Word: wallness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coordinator, teaching fellow, and exam grader positions he holds to earn a little more. This week, he received an e-mail from Kirkland saying he and Mariana have gone over their meal quota and will have to cut back. And for a while this semester, the students across the wall from Mariana’s room were having particularly loud...
...Richard Bove to conclude that “U.S. banks now have more capital as a percentage of assets than in any year since 1935.” Nevertheless, the perception remains that Washington is making all the wrong moves; critics on the left suspect an incestuous relationship between Wall Street and Capitol Hill and those on the right decry a socialist takeover of the financial system. Lost in this maelstrom of punditry is the fact that the government has recouped most of its bailout money and divested its involvement in banking. Obama must argue before the American public that...
...blasting boatloads of money around Washington to block reform. It's at least plausible, as I've written, that if President Obama succeeds at framing reform as a stark banks-vs.-people choice, and enough Republicans get nervous about the political price they might pay for siding with Wall Street, a deal could be cut to get the issue out of the news before November. And the most recent behavior of Republicans - their hopeful rhetoric about reform, their sudden openness to concessions on the consumer financial-protection agency they've been bashing for months - is consistent with a desire...
...outspoken about the need for a dramatic regulatory overhaul to prevent another financial meltdown. But he's been so outspoken - especially about the consumer agency - that it would be tough for him to accept anything less dramatic than his tough proposals. And many Democrats see an uncompromising stance against Wall Street as a political winner; if it doesn't produce a bill, they're happy to have an issue they can use against Republicans in the fall...
...learned, were kodokushi, or "lonely deaths." Now he has seen plenty - these deaths make up 300 of the 1,500 cleaning jobs performed by his company each year. The people die alone, sprawled on the floor beside crumpled clothing and dirty dishes, tucked beneath flowery bedspreads, slouched against the wall. Months - even years - can pass before somebody notices a body. On occasion, all that's left are bones. "The majority of lonely deaths are people who are kind of messy," says Yoshida. "It's the person who, when they take something out, they don't put it back; when something...