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...introduction of U.S.-style deposit insurance in many countries means banks are less vulnerable to runs by depositors than they once were. Finally, the possibility still exists (though the odds are slimmer than they were a year ago) that the Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds could step in to recapitalize U.S. and European banks before they succumb to another great contraction...
...asset values pose not only a worry for economic growth, but also social stability, as ordinary folk watch their personal wealth evaporate. In China, the property sector accounts for 10% of national employment. Analysts believe that Beijing cannot afford a major collapse in the property market and will step in to aid developers and home buyers. Beijing already lent a hand to the faltering stock market in September by waiving taxes on some stock transactions to stimulate trading and ordering state agencies to buy up shares...
...this," she says. But as she started reliving the trauma, "I felt I needed someone alongside me to help me do it." At her online guide's suggestion, she now sees a counselor once a month; the cost is covered by Medicare. "E-therapy was a really positive first step," she says. "It brought me to where I needed...
What all this means is that the Academy doesn't contain the world of nature; it's penetrated by it. That's a good metaphor for the cooperative dealings with the environment that Piano wants his building to symbolize. He sees the project as a step toward developing what he calls "the aesthetics of sustainability," a new vocabulary of forms for a future in which green buildings will be the norm. "The 19th century was about new kinds of construction," he says. "Steel and so forth. And the 20th century created a language for that. Now architects must develop...
While the Pizzotti-Luft tandem will continue to flourish, other receivers must step up now that sophomore Marco Ianuzzi is done for the year with a fractured collarbone. According to Murphy, Harvard must rely on receivers sophomore Levi Richards, freshman Adam Chrissis, and junior Mike Clarke to give Pizzotti more options...