Word: minding
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...banking has become mind-bogglingly complex, and the credit debacle has made it clear that many supposedly savvy bankers failed to grasp the scale of the risks they were taking. Tiny C. Hoare & Co. - pretax profit for the year to last April was a modest $32 million, up 8% from the previous year - has prospered over the centuries by keeping it simple. Two-thirds of its income still derives from providing rock-solid banking services - deposit-taking or loans, say - to its wealthy customers through just a pair of London branches. (Investment or financial-planning advice and help with...
...terms of the number of students benefiting.”Upon reflection, Eisele says he wishes he had considered applying for a special concentration to better tailor his academic work to his interests.Yet Eisele says he realizes that such intensive independent pursuits require a “creative mind.”“You have to have something completely out of the box that you want to take into an academic area,” Eisele says.WHAT’S ON TAPPulling from his experiences as bar operations manager and bartender at the Pub, Eisele says...
After another internship at JP Morgan’s private bank unit the following summer, Anguas said he made up his mind to pursue...
...This would be the decisive moment. It had to be. And was not Frederick the master of his own estate? Was not The Stable Boy, in fact, his possession? As Frederick’s mind ran right up to the precipice, he felt for the first time in his life that he was speaking clearly...
...Opposition is wrapped up in a deep sense of moral rectitude about the process by which the decisions were made and then communicated to applicants. If only the College had made up its mind sooner, then perhaps the time, energy, and money that applicants put into their application might not have been wasted. Opponents cite the costs of re-taking standardized tests and ordering transcripts, which won’t be recouped by prospective transfers, even though Harvard has agreed to refund the full application...