Other leading consumer lenders, including Citigroup and J. P. Morgan Chase, reported strong growth last quarter, suggesting that Sears, whose credit cards are backed by its Sears National Bank subsidiary, has attracted a weaker pool of applicants than some of its competitors.
It may be as challenging as any of them, with an extraordinarily weak pool of prospects and no predictability beyond the top 10, or perhaps even the top five.
Possibilities of a weaker pool also exist with Equatorial Guinea or Gabon unlikely to complain if they get Angola, Burkina Faso and Botswana.
Left unmentioned was his ultimate loss to Mitt Romney in a relatively smaller and weaker pool of potential candidates.
Beyond that, the picture is not so clear – but a second place in Group B ensures a meeting with second place in Group F, perhaps the weakest pool of the six.
The change was scheduled for July 2005, but before it could happen, an analyst sent an e-mail saying that according to the investment bank Bear Stearns, the older model "had been the 'best' " at rating weaker pools of mortgages, compared with Moody's and Fitch.
An important consideration is that motif-binding domains instances, in excess, can significantly bind a pool of weaker motifs beyond their normal targets [ 66].
From its very tip trails down an anticlimax – a weak strip of multi-coloured plastic tape, which then pools on the floor in a dense tangle of spaghetti.
Moreover, although PAI-2 is a secreted protein, its signal sequence is relatively weak and there is a substantial pool of intracellular PAI-2 that is thought to play a role in inhibiting apoptosis (15); the biology of PAI-3 is not well understood.
There is also a weak suggestion of a reliable effect of discriminating unfamiliar objects when pooling across hemispheres, for voxels preselected as a function of sensitivity to finger-pad stimulation.
