It is true that Finland has the most to lose from a pooling of sovereign debts.
The EU watchdogs also objected to Google's current pooling of our data in a single personalized record.
CNN: Why life through Google Glass should be for our eyes only
The court also ruled that the German parliament could not approve a deal that leads to a pooling of national debt.
The Conference proposed a number of strategies including training and pooling of resources by media houses to cover complex and time-consuming stories.
They reckon that closures of some hospitals, with a consequent pooling of scarce resources, would enable those left to provide better care.
The pooling of foreign-exchange reserves are contingency measures aimed at containing crises such as the one roiling the eurozone, analysts told the paper.
They are smarting at having been shut out of the Contact Group, and will be the surest net gainers from a pooling of international clout.
So Germany is being urged to stand behind the euro by accepting the pooling of sovereign debt and collective action to shore up the banking system.
That, in turn, implies considerable pooling of taxation and spending policies as well as borrowing, to a far greater extent than many had previously recognised across the 17 members.
We started investing in cloud technology about six years ago with the advent of virtualization, which enabled the pooling of machines so you can aggregate larger chunks of compute power.
She has been harangued by world leaders, attacked in print and lampooned on magazine covers for saying "nein" to the pooling of euro-zone debt while focusing instead on long-term reforms.
One EU complaint about current Google practice, you'll remember, was about the absence of an opt out button to enable users to say no to Google's pooling of their data.
CNN: Why life through Google Glass should be for our eyes only
First, the pooling of public debt in the 17 member states would raise the interest rates paid by the most creditworthy while lowering them in countries with weaker fiscal positions.
ECONOMIST: Eurobonds could restore confidence, but at a cost
Rather than distributing risks, there was a pooling of risk in the largest financial institutions that made them very vulnerable and, because of their complex interconnections, very dangerous to the whole financial system.
An agreement in principle has been reached for eurozone banks to be policed by the ECB and - ultimately - supported and quarantined in the event of crisis through the pooling of "resolution" or rescue resources.
The other side of banking union is the pooling of national resources to rescue any bank, anywhere in the eurozone, that is close to collapse (or to close down the relevant bank if that seems the better option).
All this is especially troubling, because financial firms will be keen to get into businesses from which they were previously excluded and quickly, because an accounting trick known as pooling of interest, which flatters the profits of the merged entity, will be scrapped at the end of next year.
The necessary steps would also involve full "mutualisation" of eurozone sovereign debt, the pooling of sovereign liabilities, which would permit the European Central Bank to be the lender of last resort to the currency union - and give the eurozone the kind of protection against the risk of default that the UK and the US have.
All of this would involve a greater "pooling" of sovereignty in Europe.
My hope, of course, is not only to increase public awareness on these core issues, but also to emphasize the importance of pooling the skills and knowledge of all parties.
But everybody knows that pooling-of-interest accounting, which tends to inflate reported earnings after a merger, helped encourage the conglomerate craze of the late Sixties, and that changing those rules made conglomeration much less attractive.
FORBES: Why Everybody's Jumping On The Accountants These Days
So they end up pooling groups of people by such basic factors as age, occupation and postcode, which means that some low-risk customers are lumped in with risky ones and subsidise their cover.
The technique of pooling disparate clinical trials, called meta-analysis, has become the most powerful weapon of drug safety researchers.
On the other side of the Atlantic, though, the idea of pooling intelligence Europe-wide never got very far.
Instead of pooling their resources, the two have often worked at crossed purposes.
The group is thinking of pooling municipal services such as water and waste disposal, and even setting up a joint holding company.
That's according to a meta-analysis published in June in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation: Heart Failure, based on pooling the results of five studies.
应用推荐