Word: complexes
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...rewrite the way the American financial industry does business - and, as a result, avoid another global financial meltdown. In theory, the process could succeed. "We have points of agreement," says one top GOP staffer. But he adds: "The working groups may not work because the issues are much too complex." (See award-winning pictures of the fallout from the financial meltdown...
...regulators. Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Crapo are tackling new regulation for corporate governance that would try to impose checks on risk-taking CEOs and their weak boards. And Rhode Island's Jack Reed and New Hampshire's Judd Gregg have the thorny issue of regulating the complex derivatives trades that some blame for excessive leveraging that helped precipitate the market collapse...
Some North Allston residents have been complaining about a rise in the rodent population, tying it to Harvard’s construction work on the still incomplete science complex...
...that with the title alone. His suspenseful blameography reads like a thriller, even though we already know how things turned out. The Sellout traces the arc of Wall Street's ultimate blowup, from the risk-taking free-for-all that began in the late 1970s through the emergence of complex mortgage-backed securities (which Gasparino labels a "financial cancer") to angry laid-off Lehman Brothers employees packing up their desks a year...
...seem obvious, and discussing it, trite. But something about this quest for individuality here fascinates me, the innate desire to find something in oneself that validates existence amidst genius. For some, it’s the raw intellectual horsepower. For others, it’s the ability to navigate complex social hierarchies, to read men instinctively. For yet others, it’s the ability to cling to morals when others toss theirs aside. Maybe it’s just having the right combination of all the above. To justify one’s presence at the most selective college...