Northern Rock's strategy was at all time transparent to the market and to the regulator.
"Flooding, snow, high winds, avalanche risk, slips and rock falls can all occur at any time of the year, " says Christine Officer, program manager at the DOC office in Te Anau (a two-hour bus ride from Queenstown), which manages the Milford Track.
It's ironic that Anschutz is in the rock 'n' roll business at all.
"After what's happened with Northern Rock, consumer confidence is at an all-time low, " said Martin Lewis, from consumer website Moneysavingexpert.com.
"You look at the top of the rock chart, and you see all kinds of bands who have had Top 40 radio hits, from Staind and Foo Fighters and Blink-182, " he said.
In 2008, some of the world's banks - which had invested in risky financial products - collapsed, including Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Northern Rock in the UK. All were bailed out by the taxpayer at some point.
Add some shredding rock guitar riffs and then you have me running off at the mouth over the top of all that.
Grohl held an all-star, three-hour-plus show with those rock icons, who performed at the Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Calif.
As with all other issues of this nature, at least in my view, the issue of "rock star" compensation and the like needs to be considered in a nuanced way, taking into account each company's particular circumstances, and approached with a presumption that boards of directors in fact try hard to do the right thing.
Very similar to the famous Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, the six-wheeled bot created by a team at Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute is capable of cruising around the Moon at a reported 100 meters per hour, all the while snapping photos and collecting bits of moon rock for analysis and possible sale on eBay.
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With engineering legend Bob Weston at the controls, the band was back rattling rock's cages, but its classic sound wasn't all there.
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