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...With foreign banks entering the market and Vietnam's biggest banks cleaning up their acts, the smallest private banks are likely to feel the squeeze. Foreign institutions will skim the cream of the wealthiest customers and least-risky loans, while the restructured state banks will be going after smaller accounts, issuing credit cards and loaning money to small- and medium-sized Vietnamese companies. Cany predicts the number of private banks in Vietnam will fall by at least half to less than 20 within five years due to failure or merger. Their only hope is to expand their reach and sophistication...
...diary products per day were over twice as likely to have anovulatory infertility as compared with women who ate one or less serving of low-fat dairy a week, after accounting for other possibly confounding factors, such as exercise. Even women who consumed only one or more servings of skim or low-fat milk per week had a significantly increased risk of anovulatory infertility than women with an intake of less than one per week. But leading author Jorge E. Chavarro, a research fellow in Harvard’s Department of Nutrition, cautioned about the need for future research...
...have nothing against “Us Weekly” magazine. I mean, who doesn’t love to skim its pages for gritty gossip and fashionable celeb photos? But when it comes to a biography of the literary heroes of Transcendentalism, I just can’t get behind this style of all hype and no substance. In a delivery disastrously aimed at the hip-intellectual readership, Susan Cheever’s “American Bloomsbury” reduces Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau to a group...
...through the nose for it? (And let me tell you, all those stories you've heard about how expensive London is? They don't come close to the ghastly truth.) Shed a tear for the "genuinely local coffee shops"? Don't think so. Mine's a triple grande skim latte, and the only regret is that I had to wait until I was middle-aged to buy it in London...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...