Word: regardless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drought can dramatically disrupt the work cycle of people living on less than a dollar a day, and microcredit can provide a respite, allowing people time to regain their health or weather climate fluctuations without starving. At this moment, access to credit is the most important boon of microfinance, regardless of whether the interest rate is high or low. Change is occurring. Interest rates have been falling with competition innovation in the industry. The Kiva organization allows people in countries such as the United States to lend money to certain banks in developing countries. Lenders don’t receive...
...near giddy over occupying a globetrotting-catalyst status normally reserved for ex-Presidents. If he no longer wants to be the official pastor of the Republican Party, that's in part because he needs support from both parties for his various world projects. His new willingness to embrace causes regardless of their political implications places him firmly in the movement of New Evangelicalism, which remains socially conservative but has opinions on, say, Christianity in China that don't align with either political party...
...means doing that regardless of the business fallout. This Olympics will test whether Western broadcasters are exporting openness or importing censorship, whether China is growing more open or we just ignore its reality so we can make money. Western audiences need and want to know more about this country that figures ever more in their lives in ways good, bad and ambiguous. Let's not tell them to forget it and look at the cute panda. time.com/tunedin
...bribery affair and could slap hefty fines on the company unless Siemens demonstrates that it is taking convincing action to clean up the mess on its own. "The SEC plays a role in this decision in the sense that Siemens wants to show that it is pursuing everyone involved regardless of their past position or reputation," says Daniela Bergdolt of the German Association for the Protection of Securities Ownership. "They hope that if they show remorse, it will reduce the penalty." And while it still seems far-fetched to imagine any German business titan seen doing the perp walk like...
...rivals also smell blood. Tzipi Livni, his Foreign Minister and rival within the Kadima Party, called once again on Tuesday for the Prime Minister to resign, and Defense Secretary Ehud Barak, leader of the Labor Party, may join the pressure for Olmert to take the honorable way out. Regardless of his preferences, Olmert may have to resign anyway if he is indicted on corruption charges alleging that he accepted cash from a U.S. businessman and doubled-charged travel expenses to Israeli charities that had sponsored his trips. But passing the stage of the current cast of paper-tiger leaders...