Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring the capital markets to a crashing halt." Last month, for instance, a minor computer failure at the Chicago Board Options Exchange shut down trading for about 90 minutes. Although the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has tested Globex to its satisfaction, it cannot guarantee that the system will be fail-safe. Concedes chairman Wendy Gramm: "We haven't thought of every contingency...
...have been stunned to see how the Rio Conference seems to fail to make workable decisions on how to curb population growth, " she said, blaming the Vatican for blocking family planning measures...
...memorandum for the International Monetary Fund, initial doubts gave way to strong support for the Yeltsin government's tough fiscal policies. The latest compromise raises questions, once again, about what the West can do to bail out Russia. But it is Russians, feeling the bite of the reforms, who fail to understand that, as Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Makharadze points out, "if this government is toppled, there will be no reforms...
...meet in the near future to try to put aside the acrimony and mistrust of recent months. It was Russia and Ukraine, together with Belarus, that united last December to forge the Commonwealth and bury the Soviet Union. Without the cooperation of Kiev and Moscow, the C.I.S. will surely fail. It may fail anyway. But more troubling is the prospect of new violence in Europe, this time between two of the largest, and best armed, nations on the continent...
...though, the SEC is coming down the hardest on insiders who fail to file timely forms disclosing their trades and holdings. The regulatory agency won authority last year to impose fines of up to $50,000 for late or omitted filings. It also expanded the definition of insider. In the past, officers from vice presidents to CEOs were required to file. But now the category is defined by job function rather than by company title. Typically, executives with major responsibilities, including lab directors, actuaries and software developers, must file...