Word: existance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...article about the news coverage of the war [CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK, April 14], James Poniewozik questioned whether one should give up journalistic independence in the name of liberty. Journalistic independence doesn't exist without liberty. When liberty is in jeopardy, so is freedom of the press. Journalistic bias exists in varying degrees, no matter what. But journalists need to have perspective on which country allows them to freely report the news in the first place. AARON LLOYD ROLLINS Ventura, Calif...
...Diplomats are cautious, and they don't like to stage a summit unless a deal has been precooked. Fine, but a beginning must be made. The ultimate deal could be something as modest as a vague statement of mutual purpose: "We, the undersigned, agree that Iraq should continue to exist within its current borders with a federal government that represents all existing ethnic and religious interests." Or it could be as ambitious as the Afghanistan process, or even more ambitious. It is obvious that the U.S. military will have to supervise peacekeeping operations in Iraq for the next several years...
...alone. The institutions, which date to the mid-1800s, took off during the Great Depression as not-for-profit, tax-exempt organizations through which workers in a company could pool their savings to qualify for loans for cars and other big-ticket items. About 10,000 exist today. The Navy's is the nation's largest, with 1.25 million members, while some have fewer than 500 members. Roughly 60% of credit unions are federally chartered (the rest have state charters) and supervised by the National Credit Union Administration. Nearly all, including state-chartered credit unions, are federally insured. Most provide...
...could this happen? Three very realistic possibilities exist through regulatory, legislative or market channels. The newly constituted accounting board could propose and enforce this through the Securities and Exchange Commission. Congress could pass legislation that might please tax authorities, firms, and shareholders (how often does that happen?). Finally, a firm could voluntarily characterize their income in this way and stand out as a market leader. Regardless of the mechanism, financial reporting is a setting where reading off of the same page would prove to have numerous virtues...
...short term, the dance space is going in the summer of 2005. In Harvard language, that’s short term. You can’t move a dance studio that’s 12,000 square feet to an alternative space; that size space just does not exist. Some rough calculations that we’ve done put about 22 percent of undergraduate women participating in dance this past fall. That’s an extraordinary number of undergraduates. We need a home. Luckily we have an administration that I’m confident is addressing the program...