Word: informant
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...Prakash Shimpi, managing principal at Towers Perrin, downplays this risk, noting that contractual law requires both parties to inform and get approval from the other before selling the CDS policy to someone else. "These transactions don't take place on a handshake," he said. Still, being unregulated, there is no standard contract, no standard capital requirements, and no standard way of valuating securities in these transactions. As a result, Pincus said she wouldn't be surprised to see a surge in litigation as defaults start happening. "There's a lot of outcry right now for more regulation and more transparency...
...whether they would get the flu," says Ho, "But they worried more about their relations. ... How can I protect my wife? My kids?" He says that to help alleviate the kind of mass insecurity that recurs in Hong Kong during bad flu seasons like this one, doctors need to inform people not only of the true risks they face, but also what they can do to control them...
...Still, it's difficult to believe that the crack former prosecutor would allow himself to get caught up in the routine IRS investigation that led to the exposure of the prostitution ring. As Spitzer knows better than most, banks must inform the government of suspicious transactions like unusually large or frequent cash withdrawals and requests to break down money transfers into small amounts. (Spitzer appears to have used both methods to pay for prostitutes.) Investigators are particularly watchful when a public official is behind such transactions - something Spitzer also would have known. During a lunch with TIME staffers...
...students to express their beliefs, and so this section should not be out of commission for long. As soon as standards are reviewed and rectified, we look forward to seeing the opinion section returning to The Campus Press. Hopefully, it will offer more substantiated opinions to inspire and inform its readers, instead of making unqualified derogatory generalizations...
...life. GEEKILY EVER AFTEREventually Grosslight realized that the time commitment of his new pursuit was starting to take a toll on his work as a teaching fellow for History of Science and a course assistant for Math Xa—so he e-mailed his advisers to inform them that he might fall slightly behind in his work. “My adviser sent me an e-mail saying: ‘THIS IS AMAZING’ with about 12 exclamation marks,” Grosslight said. Another associate responded, “As if dealing with you every...