IBM's silver high-rise headquarters in Buenos Aires has come to symbolise the many allegations of corruption that, proven or not, hover around his administration.

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Gone are the days when shop assistants might hover over a customer's shoulder to check that expensive volumes were not just being read and then put back on the shelf.

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To work around these problems, Dr Hover came up with the idea of using the data-point cloud not to spot mines, but as a guide to help the robot take a closer look at the hull.

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Regulators focus more often on the ratio of reserves to total loans (most banks hover below 2%), yet this does not take into account the risks that companies are shouldering, says John W. McCune, director of research for SNL's Financial Institutions Group.

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