After reciting a verse from the Qur'an, he reads something that sounds like a judgment, returns the sheet of paper to an interior pocket of his vest, and at the end of a brief meditation proposes that his listeners arm themselves with stones.
Largely absent in all of this discussion, but on the minds of many, is fixing the balance sheet of the households who are at the heart of the mortgage crisis.
An extended period of economic depression and fiscal austerity can trash the balance sheet of the healthiest bank.
But if the balance sheet of the UK is perceived to be so strong, how can the respective balance sheets of Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland be perceived by creditors to be so weak?
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.
As it turns out, it went back onto the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve.
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On that basis, the balance sheet of the UK public-sector looks considerably stronger than Italy's but weaker than Spain's.
There is also a chart on the second sheet of the calculator which displays this calculation graphically in green (example to the left).
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That collectively weakened the balance sheet of the U.S. corporate sector and was among the reasons the market collapse hit the economy so hard.
Germany was said to be more comfortable with this idea, since it didn't involve any central bank financing governments directly, and it would formally keep the credit risk off the balance sheet of the ECB.
" Correct answer: "The balance sheet of Ford Motor Credit has deteriorated to the point where it is at constant risk of being pushed out of the commercial paper market.
The sovereign debt crisis there is hurting the balance sheet of European banks, with the market wondering if Europe is now facing its own 2008.
Some of it ended up on the balance sheet of corporate America.
Standing silently but amiably to one side, he would unbolt the magic boxes, hold the ropes, demonstrate the emptiness of beakers and pots, confirm the thickness of a sheet of glass before a near-naked girl would climb into a magic box and pass straight through it!
Stephen Worthington of Barbary Coast Capital Management sees trouble brewing on the balance sheet of PacifiCare Health Systems.
The lake's location in the heart of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet makes it one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet.
They cite the sharp increase in the size of the Fed's balance sheet and the recent expansion of bank reserves and money measures as prima facie evidence of looming inflation.
Among the most striking of the architectural drawings on display is the study for the plan of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini (1559-60), a sheet in which one can read the layers of overdrawing and erasure through which Michelangelo refined his design, transforming the sheet into a palimpsest of rejected ideas.
The stylish design of the ZT60 Series is based on the concept of "one sheet of glass", which accentuates the superiority of the panel's picture quality and the unique pedestal structure with a thin metal plate gives the TV an elegant glass and metal aesthetics.
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The overwhelming percentage of his documents are signed with scribbles, sometimes just on the side of a sheet of paper.
In addition, the shrinking balance sheet of GE Capital on account of the sale of its commercial real estate holdings is expected to impact its results.
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So the bottom line is we have to get everybody on the same sheet of music, from senior civilian leadership, political appointees, line leadership and then the support.
He chose this because the supernova that created it blew a giant bubble, known as the Vela nebula, out of the surrounding interstellar medium, and that bubble is big enough to stand in for the infinite sheet of gas.
"You could say that a good use of the balance sheet and of company money would be in further acquisitions, " a BAT spokesman told Forbes.com.
But look at what happened to Argentina: it devalued and given the balance sheet effects of the depreciation on their US debts it was forced to pesify its dollar debts.
But if visionary Jeff Bezos can become so drunk with hubris over his rising share price that he engineers the balance sheet boner of the decade, then perhaps we all should pray for humility, as well as vision, as we race toward the new millennium.
These three sets of policy tools--lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying longer-term securities--have the common feature that each represents a use of the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet, that is, they all involve lending or the purchase of securities.
Mechanisms on the verge of being instigated include loss of Arctic sea ice, shrinkage of the Greenland ice sheet, loss of Antarctic ice shelves, and shrinkage of the Antarctic ice sheets.
This year Worthington sees trouble brewing on the balance sheet of PacifiCare Health Systems.
Getting everyone on Earth to play from the same sheet of music is pretty far-out.
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