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...securities are worth. The government will hire experts to determine their value, but because so many are "sliced and diced" concoctions - made up of pieces of literally thousands of mortgages created and peddled and pushed together by Wall Street - the soundness of the underlying loans will prove difficult to ascertain. Many members of Congress want to make sure the government pays fire-sale prices for the assets to protect taxpayers from a big loss, but Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said that too low a price could hamper the plan's effectiveness at stabilizing the markets...
...best ways to try to figure out what will happen in the future is to ascertain what happened in the past. That's why we're in Greenland. Our team will be visiting the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project, an international research team that has staked out a corner of the island's ice sheet and will, as the name suggests, drill. The ice in central Greenland is nearly 3 km thick, and as you drill down to the bottom, you can read the climatic history of the island as if you were counting tree rings going back...
...Harvard’s current system and the ongoing effort to address these problems.“These are all things we have been working on this year,” Client Technology Adviser Noah S. Selsby ’94 said. “We are trying to ascertain not only what the students want, but what is going to meet all the requirements technologically.”FAS IT released the results to its annual undergraduate survey last week that showed an increasingly widespread use of Gmail and Thunderbird forwarding services and a dissatisfaction with the FAS Webmail...
...formerly a construction dump area, so the lions may have once graced the tops of a building somewhere in Boston, Gordon said. The development group has not yet determined from which building the lions originally came, but Gordon said they are working with a historic research company to ascertain their origin...
...Despite the depressing nature of his subject, Moskos manages to draw a colorful portrait of Baltimore, even adding dashes of dark humor that endow the desperate inner city with humanity. On a disturbance call, Moskos must ascertain whether the relationship of a man and a woman is sexual and therefore legally “domestic,” a task requiring sensitivity to Baltimore slang...