As Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said this week, regulations should allow capital "to serve its intended role as a buffer — one built up during good times and drawn down during bad times in a manner consistent with safety and soundness".
The rules of casting design are intended to ensure a satisfactory flow of the metal in the mould, proper solidification, proper filling for soundness, and consistent mechanical properties, and to prevent the formation of surface anomalies and structure that might lead to localized corrosion.
The predatory subprime lending crisis demonstrated what can happen when financial institutions fail to lend consistent with safety and soundness, which CRA requires.
Special care is given to the description of the multiple sources of bias, which should be controlled in order to assure study soundness and allow consistent conclusions.
Using these ideas, we introduce a new definition of logical consequence in the context of active logic, as well as a new definition of soundness such that, when reasoning with consistent premises, all classically sound rules remain sound in our new sense.
Horses must remain sound of limb to ensure lung soundness, and they must remain sound of lung to achieve and maintain limb soundness.
Collectively, the overall consistency of these results signals the soundness of the experimental designs used herein.
The outcome of rigorous validity and reliability tests for both the Iran questionnaire and the Australia questionnaire revealed that responses were very consistent over time, and thus provided testament to the soundness of the instruments' psychometric properties.
"But the M.T.A.," he said, "is an independent authority responsible for its financial soundness, and they were always encouraged to take actions that were consistent with their needs".
This set of reforms, which is consistent with the IFIAC's recommendations, would give the money and banking systems in the emerging economies the soundness required to establish a secure tap root into the vast pool of global savings and to do so without any IMF interference.
