The data packets of the Internet find their own way around disasters, just as their creators in the 1960's envisioned when they financed the development of the Internet's precursor to deal with an earlier threat -- Soviet missiles.
And so I wonder if you would be willing to describe a little bit of your learning curve about finance, and what you envision finance being in tomorrow's economy: Does it need to be smaller?
But there's no chapter on finance in "The Audacity of Hope". And so I wonder if you would be willing to describe a little bit of your learning curve about finance, and what you envision finance being in tomorrow's economy: Does it need to be smaller?
8. (SBU) Kaasjager was particularly concerned about bottlenecks in the flow of fast-track financing envisioned in the Copenhagen Accord.
For instance, the document compared the $1.5 billion in equity capital that Kohlberg, Kravis investors are putting into the deal to the $1 billion in comparable permanent financing envisioned by the management group.
Though the ambitious plan has not yet helped as many people as its original goals envisioned, the panel endorsed financing it beyond its 2009 expiration date.
How do you envision the finance team playing a part in not only the financial objectives, but in the main goal of educating customers throughout this initiative?
Justice Anthony Kennedy, in his majority opinion, envisioned a campaign finance system where all spending would be instantly disclosed via the internet, and outside groups would be completely independent from campaigns, thus limiting potential corruption.
It was a time of rapid growth in the number of cable television channels available in the United States, and Lamb envisioned a cable-industry financed nonprofit network for televising sessions of the U.S. Congress and other public affairs event and policy discussions.
The chancellor defended that statement — which Mr. Schäuble does not appear to have cleared with her in advance — by noting, as he has, that a third package was always considered likely and envisioned as such by finance ministers last autumn.
