Much less certain subprime cash flows from borrowers often with very poor credit were apparently an easy mountain for Wall Street to scale.
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It offers both a bold street presence and pleasing scale, but is intentionally pulled back from the street for privacy.
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As a result another crash on the same scale as Wall Street is unlikely to happen, unless a bank breaks the rules.
But in this postwar environment, when kids became the center of our lives, Disneyland was the perfect vacation because it was built around the child, the child's needs, actually even the child's scale because Main Street was scaled down to about 80 percent of normal height.
But what it gave us, with its short, 200-foot block lengths and small, 20- to 25-foot lot sizes, its direct and easy navigability, is a walkable, personal city at human scale, where every street is an endlessly varied and inviting series of visual experiences, of constantly changing shopfronts, restaurants and buildings of infinite styles and uses.
In 1994, Zagar started a large-scale installation in one of South Street's vacant lots.
Dean Zarras has been writing software since 1982, focusing on large-scale trading and risk management systems on and off Wall Street.
This is the UK's largest permanent street art project and the biggest urban arts festival in Europe, attracting the world's leading urban artists to converge and create a series of temporary and permanent street art installations and sculpture, including some of the world's largest scale outdoor paintings.
Then we have a company called Shahmoon TV whose Street Ads use large HD video posters to bring big-screen advertising to small scale stores, enabling businesses to interact with passers-by, feed live information, and communicate directly with those consumers.
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For those who believe excessive risk-taking on Wall Street was at the heart of the global financial crisis, sweeping reform on a scale not seen in 80 years was the necessary remedy to insure that a similar financial meltdown does not occur any time soon.
With the paperwork expected to follow as much as days later, there is the potential for a breakdown approaching the scale of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund debacle, which all but crushed Wall Street in 1998.
"Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this programme will help improve assets values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets, " US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote in the Wall Street Journal before the programme was officially announced.
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