Indeed, even the failure of AIG would have been catastrophic — so you can't even limit the list of systemically important firms to Banks.

实际上，仅仅是AIG(友邦保险)的破产也会是灾难性的，所以你不能仅把银行归纳成系统性重要的公司。

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Instead of falling into a pattern of taking risks and regularly pushing themselves just beyond their limit, they develop a terrible fear of new challenges and of any sort of flaw or failure.

不愿意冒险和尝试超越极限，他们对新的挑战和任何缺陷或失败产生出一种严重的恐惧。

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Mr Caruana said there had been a "collective failure to appreciate the extent of leverage in the financial system" and that balance sheet strains could limit Banks' capacity to lend.

卡如纳表示，“在评估金融系统的杠杆程度方面存在集体失误”，而资产负债表压力可能限制各银行的放贷能力。

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An advisory committee on Friday recommended that the first such drug, Pargluva from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck, should be approved by the FDA. Analysts at Prudential and Deutsche Bank predict the side effects of the medicine, including an increase in heart failure, may limit sales.

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Following the collapse of a third of all American banks in 1930-33, the government set up an insurance scheme under which it guaranteed to repay depositors, up to a certain limit, in the event of bank failure.

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Issuers and bond underwriters, as well as many bondholders want to limit the calling of a default to a failure to make interest or principal payments to bondholders when they are due.

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