As Ross writes, he situated enough dark material — conflict, grotesquerie, eroticism — in the marble halls of Soviet ballet to qualify as a modernist.
The Court must determine whether there is a material conflict between the laws of California and those of the Plaintiffs' home states.
Another mind-bender will be to sort standardised and customised derivatives.Of particular concern to capital-markets firms is a provision inserted late, after the SEC had filed fraud charges against Goldman over its marketing of a collateralised-debt obligation which bans banks that package together asset-backed securities from any related transaction that causes a "material conflict of interest".
FINRA charged De Zoysa with failing to disclose in 19 published research reports her romantic relationship with an executive of a company in her coverage area, which was an actual, material conflict of interest.
Since the adjective "romantic" apparently makes all the difference, it might have been helpful for FINRA to explain where this relationship line is and when it crossed into something constituting a material conflict of interest.
"We place no institutional heft behind an effort to address the causal issues of violence, diminishing its psychological force before it erupts into material conflict.
The CFO still has to judge whether all issues are on the table, and which ones might pose a material conflict.
Through it all, Fawcett argues, four broad ideals have guided liberal practice: "acknowledgement of inescapable ethical and material conflict within society, distrust of power, faith in human progress, and respect for people whatever they think and whoever they are".
It would likely do this by prohibiting originators of asset-backed securities from acting in any way that creates a material conflict of interest with investors by undermining the value, safety or performance of the securities they sell.
"It is absolutely ludicrous to tell somebody he has a material conflict of interest in voting on these routine appointments". Agran said he received $700 last year for serving long hours as his city's representative on the Orange County Fire Authority, an amount he said helps cover gas and expenses.
