Unlike the opaque Lehman, MF Global fully disclosed the trades and their accounting treatment including the off-balance sheet effect.
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The electricity tariff cut lowered the index by 0.45%, so if one takes away the one-off effect of this cut, and maintaining all other items the same, the price index would have reached 1.13% higher month over month, or a whopping 14.44% annualized.
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Many of the most promising areas for exploration, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, are in effect off-limits to Western oil firms.
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Equally important, it is not clear how much of an effect a one-off rebate will have on consumption, or how quickly that effect will come through.
Mr Paisley, and the half of Mr Trimble's party that opposed the peace agreement, hoped that the marching stand-off would, in effect, force Tony Blair to renegotiate the peace deal.
Customers who don't want their thermostat on autopilot could change their habits, by keeping the thermostat higher some days and running the electricity-hogging clothes dryer when off-peak prices are in effect.
But, in effect, off-shore, outside of Iran, so that this would satisfy the concerns of others like the United States and the Europeans that Iran couldn't secretly use this process to create a stash of what's called fissile material for a nuclear weapon.
Hardware acceleration of both 2D and 3D UI elements -- shown off to great effect by Google's Hugo Barra, who managed to scroll through three lists simultaneously without inducing any lag on the Motorola Xoom -- should make Honeycomb as delicious to look at as it sounds, while our personal favorite, the new tablet-specific email interface, should be part of Gmail yesterday.
The bottom screen is 3 inches and is a touchscreen, like that of the Nintendo DS. A 3-D depth slider on the right side of the top screen lets you control how much 3-D effect is shown, from completely off to fairly deep 3-D.
"It's a source of marriage breakdown, of stress, of people being ill, being off work - the knock-on effect of people wrestling with unmanageable debt in their lives can be massive, " he says.
When we vote for one party or the other party, we collectively decide which direction the nation should be headed. 2010 was an off-year, but the aggregate effect of all the House races was to put in office a huge majority of Republicans who had signed the Americans for Tax Reform tax pledge.
Changes to child benefit payments for the better-off - introducing means-testing for the previously universal benefit - come into effect at midnight on 7 January.
Both early renewals and self-funded plans will have the effect of keeping more groups off the exchanges, thereby blunting the savings for high-risk policyholders.
It captures only the one-off gains, but looks at their effect on the world economy over a decade.
One is an immediate effect as surface run-off takes roughly 50% of the free nitrate straight into Thames tributaries and the main river.
It said people were abandoning them because they could not afford to keep them, their status effect had worn off and over-breeding had lessened their financial value.
Under the law, the trade-off between work and leisure is, in effect, made by the French state, with unexpected results.
Additional spin-off companies may result, creating a multiplier effect.
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That incident marked Aberdeen's seventh sending-off already this season, but it had the effect of jolting the game back to life and Langfield was tested by both Craig Conway and Jon Daly.
They created illusions of armies and battleships and masked the Suez Canal to such effect that confused Nazi bombers dropped their payloads off-target.
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In effect these types of measures represent on-off negative supply shocks on inflation, taking it lower, says Tony Volpon, managing director at Nomura Securities in New York.
His driving style was not suited to the off-throttle blown diffuser, which Vettel used to such devastating effect en route to 11 wins in a truly dominant season.
Rimonabant is seen as having potential not only because it takes off pounds, but also because of its effect on cholesterol--it cuts the bad kind and increases the good.
Meanwhile, Banco Delta Asia has hired a law firm to persuade the Americans to remove it from their money-laundering blacklist, which in effect cuts it off from the international banking system.
RFF's books, in effect writing off the infrastructure investment of building the high-speed network.
The cumulative effect of these cuts alone would be to write-off more than 18 million listeners each week around the world.
Viewing angles were actually pretty impressive -- at least in comparison to the other glasses-free 3D displays we've seen -- and tilting our head slightly didn't throw off the 3D effect too much.
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Since some of this debt is due for repayment next year, the Bank of England has a deadline for deciding whether to roll it over into a perpetual zero-interest debt - which would be seen as, in effect, writing off the debt.
As Katrina demonstrated, if the electricity goes off for any protracted period of time, there is a cascading ripple-effect which takes down the means by which we communicate, get food and water, access financial resources, receive medical services, dispose of sewage and move from one location to another.
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