Word: hold
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...agencies have been paid by the companies that issue bonds or securities. This "issuer-pay" model has been roundly criticized for leading the agencies to cozy up to the firms creating financial products - especially the complex ones - by assigning ratings that are more favorable than justified in order to hold on to the business. At the beginning of 2008, there were just 12 top-rated companies in the world, but some 64,000 structured finance instruments, like mortgage-related CDOs, won that seal of approval...
...Looks like crap, it is crap," Bauer explains while holding up your average business card, one that creases, tears, and does all sorts of dreadful things that paper is wont to do. "And it's the same size as every other business card you guys just gave me!" (What guys, Bauer never says, and we won't ask, because that hair is scary). As he leans in for the pitch - "I will never make a criticism ... without offering a RE-SO-LU-TION" - things start to get weird(er). While cheesy '80s music plays in the background, Bauer proceeds...
...these specific groups this late in the process. “To do it for one group means you should do it for all,” she said. “It is our job as guardians of the public till, as well as the public trust, to hold to what we said we will do.” The approved budget—which allots approximately $103 million to employee salaries and wages, $26 million to other ordinary maintenance costs, $1.4 million to travel and training expenses, and $3.3 million for extraordinary expenditures—has been forwarded...
...upbringing. “I see a career in engineering as more productive,” he says. He expresses discomfort at having to compromise his writing to satisfy the industry. “Writing professionally means you have to deal with being a popular writer. I hold myself to a higher standard.” At the same time, Mao wouldn’t be happy being “just a scientist,” saying that he will continue to write on the side...
...Abdul-Basser wrote in a later e-mailed statement that he “never expressed the position that individuals who leave Islam or convert from Islam to another religion must be killed. I do not hold this opinion personally.” He explained that he was not advocating for the positions mentioned in his e-mail, but rather “addressing them in the context of the evolution of an Islamic legal doctrine...