Word: accountability
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Wall Street firm Bernstein Research says most people are focused on how the lack of loans will hurt bank earnings. Lending is, after all, how banks make money. But in the past year or so, banks have had to sock away more and more cash into their reserves to account for their growing number of bad loans. That's caused earnings to plummet. With loans falling, reserve ratios - the measure of reserves to loans - are growing. That means banks will be able to divert less profit into those rainy-day accounts, which should boost bottom lines...
...maintained that she would not have written her column any differently had the expenses been charged to her faculty research account at Harvard Business School instead...
...This is one of the coolest tools I've seen for booking travel and sharing trip information with friends. The site's completely integrated with Facebook, so you never have to create an account and it automatically finds your friends," wrote one account-holder...
...government was rallying support for itself on Wednesday, the funeral of Ali Mousavi, the nephew of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, took place under the watchful and wary eye of state security. He had died in a hospital shortly after reportedly being shot in the chest during Sunday's riots. An account of the funeral, said to have been written by a member of Iran's security forces with sympathies toward the opposition, is currently circulating. It describes a bleak ceremony, held just after dawn, with men and women from the Revolutionary Guards dressed in black mingling with family members. The undercover...