With the shakeout in technology stocks, for example, the assets of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, in Los Altos, Calif.
National accounts use a crude definition of "financial firm" that can include not just banks but many other entities for example, the assets of investment funds, which may not pay corporation tax.
For example, the assets of just the top six banks grew from about 20percentt of gross domestic product in 1997 to more than 60percentt of gross domestic product in 2008.
But there are steps that Washington could take to prevent Khartoum from allowing a new slaughter, of the two million civilians clustered in relief camps; for example, targeting the assets of Sudanese leaders, whose lifeblood, as John Prendergast, of the International Crisis Group, points out, flows from shell companies and fraudulent charities set up to siphon off the country's new oil wealth.
A private-equity firm called Texas Pacific, for example, snapped up the assets of Swissair's catering operations after the carrier went bust.
For example, creditors cannot seize the assets of a resort like Foxwoods or take an equity stake because of restrictions in the Indian Gaming Authority Act, according to a June report written by Moody's Investors Service analysts.
For example, a bank holding the assets of a fishing enterprise that has gone into bankruptcy could refuse to allow quota units to be passed on to a third party and insist instead that these be used for payments towards its outstanding debts.
Last June, for example, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sold off the assets of a blind trust she owned, including shares of Raytheon stock.
So, for example, Wells Fargo has about twice the assets of Goldman Sachs, but primarily funds itself with bank deposits and engages in relatively plain consumer and business lending.
I have never seen in continental Europe an example of planning failing so utterly, the assets of sea and historic city wasted so totally, a visual sense atrophied so completely, and urban qualities ignored with such aggressive philistinism.
Yanzhou Coal Mining, a Chinese company, bought Felix Resources for 3.5 billion Australian dollars in 2009, for example, while Minmetals bought most of the assets of the Australian mining company Oz Minerals.
