Word: explaining
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Citigroup chief financial officer Ned Kelly was trying to explain an aspect of the bank's better-than-expected first-quarter results on Friday morning when star analyst Meredith Whitney interrupted him. "Could you dumb that down for me?" she asked...
...This tension over pricing helps explain the leaked stories on Wednesday announcing that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will make public the results of the banks' "stress tests" next month. The tests started out in March as a gauge of banks' ability to handle a worst-case economic downturn; now they've become a weapon for Obama and Geithner to force the banks to clean up their acts, officials say. "It gives [Obama and Geithner] leverage to make large institutions do things they otherwise wouldn't do," says a senior government official involved in the tests...
...English is probably something like being gay in the Army,” Bennett says. “Half your colleagues are titillated by the same thing as you. But it doesn’t mean they want you to talk about it.” That might explain the fact that while there are many writers among Cambridge’s literati, Bennett feels the writing scene can be surprisingly hush-hush.According to Bennett, the relative silence of the writing community stems from a combination of individual pride and the English Department’s notoriously critical approach. Bennett perceives...
...some 300 years, however, sugaring stuck close by that rural idyll. Early settlers in the U.S. Northeast and Canada learned about sugar maples from Native Americans. Various legends exist to explain the initial discovery. One is that the chief of a tribe threw a tomahawk at a tree, sap ran out and his wife boiled venison in the liquid. Another version holds that Native Americans stumbled on sap running from a broken maple branch...
...comes Chirac's poll triumph. Little wonder Sarkozy-backers are feeling catty. Culture Minister Christine Albanel sought to explain away Chirac's rising poll numbers and Sarkozy's dropping appeal by saying that the former president "was always very likeable, and today is rather a grandfather figure for everyone". Conservative senator Philippe Marini, meanwhile, noted that "people are always looking back to paradise lost, even if it never was paradise." Hissss...