Word: alongism
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...costs are allocated. In Vancouver's case, there's a big debate about how to account for two major projects being built for the Olympics: a light-rail link connecting the city to the airport, and costly upgrades to the Sea to Sky highway, which winds north along Pacific fjords. Should these projects be part of the Olympic budget or (because they will presumably serve the city for years afterward) part of the general municipal budget? Either way, the projects will take decades to pay down...
Here's how it will work in the FDIC's case: Later this year, along with their scheduled 2009 fee, banks will pay the FDIC all of the fees that they believe they will owe the agency through the end of 2012. But even though the banks will make those payments this year, they won't show up on 2009 income statements. Instead, each bank will add an asset, a big one, to its balance sheet, right below where the cash they just handed over to the FDIC used to be. It will be called something like prepaid FDIC premiums...
Claire spends the entire episode avoiding Gretchen, whining about how she wants to trust someone and stop hiding the truth, while battling overprotective Daddy Noah Bennett along...
That is likely to affect the cities of Auburn, Kent, Renton and Tukwila, all located along the river, which runs from the Cascade Mountains to Elliott Bay, north of Seattle. It is an area where industry and real estate bloomed as its population surged - by 68% between 1980 and 2000 alone, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. Some 350,000 people are estimated to live in the Green River Valley. Last January, because of torrential rains, the river rose 10 ft. higher than it ever had before and severely damaged the dam. This winter, with the likelihood...
...Razdan is old enough to remember what Lake Pichola used to look like. "With so many ghats [steps] and temples lining the lake, and buildings limited to single-story development, it was more beautiful even than along the Ganges in Benares," Razdan, a surgeon who lives in Udaipur, Rajasthan, says. "To see it now, I am weeping. That is the pain...