Word: upshot
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...them. In a complex transaction, UBS exchanged j290 million of the rest for credit-linked notes issued by a Portuguese bank in the Cayman Islands, which were then transferred to Parmalat. The notes came with a tough default clause that was triggered when Parmalat went bankrupt in December. The upshot: the j290 million went back to UBS. The banks don't dispute these transactions. The question is: Did the banks demand the unusually aggressive deals because they knew how perilous the company's financial situation was? And if so, could those deals be construed as contributing to Parmalat's downfall...
...difference could be summed up by a look at the parties we threw. For them, Pabst Blue Ribbon, for us, Tanqueray; for them, Beirut, for us, bartender; for them, summer interns and friends of friends, for us, college buddies. The upshot was a slightly faster and looser summer than we had anticipated. There was the iPod that was stolen and the wallet that mysteriously vanished. There was the guy who made his way freely into upstairs bedrooms at 3 a.m. on a weeknight, and after being turned away, proceeded to vomit on our couch. And simply best of all, there...
...upshot has been that even since Bill skipped town Tuesday, the remainder of the convention has clearly been guided by his spirit. Vice presidential candidate Sen. John R. Edwards, D-N.C., made the upbeat, down-home populism of Clinton his own last night, urging listeners to adopt the “politics of hope” and reminding them that “hope...
...upshot of this shift is that the University has a much harder time recruiting top faculty and students in the life sciences, faculty...
...upshot has been a slew of fawning national media attention, from what Summers acknowledges was a flattering New York Times Magazine profile, lauding his bold activism on campus, to puff question-and-answer pieces in Time and The Wall Street Journal, to a spate of other positive stories on the curricular review and other Summers issues...