Pushing for a vote on a time ceiling at the UN Security Council has forced more movement in European and American capitals than in years past.
According to an enthralled account published at the time, "The ceiling is decorated to represent a blue sky in which electric stars twinkle, while by an ingenious arrangement of optical apparatus, the effect of clouds sweeping over the sky is produced".
Items were considered for deletion, based on psychometric criteria: if the item had missing data (i.e., no response) >5% of the time; if ceiling effects were present (>50% optimal response); or if item-to-item correlations within the total item pool were high, thus indicating redundancy between items (Pearson's correlation coefficient >0.70) [ 12].
Items were considered for deletion, based on psychometric criteria, if the item had missing data (i.e., no response) >5% of the time, if ceiling effects were present (>50% optimal response) or if item-to-item correlations within the total item pool were high, thus indicating redundancy between items (Pearson's correlation coefficient >0.70) [ 31].
"It's not safe," she said, as she remembered the time when the ceiling in her bathroom collapsed.
Some people have also asked whether the Treasury could issue, say, $5 trillion or $10 trillion of new debt during the time the debt ceiling was suspended.
Some models even have a remote unit that will tell the temperature and humidity outside, and others have a radio and can project the time onto the ceiling.
ReprintsA weapon of mass financial destructionMost of the time, the debt ceiling has been an annoyance, affording whichever party was out of power the opportunity to extract concessions before allowing normal borrowing to resume.
You also get this handy travel clock that displays the time on the ceiling!
Having soared to an all-time high and outperformed markets overseas, the benchmark S&P 500 is ripe for a correction, said Singer, who holds put options on the index that expire in late October, around the time the debt ceiling impasse may come to a head.
