Secretary Duncan today will publish an open letter to college and university presidents, asking them to adopt the Shopping Sheet as part of their financial aid awards starting in the 2013-14 school year.
This means that we can expect more than the one-meter sea level rise projected for 2100, a fact that the rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet, as well as strong indications that the western part of the Antarctic ice sheet is also melting, strongly support.
They might be instructed to draw a ladder on a certain part of the sheet, or a chimney, or a bridge.
So far as possible, we should see whether we can liberate this part of their balance sheet in these stressed times.
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The Treasury is expected to soften the blow by requiring the big banks to raise capital to support only that part of their balance sheet that British tax payers would have to support in a crisis.
Each one is knitting a message or epitaph to their loved one the size of an A4 sheet of page which will form part of an enormous scarf which, it is hoped, will reach a kilometre in length.
This retail sub-sector has rebounded in part due to strong balance sheet management and inventory controls by the large retailers.
Not since the 1960s has cash made up as large a part of the corporate balance sheet as it does today.
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It may be a small part of RBS's vast balance sheet, but it's another test of whether this emerging Asian giant is willing to pay the price of globalisation while its outward-looking businesses are reaping the rewards.
If Republicans get a chance to rewrite health care reform on a fresh sheet of paper, whatever they do will likely be part of a broader effort to do the same thing to the tax code.
As part of the minority sale, per the term sheet, investors will not be required to make any capital contributions for the 6 years (in other words, no cash calls).
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Part of the blame goes to off-balance-sheet equipment leases that EDS has handed off to banks.
"I've been part of the process of sitting down with a clean sheet of paper and conceptualizing a new TV show, building out the extensions and Web versions and then selling ad buys around it, " he says.
The other part is the great attraction to banks of getting these loans off their balance sheet.
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Part of the reason is that a strong capital base and a liquid balance sheet--HSBC has one of the strongest Tier 1 ratios out of the big banks--is something the company has never parted from, Green says.
That suggests France is perilously perched on the cusp between being part of the solution to the eurozone's financial woes and becoming an intractable part of the problem: neurotic investors fear that the French government's balance sheet and French banks may not be strong enough to underwrite the size of bailouts that could turn out to be necessary for Italy and Spain.
Once ice is discharged from a grounded ice sheet into the ocean, it has an immediate impact on sea level, even though it remains part of the cryosphere until it subsequently melts.
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