At some institutions, mounting losses are making the cushions of capital held for times of crisis look increasingly threadbare.

对某些机构来说，越积越多的损失使它们为市场危机准备的缓冲资本变得不堪一击。

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At some institutions, a special effort is made to assign foreign students to academic advisers who have shown interest in or have had good experience with foreign students.

有些学校特别尽量把留学生指派给对留学生很有经验或感兴趣的学业顾问。

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Some institutions argue that accounting rules permit them to hold derivatives at cost.

一些机构辩称，会计规则允许它们以成本持有衍生品。

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At some prestigious institutions like the Universities of Virginia or Michigan, state government funds make up roughly 10 percent or so of the budget not chump change, but far less of a factor in financing the enterprise than a generation or more ago when the proportion was 20 or even 30 percent.

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Yet moving toward any form of democratic rule in Iraq will be even more difficult than it was in the Balkans, experts contend, where at least some democratic institutions existed, dating from the early 20th century.

MSN: An occupation without precedent

Put another way, Britain's universities are free to market themselves globally saying: 'you can come and study here at some of the finest institutions anywhere in the world - and you can stay and work in a graduate job after you leave.

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