Word: model
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...careful to tell investors exactly what is going on inside the financial unit. Yesterday, the firm said, "We made $8.6B in financial services in 2008, and we have an excellent franchise that we are restructuring to perform in the current environment. Also, we have an "originate to hold" model that is highly collateralized, so we have a more conservative approach than the U.S. consumer banks...
...when the bill that rolled through the House missed the mark the way it did, it demonstrated that the thought behind the majority's bill was not to be a stimulus bill; it was to be a spending bill. And going forward, we'll be using that as a model...
...Politics and economics go hand in hand. Chile has historically been a model of neo-liberal economic reforms, including deregulation, regional cooperation, and free markets—the antithesis of the Cuban model. There is something incongruent with the goals of Chile and its allies and that of Cuba and the “non-aligned movement” in which it has come to be a leader. In order to maintain international support from its allies and main trading partners, Chile must only visit the Pearl of the Antilles if it is prepared to do so in support...
...near-future discussions with the U.S., China's biggest trade partner, and could become the primary source of bilateral friction. In a January speech at Davos, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao lectured about the "inappropriate macroeconomic policies of some economies" with low rates of savings and high consumption - an "unsustainable model of development." In other words, the U.S. When outgoing U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson was quoted as suggesting that China's high rate of savings helped set off the worldwide crisis by lowering interest rates and encouraging high-risk investment, the state press launched a loud and extended attack. Paulson eventually...
...serve as an accessible, comprehensive source for health-related information, which he said involves too much paper-pushing and not enough technology at present. He said that 5,000 medical professionals signed up to edit the Web site on the day of its premiere. “The old model of medical knowledge development and creation is paper-based, hierarchal, and closed,” he said. “The new model has to be web-based, collaborative, and open.” Currier, who is a graduate of the Business School, said that Medpedia’s institutional...