Word: lacking
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...much bad news. Citi stock plummeted, dropping 60% over the course of the week, to $3.77 a share. Meanwhile, other parts of the market confirmed Citi's stressed state. The cost of credit-default swaps that protect investors from losing money on Citi's bonds skyrocketed, signaling a lack of confidence in the bank's ability to survive. Bankruptcy rumors circulated, and fears grew that people doing business with Citi - including its retail banking customers - would pull their money. At that point, regulators felt they had no other option but to step...
...those four, only Circuit City is attempting to restructure its business, closing 155 stores by the end of the year in an effort to emerge as a leaner operation. The other three plan to liquidate altogether, a trend that is on the rise as a result of the lack of potential buyers for troubled assets and a tightening of credit offerings by banks. "The days of restructuring are gone," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., a national retail-consulting and investment-banking firm. "No one will give you the financing." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...ADITO hopes to use the money to send Harvard students to Latin America to work for mircofinance organizations, many of which lack management information systems—one of the most pressing issues in Latin American microfinance, according to Sebastien D. Arnold ’10, ADITO’s chief executive officer...
...very least, it means students shouldn’t look to assign blame for the Girl Talk incident of 2008 to the CEB, or the lack of barriers, or the Masonic ministrations of the Fly Club. No: For whatever reason, the cosmos themselves are aligned against any such rally held on Harvard’s grounds. No more than five have been pulled off in a half-century. And if 2005 was any indication, these rallies are pretty stupid, even when they succeed. If anything, we should be happy that, these days, Harvard spirit can only barely induce shoving. Everyone...
...house, and a Harvard pillow somewhere else,” said Fish, whose mother went to Yale and father went to Harvard. Unable to boast about their school’s football prowess, Yale siblings of Harvard students largely tease them for Harvard’s perceived lack of social life, according to several Harvard students. In an e-mail Sunday, Fish wrote that his sister retaliated to his text message via a Facebook wall post: “WTF tailgate closing at KICKOFF?!?!” “Sometimes I kind of see where she?...