Word: situationer
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The back-and-forth can feel esoteric, but, in fact, it goes to the heart of solving the problem. "If losing firms are sucking up all the credit, then isn't the [correct] policy response to let banks cancel lines of credit?" asks Octavio Marenzi, CEO of the banking consultancy...
Frank Badillo, an economist at TNS Retail Forward, had projected December sales at some stores to rise slightly, by 1.5%, from the previous year. Now, he expects sales to rise only between .5% and 1%. "In some ways," he says, "the current situation is even worse than 1990."
Let's say you're doing some last-minute Christmas shopping. A purely theoretical situation, we're sure. You walk into a Best Buy to check out digital cameras. One model has a higher resolution than another, but you can't tell the difference in picture quality. The higher res...
Automakers waited all week for news of the expected bridge loan, which finally came on Friday. "The longer we wait, the worse the situation becomes," said one auto executive close to the situation. The Wall Street Journal reported that GM and Chrysler restarted merger talks, but both companies have flatly...
2. On how "situational variables" trump empathy: "Participants who were high in empathic concern expressed a reluctance to continue the procedure earlier than did those who were low on this trait. But this early reluctance did not translate into a greater likelihood of refusing to continue. This latter finding fails...