Word: affections
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...difficult to gauge, experts say its reputation as a reliable institution has taken a beating. "Clients worldwide have lost trust in UBS's ability to protect their privacy," says Teodoro Cocca, former professor of asset and wealth management at the Swiss Banking Institute in Zurich. "This will affect UBS's attraction for wealthy clients - the main franchise of the bank...
...that kind of instinct. But it's a desire that will be indulged by fewer of us in the future. The deterioration of the exurbs will be a gradual process - one that takes decades - but it will happen. Housing values in these places will decline and it will certainly affect people. But it won't be any different than, say, the kinds of erasures of equity we saw over decades in places such as Detroit. The difference this time, of course, being that the Detroits of the world will benefit, as will our health, our environment and general quality...
...begin consuming more locally, how much will the changes in American tastes and habits affect the rest of the world? By that time, China will boast - it already boasts - a vibrant consuming economy of its own, one that will demand more and more of China's own goods. So will this be the ruin of China? Certainly not, but its growth will slow. And bringing more production to the U.S. can only help our own economy, lending it stability, bolstering the dollar and weaning down our debt...
...Seneca, an all-female student organization whose mission, according to its Web site, includes “promot[ing] discourse and awareness of issues that affect women," met with a UHS liaison in the fall to discuss a possible continuation of the subsidy...
...While speculators affect the market in both directions, commercial participants tend to put upward pressure on prices. If airlines fully hedged themselves in the futures market, the price of oil would jump enormously. The futures market cannot support hedging for energy, let alone for other things; for example, investors might buy oil to hedge against losses in other investments, like stocks. With speculators out of the market, an airline's hedge would have an even bigger impact, further raising the global price...