, beans, sugar cane, and tomatoes.

The area was then sold to Thomas Fitch.

Michigan Center was platted as " Michigan Centre " in 1837 by Abel Fitch and Paul Ring, although there were settlements in the area from at least 1834.

The town was granted by Governor Benning Wentworth on January 31, 1764 to Theophilus Fitch and others.

The first mahjong sets sold in the U. S. were sold by Abercrombie & Fitch starting in 1920.

* August 27 – Launching a steam powered craft on the Delaware River, John Fitch demonstrates the first U. S. patent for his design.

* Fitch Ratings ( Dual-headquartered U. S ./ UK ), 80 % of which is owned by FIMALAC, a French firm.

* Val Logsdon Fitch – Nobel Prize-winning American nuclear physicist ( attended for three years before being drafted into the U. S. army in 1943 )

* USS Aubrey Fitch ( FFG-34 ), a U. S. Naval ship

Called the Sphas because the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association bought the players uniforms, the team featured many eastern U. S. top college graduates, including Harry Litwack ( IJSHOF honoree ), Cy Kasselman, Davey Banks, Moe Goldman ( ABL MVP 1937-38 ), Shikey Gotthofer, Mendy Snyder, Irv Torgoff, Red Wolfe, Max Posnack, Gil Fitch, Jerry Fleishman and many others.

* Ashbel Parmelee Fitch, U. S. Representative from New York

* Jon Fitch ( born 1978 ), U. S. mixed martial arts fighter

Fitch Ratings, dual-headquartered in New York and London, was one of the three Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations ( NRSRO ) designated by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975, together with Moody's and Standard & Poor's.

* U. S. Credit: Fitch Ratings

Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, USN, Superintendent of the U. S. Naval Academy ; With Mrs. Gwyneth Fitch, in the Superintendent's House, Annapolis, Maryland, October 1945.

* Future U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was a lieutenant with the 3rd Armored Division under General Fitch.

Asa Fitch ( November 10, 1765 – August 24, 1843 ) was a U. S. representative from New York from 1811 to 1813.

The bristles are a Fitch 2 and a one-half inch brush shaved to a sharp chisel edge.

For instance, Tecumseh Fitch has argued that the descended larynx is not unique to humans.

# 2002 Boston: J. Hurford & T. Fitch ( eds.

The report goes on to assert that the Youngor Group and Well Dyeing Factory Ltd .-the two companies behind the facilities-have commercial relationships with a range of major clothing brands, including Abercrombie & Fitch, Adidas, Bauer Hockey, Calvin Klein, Converse ( shoe company ), Cortefiel, H & M, Lacoste, Li Ning ( company ), Metersbonwe Group, Nike, Phillips-Van Heusen and Puma AG.

Indonesia regained its investment grade rating from Fitch Rating in late 2011, and from Moody's Rating in early 2012, after losing its investment grade rating in December 1997 at the onset of the Asian financial crisis which Indonesia spent more than Rp450 trillion ($ 50 billion ) to bail out lenders from banks.

Fitch raised Indonesia's long-term and local currency debt rating to BBB-from BB + with both ratings is stable.

Fitch also predicted that economy will grow at least 6. 0 % on average per year through 2013, despite a less conducive global economic climate.

Moody's ( in March 2000 ) and Fitch IBCA ( in January 2002 ) issued investment-grade ratings for Mexico's sovereign debt.

* 1865 – Clyde Fitch, American playwright ( d. 1909 )

It became a success in New York, and the ( co .) owner of the company, Ezra Fitch, sent emissaries to Chinese villages to buy every set of mahjong they could find.

Abercrombie & Fitch sold a total of 12, 000 sets.

* 2012 – Dennis E. Fitch, American pilot ( b. 1942 )

* Fitch, W. J. and F. J. Ayala ( 1995 ) Tempo and mode in evolution: genetics and paleontology 50 years after Simpson.