Put differently, megabanking creates systemic risks so big in scope and scale that the only rational policy response is to respond with regulations that actually strengthen the characteristics of the system, intensifying the risk.
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The authors discuss some important characteristics of the Swedish system that may contribute to the success.
The new BlackBerry 10 operating system has a lot of unique characteristics including a very different way of getting around and launching apps.
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Spectrum comes in different shapes and sizes (well, different frequencies and bandwidths, to be precise) and a machine system needs spectrum with very particular characteristics.
Freedom of assembly and freedom of expression are also characteristics of a modern political system that supports economic modernization.
They therefore programmed their system to look at a great many other characteristics, including body posture, direction of gaze and even the specific words that were being spoken.
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It analyzed the largest bank holding companies in terms of total assets according to the National Information Center, a repository of financial data and institution characteristics collected by the Federal Reserve System.
We only assessed the 20 largest bank holding companies in terms of total assets, as of December 2012, according to the National Information Center, a repository of financial data and institution characteristics collected by the Federal Reserve System.
If the system were placed on an intergovernmental footing, such characteristics could well be jeopardised.
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Administrators can use "nerd knobs" in the product's management system to control what may be searched, and shape results around characteristics such as when or literally where, geographically speaking, a document was created.
These fingerprints look deep into the characteristics of the machine, logging such things as the time zone, keyboard language, operating-system version and other key identifiers.
Biometric identification, which works by using the unique characteristics of your body to prove who you are, may be the key to a much more effective system.
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