Word: roundness
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There may be negative consequences, however, to this new round of intervention. As part of finalizing the details of the government's second stimulus package, Aso is also calling for changes to accounting rules, including a relaxation of capital adequacy requirements for banks and a suspension of the golden accounting rule of mark-to-market. Credit Suisse's Ina warns that fiddling with mark-to-market accounting (in which a bank's assets are assessed at market value) could have an affect on banks' financial earnings by "obscuring the realities." He warns that changing the current standard might "provide more...
After dominating throughout the fall season, it was more of the same from the Harvard women’s golf team this weekend. At the Lehigh Invitational, the Crimson paced through the field with rounds of 315 and 321 to notch its fourth victory in four tournaments this year. Now Harvard is confident it can carry this success through the offseason and into the spring, when the team will be favored to pick up a second consecutive Ivy championship. “It’s definitely great to get these results, but this is by no means...
...Quarterback merry-go-round continues for Princeton and it's paying off. Also the officiating is all Princeton today. They just gave Anderson a very generous spot for a first down and the earlier call which led to Princton's touchdown...
...would seem also that travel by itself negates any possibility of eco-benefit, since flying burns so much carbon; a round-trip from New York to Nairobi, one popular ecotourism destination, creates nearly nine tons of carbon dioxide per person. Not to mention that the national parks, nature sanctuaries and remote wildlife reserves that draw most ecotravelers can be damaged by the foot traffic, to say nothing of the development that comes with tourism...
...fact, the current round of attention could work in the far right's favor, says Hofer. Haider was a divisive figure who once referred to the members of Nazi Germany's Waffen SS as deserving of as much honor as any German soldier, and who praised Hitler's employment policies. But the emotion and media frenzy around his death, which Hofer compares to England's trauma over the passing of Princess Diana, has distracted people from Haider's far-right legacy. Haider's party will contest elections in the province of Carinthia next spring. Few observers doubt that the party...