Word: cheung
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...significantly undermines. But one fact of the Japanese argument is undeniable: the world's commercial fisheries are in serious trouble, and they're getting worse. In new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Feb. 12, the marine ecologist William Cheung announced that climate change would have a devastating impact on the world's commercial fish and shellfish populations, including tuna, herring and prawns. Fish would flee toward the poles to escape rising temperatures, and many species would all but disappear from their familiar habitats. Many would not survive the transition...
Unfortunately, Markopolos said, his report was sent down to the SEC's New York branch chief Meaghan Cheung, whom he said "never grasped" the concepts "nor was the slightest bit interested in asking questions...
...that point, Markopolos decided to go to the press. He told the committee he went to a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, John Wilke, but the editors never approved an investigative piece, so things went back to the SEC's Cheung, and there it stopped. "It is a sickening thought," but if the SEC or the Wall Street Journal "would have picked up the phone and spent one hour contacting the leads" provided, Markopolos said, Madoff would have been stopped in 2006, and "untold billions" would have been saved...
...Indeed, falling U.S. consumer spending and the drying up of credit create big problems for Asian companies that may not be reflected in their current stock prices. "We have not yet seen the impact in the corporate sector yet," says Irene Cheung, a corporate director in ABN Amro's Asian markets trading business in Singapore. "That's the scary part." Cheung expects a further decline of 20% to 30% in Asian equity markets...
...eager to surrender an upmarket French domestic version of Disneyland, where the fantasy-memory of one's own youth is spiked by admiration or envy for this privileged clan. But Assayas, best known for the films (Irma Vep and Clean) he made with his once-wife Maggie Cheung, has more on his mind than duplicating House & Garden spread on screen. For at the center of the movie's first act he place the imposing Hélene...