Mark Phin, an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, called the earnings report "over all, a slightly weaker set of numbers than we had hoped".
"So while you are saving the federal government a lot of money, you are transferring the obligation to a much weaker set of tax bases," Ravitch pointed out.
He also showed that no such system can prove its own consistency: a stronger set of logical assumptions is needed to prove the consistency of a weaker set (a result of profound importance in the theory of computing).
Or, it could allow time for the FCC to talk itself into a weaker set of regulations.
Further, we compare these two sets of conditions and identify the weaker set.
We also compare these two sets of conditions and identify the weaker set.
But relaxing Gilbert's conditions would naturally result in another perhaps weaker set of dynamic constraints, and not in their complete absence.
Cheung and Chappell (2002) conjecture that the CRM is consistent under a much weaker set of conditions and test their conjecture by a simulation study, but do not provide a formal proof for their claim.
"It's odd that what's happening now, after the last two years, is a weaker set of covenants than at the peak of the market," says Moody's covenant analyst Alexander Dill.
Analysts had been preparing themselves for a slightly weaker set of production results for the last quarter of 2006, but for investors, they ended up being just too much of a disappointment.
