• The second effect relates to deals where Lehman was a counterparty, ie, a buyer or seller of a swaps contract.

    ECONOMIST: The fallout from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

  • Next year it aims to achieve a primary surplus - ie a budget surplus, excluding the costs it pays to service its debts.

    BBC: The Greek conundrum

  • Instead of working to a pre-arranged formula, a generator (ie, a parser in reverse) is brought into play to create a sentence structure in the target language.

    ECONOMIST: A gift of tongues

  • This microscopic scale and sensitivity allows the sensor to map a high-resolution image of electrical charge that occurs over the surface of a source material (for example a human finger), when it makes contact with a thin insulating surface (ie a plastic surface).

    FORBES: Can Forensic Scientists Tell How Old A Fingerprint Is?

  • In order for the NHS to work stop them competing with the corporate institutions and put doctors on a commission basis, where they are able to get very high salaries proportional to the number of times a patient has to return to get a cure ie pay them for results and not numbers.

    BBC: News | NHS at 50 | The NHS at 50: What you think

  • At that time they said the most obvious solution would be an above-politics left-nationalist figure, a "Greek Kirchner" or "Greek Morales", and that the absence of such a figure would make it impossible to form what Marxists refer to as a "workers government" - ie a radical reforming government with the participation of the far left, but limited to parliamentary means.

    BBC: Greece: Trying to understand Syriza

  • But once a user customizes IE, it's difficult to return it to a portal-less state.

    CNN: The road to IE5 isn't without bumps

  • In theory, if executive pay rose too high because it was set in a market dominated by cronyism (ie, a board of directors who are chums of the boss, who appointed them), then shouldn't a move to a system in which the board actually tries to get value for the shareholders' money result in lower pay?

    ECONOMIST: Why executive pay can never come down

  • Within a few days, that was proven false as researcher Dino Dai Zovi, followed by others, used the same exploit on a Windows 7 machine running IE 8, a technique he demonstrated live at the RSA Conference in March.

    FORBES: How Bad Assumptions Are Making Software Less Secure

  • Within that constituency, interviewers were then told to find people with a given set of characteristics--ie, a certain proportion of men and women, of blue-collar and white-collar workers.

    ECONOMIST: Why the polls got it wrong last time

  • Instead of trying to come up with a routine check-in (ie: once a week, every two weeks, etc.), just focus on reaching out when you have a timely, newsworthy story idea.

    FORBES: Almost-Famous: How One Blogger Got A Lucky Break

  • CDM's imaging system, it passes first through conventional optical elements, and then through a lens moulded into a shape of a cubic-like function (ie, with a surface which, instead of being spherical, is relatively flat in the centre but has scalloped edges).

    ECONOMIST: MONITOR

  • They deprived Latin American countries of a relatively painless way to improve their trade balance, ie, a competitive devaluation.

    ECONOMIST: The Fund's golden Rato

  • The Economist (December 6th) has decided that a good solution to the problem of road congestion (ie, a possible misallocation of resources) is for people to give more money to government.

    ECONOMIST: Excessive

  • Have we, post-WWII, actually had a substantial (ie, decade or more long) period when this was true?

    FORBES: US AAA Downgrade: S&P's Not $2 Trillion Math Error

  • Estimates of the number who are without a current (ie, chequebook) account range as high as 23%.

    ECONOMIST: Squeezing the banks

  • The big remaining question is, how much of a haircut (ie, loss) are the lenders going to have to take?

    FORBES: The Greek Haircut Could Reach 100%

  • Foreign investors report presentations by the Central Bank mentioning a real (ie, inflation-adjusted) exchange rate that implies annual inflation of around 20%.

    ECONOMIST: Argentina��s inflation problem

  • The Kin additionally shares the Zune HD's browser engine, a hybrid of IE 7 and 8 that features pinch-to-zoom but has no support for Flash or Silverlight.

    ENGADGET: Microsoft Kin: everything you ever wanted to know

  • He believes that even if a consumer uses IE, they still benefit from having competitors in the browser market because Microsoft takes notice of what the competition is doing.

    CNN: Browser choice benefits Web users

  • Some 43%, according to one poll, consider experience of running a business (ie, Ms Whitman) more useful for the governor's job, whereas 44% value experience of running government (Mr Brown).

    ECONOMIST: The California governor's race

  • Brylane, one of the market leaders, sells clothes up to size 60, and finds that a third of its large-size business is in 28 (ie, a 45-inch waist) and over.

    ECONOMIST: That other national expansion

  • Our company does not provide health insurance, because our workers, even our most senior managers, only work for us seasonally (ie a few months of the year) and many work part-time.

    FORBES: Regime Uncertainty and Obamacare

  • This basically makes any site you visit think the Pocket PC is a PC running IE, very useful for when your bank doesn't want to support mobile devices, but you still want to log-in.

    ENGADGET: What gadgets support Gmail right now?

  • Secondly, he pointed out that his plan is to meet what he calls his "mandate" - to eliminate the structural deficit over the lifetime of this Parliament - a year early ie in four years and not five.

    BBC: Carrying on regardless

  • As far as the rest of humanity goes, ever since the persistent Dennis Tito secured his place as the first tourist in space, he has become a rallying point for enthusiasts trying to get access to space for a broader (ie, poorer) range of customers.

    ECONOMIST: Space tourism

  • Qualified-majority voting means, at present, that a proposal must get at least 62 out of 87 possible votes (ie, a 71% majority) to pass.

    ECONOMIST: The Union��s tricky treaty

  • How about a Royal College for teaching, Ms Leslie suggests, providing a universally-recognised career progression to the teaching equivalent of the consultant surgeon, ie, a practitioner of the highest quality who also teaches younger colleagues?

    ECONOMIST: Fixing British education

  • If you have made a good genetic choice of partner (ie, someone with a significantly different MHC), then the theory suggests that you should not be able to choose something that smells nice to them based on your own preferences.

    ECONOMIST: Perfume science

  • Sharepoint has a huge information ecosystem that, like the system integrators, resells the benefits of Sharepoint ( Harmon.ie produced a great infographic of it a few months back).

    FORBES: Microsoft's SharePoint Social Business Strategy Will Sell But It Will Not Be Sweet

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