Unlike the opaque Lehman, MF Global fully disclosed the trades and their accounting treatment including the off-balance sheet effect.

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These, in effect, mark balance sheet assets and liabilities to market values.

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"We do see these big variations in the temperature in the mantle across parts of Antarctica that will have a big effect on the ice sheet, " Wiens said.

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The salutary effect on the Government's balance sheet will be the same, but it will appear on the other side of the balance sheet.

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The exact size and placement of the holes on each sheet, and the spacing between the sheets, has a predictable effect on incoming sound waves.

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Germany must in effect be willing to put all of the distressed euro zone economies on its balance sheet and pay to keep them afloat.

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