Fagel implied that the SEC did not start looking into the matter until after the stock had collapsed, lessening the time urgency because investors had already lost their money.
If a continuing gradual fall in the dollar trims the current-account deficit, this could, paradoxically, also lessen the chance of a sudden collapse of confidence in the dollar.Europe's opportunityIn Europe a weak dollar is feared and resented.
To lessen the chances of a financial collapse, Mr. Bernanke engineered the takeover of one investment bank, Bear Stearns, and tossed credit lifelines to others with exotic new lending facilities — the Fed now has seven such lending windows, some of them for investment banks as well as commercial banks.
This would lessen the risk of a housing collapse and minimize costs to taxpayers, Rosner said, as opposed to the administration's preferred approach of a continued government role, which he argues simply continues the current system of privatized gains and socialized losses.
The noontime rally was planned a week ago to show support for the United States troops in Iraq, but anxiety over the war seemed to lessen Wednesday and yesterday with the apparent collapse of Mr. Hussein's government and the toppling of his statue.
Do they believe that, through the power of prayer, disasters like Hurricane Katrina or the Minnesota bridge collapse could have been prevented or lessened?The question reminds me of Jerry Falwell's suggestion that gays and feminists were to blame for the attacks of September 11th.
For years, of course, I felt I knew Dan well, worried that lessening the little distance between us could lead to collapse.
LUXEMBOURG — European Union finance ministers haggled early into Saturday morning over rules to lessen the chances that taxpayers will bear the burden if banks collapse, but they failed to reach a deal.
The collapse of oil's price from $146 to $67 greatly lessens the profitability of deepwater drilling but does not eliminate it.
The Premier League believes the restrictions lessens the chances of the top flight suffering another Portsmouth-style collapse as any club making any loss of over £5m a year will have to guarantee those losses against the owner's assets.
