The same Standard & Poor's report that praised Egyptian banks for resisting exotic securities also downgraded four of them because of their overexposure to government treasuries "at a time when Egypt's credit worthiness has deteriorated markedly".
And Christie's will provide similar services once a client's credit worthiness has been substantiated.
Could "worthiness" have something to do with it?
When my worthiness had nothing to with my finger picking, the compulsion went away.
Is for Lovers First stop was a panel on "buzzy" books for the fall season — buzz-worthiness having been awarded, it seemed, by John Evans, a trim, eloquent man who is the buyer for Diesel books, and the host of the panel.
"There is a competitive element to this trend as parents-to-be are compelled to create increasingly lavish public rituals to prove their worthiness in having and raising a child," Dr. Carly Gieseler, an assistant professor at the City University of New York who has studied this growing trend, shared with me.
Certainly in terms of Tony worthiness, there have been sparser seasons on record, at least statistically.
Unlike the rest of our measures, the trends for Punishment Worthiness should have monotonically negative shapes; however, the nonlinear trends for this variable did not match any of the predicted shapes.
On a personal note, I realised that there is nothing quite like "presenting" a film to give the appearance of hard work and general worthiness without actually having to do anything.
The banking supervisors' committee offered only a broad description of how the tests will be conducted, and it remained unclear whether they will be rigorous and detailed enough to clear up doubts about credit-worthiness that have choked interbank lending in Europe.
To persuade the EU of its credit-worthiness, Greece has announced a series of reforms.
