It's not the mortgages, it's the borrowers.' " Bair was convinced that the key to resolving the crisis was to get lenders to modify their loans rather than allow homes to go into foreclosure and set off a cascading effect throughout the economy.
He was still a work in progress, but we had something to work with in trying to get him to modify his outlook".
But I have never been censored, nor has the company ever made the slightest attempt to get me to modify a particular view.
But getting people to modify behavior in small, positive ways has proven effective in spurring bigger lifestyle changes.
Moreover, the typical troubled mortgage is getting harder to modify because it is more likely to be the result of unemployment than an interest-rate increase.
"This is a monumental event, because the French Competition Authority got Google to modify its contractual rules on a worldwide basis," said Ron Soffer, a lawyer for Navx.
However, the agency traditionally has resisted what it regards as overly prescriptive language and has had some success in getting legislators to modify directives that NSF sees as misdirected or duplicative of existing efforts.
Currently, federal banking regulators can secretly get banks to modify their behavior and practices.
"When you own something you get to customize it, modify it, move it around — the things that we do all the time with physical property," Professor Schultz said.
In its most recent quarter, Grand Theft Auto V publisher Take-Two Interactive touted its continuing sales as a "key driver," in part thanks to in-game purchases made in the multiplayer Grand Theft Auto Online, and this is the first opportunity PC gamers are getting to play and modify the game.
