Some people want a McDonald's world and others want a AAA Michelin star-rated restaurant.
If you buy dinner from a three-star Michelin restaurant you can be confident of getting a good meal, but today if you buy a bond from an AAA-rated borrower you can be rather less sure of getting your money back.
The Nao also has all of the features of its less advanced counterparts: water resistance, a comfortable and easy-to-adjust strap and a rechargeable Li-ion battery that, in a pinch, can be swapped out easily for two AAA batteries.
To return to Moody's for a second, it is difficult to see Germany retaining its AAA rating in the immediate aftermath of a eurozone breakup or in the transition phase to a United States of Europe - though it might well get the AAA back in both cases, in time.
It's a billion-dollar business, but most of it goes to the major-league-affiliated teams (Class A, AA and AAA), which break even only by dint of help from their major league parents.
The standing of the fund relies on the credit of the countries that back it, including France, which is threatened with a two-notch downgrade to its AAA credit rating by Standard and Poor's.
The U.S. has not been a AAA-rated nation in the absolute sense for a while.
After all, it is a Forbes 5-Star property (and AAA 5-Diamond).
Many of her highly leveraged companies are severely troubled and as a result her once triple-AAA bond deals have been reduced to junk status.
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But there was a shortage of genuine AAA-rated bonds.
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At the same time, it will probably lose a deal of its cross-platform games when AAA developers start to produce for hardware that the Wii U may not be able to compete with.
He talked of the "structural advantages" of investing a big endowment backed by an AAA-rated university, such as allowing you to borrow at low rates when making leveraged bets.
In addition, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury have jointly announced a facility that will lend against AAA-rated asset-backed securities collateralized by student loans, auto loans, credit card loans, and loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration.
The business of publishing road atlases and maps, previously dominated in North America by players like Rand McNally and AAA, was a data-scarcity-driven business (real-time position and road condition information was too expensive to collect and deliver to the point of use).
The Grand Velas is a AAA five diamond property with on-site restaurants garnering four-diamond status.
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Because they were AAA-rated and yielded a premium over the banks' cost of capital.
Also, if a bank turned stinky subprime loans into AAA-rated bonds, again it could massage down the capital it needed to hold.
The UK currently holds a AAA rating from all three agencies - the only country apart from Germany and Canada to do so.
For Austria the loss of the AAA will be a bigger shock - although the financial woes of Hungary have conspicuously weakened the finances of Austrian banks that have big Hungarian loans.
Insurance company AAA Mid-Atlantic recently cited a case involving a thief in Bethesda, Md.
In May, MIT offered those AAA 100-year bonds with a yield of 5.6%, which were quickly snapped up.
Because for there to be enough money for the deficit nations to borrow cheaply, there must be an AAA rating and a 30% cash-to-loan deposit, as I understand it.
It rates Wells Fargo as "AAA" for depositors--a positive sign that could help the bank lure new customers rattled by the huge losses being wracked up by other big lenders.
One of the smallest properties in the world to earn a Forbes (formerly Mobil) 5-Star rating, along with 5-AAA Diamonds, Twin Farms has just 20 luxurious accommodations, but offers all the bells and whistles of a much larger luxury resort, from downhill skiing to guided hikes, except they are all totally private for guests.
Nashville has one of the best hotels for a city its size in the world, the Forbes 5-Star, AAA 5-Diamond Hermitage, in the heart of downtown.
The accompanying slideshow of 20 Best Cars For Senior Drivers was culled from a search of the aforementioned AAA database, and features four-door vehicles that include the greatest number of the above features.
If the US and French examples are anything to go by, the loss of another top AAA rating - from Fitch - will not make a big difference to the government's borrowing costs either.
If one of the monolines were to lose its cherished AAA rating a prospect that no longer looks far-fetched huge numbers of securities would be adversely affected, since they cannot have a higher rating than the company insuring them.
The single-player campaign, for all its AAA glitz and gunfire, is a pretty uninspiring experience.
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