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...three to four years, according to the report.Planned spending could revert to higher levels “if fundraising results or the economy’s growth is substantially better than expected,” said Moody’s, which expressed confidence in the University’s liquidity position and reaffirmed its top “Aaa” rating. Moody’s does not anticipate that Harvard’s long-term competitiveness will be affected by the capital reductions since peer institutions also taking hits.Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment on the spending...
...month to issue any bonds at all, and that 2008 was a “very exceptional year in which virtually every class around the globe, with the single exception of Treasury bonds, went down in value.”He added that while institutions could have boosted their liquidity to hedge against extreme downturns, such a move would come at the cost of long-term investment returns.“I don’t know if anybody has a particularly good answer to that trade-off,” Scudder said.With the global financial market in free fall...
...this picture to the reader's imagination.) The 1983 Jaws 3-D, utilizing a single-camera process called Arrivision, was an example of several horror series whose third episode was in 3-D (Friday the 13rd Part 3, Amityville 3-D). That 1990 TIME story was heralding a liquid-crystal technology called IMAX Solido. Since then, IMAX had become a reliable adjunct to the movie-theater business, both in its own documentaries and in special versions of movies like The Polar Express and The Dark Knight; but it accounts for only a small part of movie ticket sales...
...other argument against excess regulation is that if the capital markets are prevented from efficiently trading and creating capital, then they do not really exist as capital markets any more. With the economy in such tough shape discouraging traders from creating liquid markets or the credit default swaps market from efficiently insuring risk may do more to hurt a system that is trying to build new capital more than it helps...
TIME: You write about why we get dizzy - the liquid in our inner ears sloshes around. Is that similar to when people get motion sickness? ??Bentley: Yes, it is. We're all hardwired to correlate a jolt in our balance with a jolt in our vision systems; that helps us maneuver through the world. If one happens without the other, it's a bit weird and we don't like it so much. Basically, if you're in a vehicle, your vision is stationary. You aren't seeing the bumps in the road, but you are feeling them...