Citigroup's new CEO proposed more-rigorous ways to track the performance of individual executives and the bank as a whole.
The argument that providing grants to clean energy projects already under construction when the stimulus program began is some kind of boondoggle misses the point at both the level of an individual project, and the clean energy sector as a whole.
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It is for the books of early instruction, in a great degree, to lay the foundation on which the whole superstructure of individual and national greatness must be erected.
But the risk is to overstate the threat and focus on the whole rather than the individual parts.
But as the government says, the Social Exclusion Unit is not just about fighting social ills, it is also about creating better services for the individual and the community as a whole.
"One of the fundamental questions that neuroscientists are facing today is how we link the activity of individual neurons to the complex behaviours that we see in whole organisms and whole animals, " said Dr Ben Whalley, a neuroscientist at Reading.
At this level, the group can be viewed as a superorganism, with each individual being a sensory and motor organ of the whole, contributing to the well being of the group and sharing vicariously in its collective experience.
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Serving our community members this way, not only helps to fulfill the "American Dream" of individual families, but also protects community assets and the American economy as a whole.
While the average effect on each baby is small and so should not alarm individual prospective parents, for the whole population these small risks add up across millions of people.
But I think there are some important lessons to learn and not least the fact that what people can't do is alight on an individual case and use that really to damn the whole of the National Health Service and actually more importantly I think, the doctors and nurses, the other people who provide the treatment and care in the National Health Service.
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Schultz, after analyzing each of the individual securities, would sell virtually the whole taxable account (except for Sara Lee) and reconstitute the overall equity portfolio to only 10% growth.
What these studies highlight is a worthy objective which should galvanize efforts to devise, test, and implement strategies at the individual, neighborhood, and societal levels to improve health and longevity for society as a whole.
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"It is open to the individual state, to make statutory provision for the imposition of a whole life minimum term, and in an appropriate case, as a matter of judicial discretion, for the court to make such an order, " he said.
He and his co-founders reasoned that people work more efficiently when freed of doubts about salary, and better understand their individual contribution to the whole group.
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Urge countries to do as we did with our savings-and- loan debacle: Set up government entities to take over bad loans from the stricken banking system, and make individual depositors whole.
That is what the whole concept of unalienable individual rights means, and sumptuary laws, especially in the form of prohibition, were something they continually warned about.
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"This is where the individual or whole family is based in military accommodation and they buy or rent another home in Wales, usually in readiness for retirement but it may equally be for the purposes of holidays etc, " a spokesperson said.
To beat the market is hard for an individual and impossible for investors as a whole.
Leigh Caldwell points out that anyone in the bottom 20% has more wealth than the bottom 20% combined, since they all have negative wealth, and no individual negative number in a group can be less than the sum of a whole group of negative numbers.
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So as you can presumably now see, a full-scale eurozone financial crisis can't be averted by any individual initiative but requires a whole package of remedial measures, of which strengthening the banks and enlarging the bailout fund are the two most crucial.
The application of market prices (or "marks") in this way would generate notional losses for banks, and it would then be possible to assess whether individual banks have enough capital to withstand the damage that could arise if the worst happened and a whole series of eurozone countries were to default.
Such moves open up plethora of options, such as the choice of venue for capital-raising, notably whetherat home or overseas, and where overseas, or the choice between separate listing of individual affiliates versus the corporation as a whole.
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In a mutually reciprocal system, as each individual cares for the best beneficial good of others and for humanity and the planet that we share as a whole, it turns out that this system of mutual reciprocity, in fact, will logically and practically take care of each individual, as well.
As Mr Borio at the Bank for International Settlements points out, many of the ideas around countercyclicality (setting aside more capital in good times) and macroprudential regulation (safeguarding the stability of the whole banking system as well as of individual banks) were oven-ready, having been worked on by a coterie of central bankers, academics and regulators for a number of years.
Moody's goes a bit further, reasoning that governments can and will rescue an individual bank, even if they lack sufficient resources to bail out the whole system in a crisis.
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They knew a drug called XR9576 could block P-glycoprotein and sensitise individual cancer cells to chemotherapy, but they did not know if the drug would be successful against whole tumours, which can be very difficult to treat.
They looked at cancer rates for the EU as a whole (27 member states as at 2007) and also in six individual countries - France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK - for all cancers, and, individually, for stomach, intestine, pancreas, lung, prostate, breast, uterus (including cervix) and leukaemias.
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And it's only matter of time before sports marketers see her in a whole new light, as both an individual endorser and for what she can bring to the sport of auto racing.
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