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...stress test is also influenced by the measure you use. We chose the leverage ratio. To calculate it, divide a bank's equity by its assets, much of which are loans. The lower this ratio goes, the shakier a bank becomes. For example, a 10% leverage ratio means the bank has lent out $10 for every $1 in equity it has. A 5% reading translates to $20 out for every $1 in hand. Regulators like to see a reading of at least 5%. Anything less than that and a bank could become toast. Here's what we found...
...also an untimely one: five years later, in 2003, journalist Wendell Steavenson arrived in Iraq to "learn more about the locked-in years of Saddam's regime" and chose Sachet as the prism through which those years might best be refracted. In the resulting book, The Weight of a Mustard Seed (the title is a quote from the Koran), she tries to understand why Iraqis who deplored what was happening to their country became Saddam's accomplices. "How," she asks, "do ordinary little human cogs make up a torture machine...
Kansagra said he chose this specific space because it offers a mix of tenants and a strong customer base—thousands of college students...
...more complicated than the one-to-one predator-and-prey relationship we might expect. Analyzing the waters off Western Africa and the Caribbean, where baleen whales breed, Gerber and her colleagues mined marine data to create ecosystem models that plotted the feeding interactions between whales and fish. (They chose these waters in part because Japan is using the fishery argument to persuade Caribbean and African nations to support the lifting of the whaling...
...launching shots from longe range Friday evening at Lavietes. Cornell and Harvard finished the weekend first and second in the rankings with .336 and .332 three-point percentages, respectively.But while the Big Red stuck with its bread and butter to mixed success, the Crimson took just eight threes and chose to focus on its defense.Already leading by eight points at the break, the Crimson played lock-down defense on the perimeter to retain control. The Big Red shot just 4-of-15 from distance after halftime—before she hit her first three with 6:11 to play...