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...failure of Hope for Homeowners has heightened awareness of the fact that it can be incredibly difficult to shape the behavior of private companies and create an effective fix for such a complicated problem. In December, the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) issued a report showing that at national banks and federally regulated thrifts, nearly 37% of homeowners were 60 or more days behind on their payments six months after receiving a modification. That re-default problem has received much attention as the national conversation has turned toward the idea of taxpayers standing...
...What do we have here?IRM: Well, we started out with ten little paintings that were inspired from a list of like, 200 phrases. Then for the final painting we were supposed to loosely combine them into one big painting, somehow synthesize them. Conceptually it’s incredibly difficult to go from something so small to something so large...I had never worked with oil before this painting—the other paintings were in acrylic. Acrylic is cool, but oil is much more seductive. You get to sit there and play with it...I’m dealing...
...What we hope most for in the freshmen seminars,” Naddaff says, “is that students will have curricular experiences that broaden their horizons in some way.” Though the VES department offers many studio-based courses, non-concentrators often find it difficult to get accepted into them. Thus, the opportunity for freshmen to take classes taught by VES faculty is another reason Naddaff feels it is important to offer these first-year seminars. “It is a way for students who are not concentrating in VES to have the experience...
...especially rough shape because they lack the scale, financial resources and technical prowess of their larger Korean and American rivals. The companies' woes are pushing the Taiwan government toward a bailout of the industry. "We have the intention and the resolve to help the DRAM companies through difficult times," Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou reportedly told electronics industry executives in early January. Aid is crucial, policymakers believe, because Taiwan's chipmakers are simply too important to the economy, which specializes in manufacturing gear like notebook PCs. "It's bad for the whole high-tech industry here if the DRAM industry...
...delay may make it more difficult to unravel the case. The police took a week to seize documents from Satyam's auditors, and there are concerns that crucial papers have been destroyed. Two weeks after Raju's confession, the state police arrested his cousin, Gopalakrishna Raju, who heads a sister company, for "concealing and causing disappearance of evidence"- mainly documents related to property acquisitions. Although an independent body under the central Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the Serious Crimes Investigation Office, has been investigating the case, it has a mandate to look mainly at violations of corporate law and not issues...