The term science-help is also not a line in the sand between good and bad books.
Some industry analysts reckon this may be the only way out for companies stuck in European consumers' bad books.
Without due diligence, though, "bad books just sort of sift in, like dust, " said Mr. McMurtry, who purges his collection at least once a year.
The Man Booker does so much horse trading, has so many arguments, and people talk complete nonsense about it and occasionally choose ridiculously bad books for no good reason, but all of that is done behind closed doors so you never see it.
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We were repeatedly advised that liquidity in wholesale markets depended on lending quality: good loan books would continue to attract funding when bad loan books began to default.
For more minor ailments, bad loan books may be excised and the rest of the bank restored to health with a transfusion of new capital.
His arrival at RBS in April is likely to herald another brutal re-examination of its books for bad debts.
The central government, in response to the 1990s crisis, took bad loans off the books of the four largest banks by having newly formed asset management companies buy troubled assets at above-market values.
China's big state-controlled banks were among the largest initial public offerings in the world when they listed in recent years, but their recent stock performance has been weak, as investors worry that they are carrying bad debts on their books.
Yet too many still have an awful lot of bad debts left on their books.
After making some bad bets and manipulating the books, he wants to sell his company to a bank.
Some banks will not lend because of "toxic assets" on their books, potentially bad debts which could eat up their capital.
Better to put their loan officers to work cleaning up those bad mortgage loans already on the books.
Koreas banks didnt implode, but their bad loans still stand on the books.
To avoid getting stuck with bad inventory, the company only accepts books that have proven demand.
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On the plus side, this means that investments that have gone bad no longer stay on companies' books at grossly inflated historic-cost valuations.
The idea is the government would basically buy up the millions of problematic loans to slow foreclosures and get the bad investments off of everybody's books.
Another trading week is in the books and it would appear the bad news bulls are once again in charge of this market.
It had been trying to bring down the amount of debt it had on its books, shedding among other things bad mortgages and other loans.
But the second problem is that doubts about the bad debts banks may have on their own books have caused their own financing costs to rise.
The plan, which Buffett floated to the companies last week, would effectively give the Omaha billionaire control over the companies' good books and leave them to deal with the bad stuff: credit-derivatives exposure that threatens to swamp their over-leveraged capital bases.
The intent of this page is to mention only those business books we judge as great--or notably bad.
Too many bad loans from the housing crisis have made their way onto the books of too many banks.
These songs make for a not-bad record, but it's largely the similarities to the books, their black humor and oblique sense of populism, that make The Tragic Treasury an interesting listen.
Do personal finance books written by women for women perpetuate the myth that women are bad with money?
She admits to having stopped reading books as a result, which I warned her seemed like a bad sign to me.
You walk around a lot, discover or discard items, fight bad guys, and take breaks to watch interstitial movies that patch together ideas from other books or movies (or make no sense whatsoever).
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But the more interesting debate, as the two previous books discussed here make clear, is about finding ways to tell good rule-making from bad.
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