Some of the time, our hero is accompanied by his manager, Azamat (Ken Davitian), and also by a live bear, although Azamat looks more like a bear than the bear does.
Savers could benefit from storing their capital abroad, although emerging markets bear some degree of inherent risk.
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And although customers currently bear the expense of going to stores themselves, they are reluctant to pay for their shopping to be brought to them instead.
Although it does not bear out the notion of a terrorised and depressed middle class, theirs is not a complacent picture.
"People do worry about moral hazard, although I think that Bear Stearns was significantly punished, " says former Fed governor Meyer.
And although exchanges insist that bear markets can be as busy (and profitable) as bull markets, they tend to translate into fewer trades and less money for exchanges.
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Moreover, although there are bull and bear markets in houses, prices tend to be less volatile than they are for shares, with more moderate peaks and troughs than the stockmarket.
Poor management is another problem, although Italy's politicians must bear some of the blame in their choice of bosses and their reluctance to allow the radical restructuring that the airline has long needed.
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At the Treasury, where he had worked since 2006, he was the point man for the Bear Stearns crisis, although, as his remarks to a Senate Committee in April amply illustrate, the Treasury was largely a bystander, leaving the heavy lifting to the Federal Reserve.
Local consumers bear most of the cost, although some will fall on taxpayers now that the government is offering loans to exporters at negative real interest rates.
Although central banks did not prevent the equity bear market of 2000-02, the current strength of the stockmarket suggests investors' faith in this put has not been eliminated.
On the other hand, after last week Thompson could use a compelling witness, although, even if the ongoing immunity discussions bear fruit, Huang would be unlikely to appear this month.
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Although not an extraordinarily large company by many metrics, Bear Stearns was deeply involved in a number of critical markets, including (as I have noted) markets for short-term secured funding as well as those for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.
Although researchers could find no link between the crash in cave bear populations and other factors, the event did "coincide with the start of human expansion, " commented co-author Dr Aurora Grandal-D'Anglade of the University of Coruna, Spain.
Part of that was the United States government being so anxious to get the thing behind it, although how you could say Countrywide was a good acquisition and Bear Stearns was a bad acquisition in the same breath is not entirely clear to me.
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Although it can do nothing for Mr Lay, the fate of Bear Stearns illustrates how quickly a firm's prospects can go from promising to non-existent when counterparties lose confidence in it.
Although they were still unable to balance properly, they were able to bear more of their own weight themselves.
Although co-signing a loan can also help build your credit, bear in mind that you and your spouse or other co-signer are contractually obligated to pay off that money no matter what happens.
Although he has yet to close on a deal, Thornburg, a former Bear, Stearns limited partner, is already the talk of the fundraising world.
But he trusted Ivory's script and although he won't be watching - "I can't bear watching myself on screen" - he gives arguably the most powerful and memorable performance.
Say this for Stewart: Although he's a growth stock buyer, he holds up pretty well in bear markets.
Trone says he met with Bear Stearns Chief Executive JamesCayneJames Cayne last week, and Cayne indicated that although he saw China as an opportunity, there were plenty of risks to consider.
Although this figure was lower than the 54 that had been forecast one has to bear in mind that a level greater than 50 signals growth or an expanding base of economic activity.
Although teddies were invented in Germany and the US in 1902, it was the British who took the teddy bear to their hearts and opened bear making factories all over the country.
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