Indeed, it is the effect of the war, which has displaced many thousands of ethnic Pashtuns from the northern tribal areas and sent them to this southern port, that has inflamed Karachi's always volatile ethnic balance.
They are now scrambling to decide what to do.Eventually, international rules will probably be tightened to require the actual, volatile numbers on balance sheets.
Iraq became seen as a country supporting Iranian ambitions, rather than balancing them, thereby further destabilising an already volatile regional power-balance".
Mr. Ackermann reaffirmed the bank's strategy, a balance between volatile trading businesses and more stable operations, like asset and wealth management and retail banking.
(Chinen) ★ Tim Berne's Snakeoil (Wednesday) Mr. Berne, the alto saxophonist and composer, has a potent new album, "Snakeoil" (ECM), that typifies his relentlessly inventive style: meticulous but volatile, with a shifting balance between convoluted form and wide-open improvisation.
They have to balance the volatile energy consumption with the variable power generation.
Yet France's party balance looks increasingly volatile, thanks to disarray on both the left and the right.
The company is highly leveraged, and a major player in volatile derivatives markets, making its balance sheet as difficult to grasp as Enron's.
It's possible that China will find the right balance for its volatile markets, but it's possible, too, that it will follow the U.S.'s example, setting the breakers where they'll never be triggered at all — left in place just to be on the safe side, you know.
