And he pushed through a provision that ensured virtually no regulation of the complex financial instruments known as derivatives, including credit swaps, contracts that would encourage risky investment practices at Wall Street's most venerable institutions and spread the risks, like a virus, around the world.
These tactics allow operations to sway public opinion about specific issues, sow distrust in political institutions, and spread confusion.
Our SC problem, which began in young offenders institutions and spread to create more addicts in the streets and adult jails, was not created solely in a lab.
Second, it is part of a contagious cluster that had caused numerous outbreaks at ICUs and the ward for burn wounds at the authors' institution and had spread among patients of the local CF clinic by nosocomial acquisition [38].
Deeply embedded in our culture is the idea that the United States has a mission to demonstrate the superiority of free institutions and to spread freedom throughout the world.
This new mission has proved more daunting: A quick scan of large New York museums' Web sites shows that objects greatly outnumber paintings at most institutions, and are spread among several categories besides sculpture, like design and decorative arts.
The SERS team 15 researchers from nine academic institutions and companies spread across the country came together after the participants realized their individual projects could be modified to make disaster relief efforts more effective.
(Or as Vice President Cheney succinctly put it last month to a questioner: "So?") So, if you're not worried about the moral hazard of removing the penalties that inhibit too much risk-taking, and you can justify intercession by the government because the demise of an erring institution would spread and is thus too big to fail, then proceed with the bailout.
These have highlighted risks from drinking water from poorly treated public and private supplies, swimming in swimming pools, contact with farm animals and spread within institutions such as day care centres.
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