Word: complexity
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...That strategy is to stay focused on core banking operations. While bank chiefs in the U.S. and Europe gorged on high-risk subprime lending and complex mortgage-backed securities in a quest for fat returns, Sands avoided toxic assets that got its competitors into trouble. Sands became even more cautious as the U.S. housing bubble began unraveling in 2007. Some risky borrowers - such as low-margin Asian exporters, which have been hit hard by the collapse of U.S. consumer spending - were asked to cough up more collateral when renegotiating loans, while other marginal customers were denied further credit. To strengthen...
Wind-power estimates have been made before, but the PNAS team drilled them down to greater detail. Using a simulation of global wind fields from NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System Data Assimilation System - a network of complex computer systems used to simulate and predict meteorology - McElroy and his colleagues could map the distribution of wind resources around the globe, then calculate how much electricity could be produced by tapping those breezes with current turbines, which can generate about 2.5 megawatts on land, and larger turbines that can generate 3.6 megawatts offshore. (Offshore winds tend to be stronger and more...
Even within the White House complex, the opposing teams each have their own turfs. In the halls of power - the Oval Office, the East Room and the Rose Garden - the President oversees his domain. But just a few steps away sits the White House briefing room, a hotbox of cameras and television lights, where the President holds no real dominion. Here the press corps - a ragtag assortment of denim-clad cameramen, unkempt writers and preening television talkers - makes its home. When government officials come to visit, they enter a different space and are generally asked to prove themselves. Questions...
...hard to imagine any of these cheeky exchanges occurring in the Rose Garden or the East Room, where acoustic requirements require reporters to use microphones to speak with the President. But it was the President's choice to cross over to the other side of the White House complex Thursday, and he got a glimpse of what his press secretary and friend Robert Gibbs has to deal with almost every day. Chances are, he won't be back in that enemy territory for a long time to come...
Artists and nature lovers soon gave way to behavioral psychologists and neuroscientists who employed algorithms and "clutter metrics" - the study of how the eye locates and detects objects - to create increasingly complex designs. The familiar "U.S. Woodland" pattern, which has been taken up by soldiers in Ghana, Zambia, Uganda and Liberia, replaced the "tiger stripe" look of the Vietnam War, while troops during the first Gulf War donned "chocolate chip" or "cookie dough" duds - nicknames outdone only by the "scrambled egg" scheme favored by Egyptian forces. (The mottled black and off-white flecks found on both are meant to mimic...