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...stringent hiring trend posed a stark contrast to the tremendous prosperity of the preceding years: in the decade prior to the financial crisis, the professoriate grew by roughly 20 percent—from 589 to 712 individuals—and plans were in place to hire as many...
Eshoo proposed the amendment, which would make the review process for outside employment more stringent, because she feels it is currently “a rubber stamp deal. No one’s really looking at it or keeping a close eye on it.” Her statements have suggested that instead, the government should allow considerably fewer forms of secondary employment. This would mean, for example, reconsidering jobs in “deception detection,” in which officers help private firms tell when executives are lying about their companies...
...Skal’s final project been subject to “more of a stringent grade,” she said she probably would not have chosen to explore such an unfamiliar dance method...
...estimate of damages from one more ton of CO2 added to the atmosphere. (One ton of CO2 is what the average family car emits every two-and-a-half months.) The SCC is important because a low number suggests minimal regulation is needed, whereas a high number urges more stringent action (such as efficiency requirements, carbon taxes or alternative energy incentives...
Raising and strictly enforcing capital requirements is vital to creating a more stable financial system. During the financial crisis, plummeting assets and the consequential market panic caused almost every major bank to fear for its solvency. Had there been more stringent capital requirements, banks would not have been in such dire trouble. As Alan Greenspan notes in his recent paper on the crisis, while requirements should not be onerous, they should leave banks in a position to effectively manage during most crises. The current legislation in the Senate directs regulators to enforce higher capital requirements but without specific capital levels...