Word: bearings
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...risk than the settlers that follow,” said Vanderbilt associate controller Kevin R. Walker, who called criticism of Harvard’s December debt issuance unfair and said the current economic crisis is a black swan. “There was tremendous uncertainty [in the fall] with Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and AIG, and I don’t think anybody knew what was going to happen.”John F. Flahive, a vice president at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, which purchased $10 million of Harvard’s tax-exempt bonds, said that he does...
...debt into their bad bank and in return receive fresh capital from the government for their good bank. The government remains skeptical of the plan but still has put no alternative suggestion on the table. The government wants to ensure that a bank's shareholders and not the taxpayer bear the brunt of any losses. "The previous shareholders will primarily have to share the losses and bear the risks," he told the Saarbrücker Zeitung newspaper...
...with equity by taking stakes in banks that participate. The toxic assets would be placed in a state-owned bad bank and sold back to the banks at a later date when a market for such assets reemerges. "This ensures that the shareholders and not the taxpayers have to bear the initial costs of the failure," says Dorothea Schäfer, DIW head of research...
...There is no reason, whether out of nostalgia or fear of change, why newspapers should bear anything less than the full court press that Internet news outlets, search engines, and other new competitors are able to apply. The future of reporting the news appears in all likelihood to be an exciting and modern tale, complete with a rich vocabulary teeming with the neologisms of a new age: Blogs, wikis, feeds, and tweets come readily to mind...
...Students, administrators, and all members of the Harvard community should be more aware of the messages that we send in our publicity materials. We all should live up to the responsibilities that we bear, both to our fellow students and as representatives of the Harvard name. There is no excuse for us to exploit any body’s image in this...