The S.E.C. now promises modest new measures to contain the damage that the rating agencies can do — measures that fail to address the central problem: that the raters are paid by the issuers.
Marcelo P. Lima Miami, Jan . 5 2009 To the Editor: Michael Lewis and David Einhorn write that the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed "measures that fail to address the central problem: that the raters are paid by the issuers".
But even if Mr. Potter were to get his way on these two items, they would still be only stop-gap measures that fail to tackle the bigger question.
These inconsistencies might be partly due to the use of general measures that fail to consider whether fear of cancer has many dimensions.
When compared to such potential measures, the use of expressive measures that fail to impose any concrete impositions on individuals, and which one is, in theory, simply able to ignore may be considered as representing the type pf measure with the least effect on individual liberty possible, even where they are in certain circumstances capable of brining about certain unintended effects.
The White House kept up the pressure on Saturday, urging Congress not to play "reckless political games" and warning against stop-gap measures that fail to tackle the deficit.
By serving as champions for these individuals, Senators Durbin and Lugar have shown that our federal government must commit itself to addressing the fundamental inadequacies of our broken immigration laws rather than continuing to rely on measures that fail to target the root of the problem.
Having been at a reception centre or being eligible for an Amnesty Certificate are crude targeting measures that fail to identify the most vulnerable and underprivileged young people in northern Uganda.
It was his measure that failed today, on a vote of 52 to 48, largely along party lines.
"It was a cost-saving measure that failed," said Robert Cvejanovich of Cannon Architecture and Design, the firm that designed the renovation, which began two years ago.
