Word: haven
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...Administration source says that the stress tests have uncovered the fact that risk controls at major financial institutions, even those that haven't failed, were much too loose. But the most surprising result from the stress tests and related discussions may be this: bankers continue to appear oblivious to the nation's insistence that regulations be put in place to keep banks from ever again putting the economy at such risk. "I just don't think they get it," the official says, referring to bankers' unwillingness to take responsibility for past behavior. "Bankers seem to have no understanding how much...
...reason we haven't heard apologies yet is an increasingly widespread belief that "I didn't do anything illegal" is equivalent to "I didn't do anything wrong." Clearly it is not. How do we fix that? Dan Horsfall, CHANHASSEN, MINN...
...reason we haven't heard apologies yet is an increasingly widespread belief that "I didn't do anything illegal" is equivalent to "I didn't do anything wrong." Clearly it is not. How do we fix that? Dan Horsfall, Chanhassen, Minn...
...Harvard men’s tennis team. Continuing its season-closing seven-match tango in the Ivy League, the Crimson (12-9, 4-2 Ivy) hosted No. 73 Brown (18-9, 4-2 Ivy) at home at the Beren Tennis Center on Friday, then traveled to New Haven on Sunday to battle rival No. 64 Yale (13-8, 3-3 Ivy). Against two familiar, higher-ranked enemies, Harvard secured a pair of morale-boosting 5-2 wins.The Crimson’s class of 2009 had another task at hand on Friday: defending their turf one last time in the final...
...Perhaps they haven't responded because ‘greed’ unlike ‘crimson’ is not a color, and therefore saying ‘greed is the new crimson’ would be lexically similar to saying to ‘koala is the new circle’—a situation in which you are trying to include a member of a class of nouns (in my case animals) into a pre-existing class of nouns (such as shapes). Perhaps if you had refined your message into a nuanced argument comprised of phrases...