While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it.
If the agencies have misjudged one set of complex instruments, why not another?Buy-outs are still getting funded.
There's a strong philosophical point behind the endeavor, as Maute explains in the magazine Early Music America: given that we routinely adapt the music of the past for modern instruments, why not reverse the equation?
These structured instruments — why shouldn't we be able to rely on these ratings, as investors?" A main theme in Kroll's new projects, or potential projects, is trust — perhaps the scarcest commodity in today's financial markets.
PAGE 4 If classical musicians are so attached, literally and figuratively, to their sometimes million-dollar instruments, why is it we seem so frequently to read about their losing them?
If you like musical instruments, why not take music lessons?
If you have friends who also play instruments, why not meet together from time to time and do a fun jam session!
"Not letting an artist use the word 'f***," observes Craig Ferguson early on, "is like not allowing a guitar player to use the chord E. It's possible to play the instrument, but why...would you bother?" Carlin's signature "The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television" is recalled.
The New York String Orchestra includes performers on woodwind, brass and percussion instruments, but why tamper with a name that has both cachet and tradition, however inaccurate it is nowadays.
The endless opportunities to write contracts on underlying debt instruments explains why the outstanding value of credit-derivatives contracts has rocketed to $26 trillion $9 trillion more than six months ago, and seven times as much as in 2003.In many ways, these complex derivatives are good for economies.
Ad blockers are a blunt instrument, which is why we've instead focused on building tools like ad preferences to put control in people's hands".
