Word: absorbability
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Extreme greens opt to get a real tree with root-ball intact, keep it alive through the stressful holiday season--then find a place to replant it. That might be easy if you have a green thumb and a backyard big enough to absorb a Douglas fir: lug the potted tree inside for the holidays, then outside once your New Year's hangover has cleared. If you keep the tree in a planter, you can reuse it every year and save...
...matter of great concern for U.S. commanders, who see them as allies in the fight against al-Qaeda. Iraqi officials are more likely to view them as criminals seeking to hide their murderous past. That's why the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is extremely reluctant to absorb all the SOI into the police and Iraqi army. Says one top police commander: "The Americans may forgive these people for killing American soldiers, but how can we forgive them for killing Iraqis...
...Hedge funds restrict themselves to extremely wealthy investors who understand the risks involved and who can hypothetically absorb occasional big losses. In return, the industry has largely been exempted from the regulatory and disclosure requirements imposed on more common mutual funds. But hedge funds haven't just been the domain of the ultra-rich. Other pools of wealth, including university endowments and public pension funds, have put their money in so-called funds of hedge funds, which spread risk by investing in a portfolio of hedge funds and hence are considered safer. But since hedge funds are doing badly...
...scale of the losses the short-sellers would have to absorb grew rapidly as they scrambled to acquire the shares necessary to cover their positions and cut their losses. The stock price soared as it became clear that there simply wasn't enough VW stock in the market to meet demand - short-selling investors had borrowed around 13% of VW's stock, but only 6% was trading freely, the remainder being held by Porsche and the state government of Lower Saxony...
...nationalization, an allegation later found to be utterly false from the conversation transcripts. Amidst these incredible circumstances, the Icelandic government chose to effectively nationalize all three main banks, and investors began to worry about a national default on debt given the size of the debts the government had to absorb. Despite the harsh criticism it has endured in the last decade, it was the IMF that stepped in to provide a highly symbolic $2 billion loan to Iceland, which was followed by support from a consortium of Nordic central banks. This has finally eased some pressure on the unfortunate island...