Word: assets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were losing their best corporate customers to the commercial paper market. We had banks that needed fee income and needed to do something clever lest they go out of business the slow way, which is by starving to death. And so real estate lending became the favored commercial- bank asset. And as with any asset favored by bankers, it suffered a depreciation because they lent so much that they helped create a glut...
Meyer does acknowledge that he is actively investigating the possibility of outside help, and there could be "a decline in staff," even at senior levels. The only asset class Meyer says he will not consider moving outside HMC is the complex, and very risky, trading strategy portfolio--an area requiring hands-on management...
...tremendous asset of flexibility. An American expatriate journalist recently wondered how this country can survive without a ruling $ class. Yet again and again, ruling classes have decayed and left their countries in ruin. It is to America's advantage that it has no permanent ruling class and that its elites are constantly open to new blood...
...were they merely firecrackers set off by local heat waves? David Carney, head of the White House political office, took the expansive view: "People are sick of incumbents. They're absolutely fed up." Howard Schloss, speaking for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, insists that incumbency is still a huge asset. "The ballot box is sending one message, and the theorists another." In fact, the results seem to highlight an odd disjuncture in the American political system: Carney is right about the voters' damn-all- politicia ns resentments, but Schloss appears right about probable outcomes this November...
...despises and a maiden he means to rape -- achieves the abrupt power of surprise. Among a solid ensemble cast, Jack Heller is a wonderfully hissable overlord, full of chill arrogance and hot rage, and Domenique Lozano and Stephen Burks are the most affecting of his victims. The chief asset, however, is the play itself, which is both a singular masterwork and a reminder to every U.S. nonprofit theater that there remains a rich array of unproduced European stage classics from before the 19th century and beyond the English language...