Sentences with phrase «result of a meltdown»

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«The meltdown of our global financial system was a direct result of inadequate checks and balances,» says Adam Lowry, co-founder and chief global sustainability officer of Method, which makes chemical - free household products.

As a result of the experience, Intel CEO Krzanich set up a new group, dubbed the IPAS or Intel Product Assurance and Security, to not only work on the Spectre and Meltdown fixes but to address future security problems more effectively.

The absence of proper consumer protection was a major contributing factor to the present financial meltdown, for «it has now become clear that abrogating sound state laws, particularly regarding consumer protection, created opportunity for regulatory arbitrage that resulted in a regulatory «race - to - the - bottom.

The once - powerful institution — in 2007 it was the fifth largest U.S. bank, with $ 400 billion in assets — was among the earliest warning signs of a broad economic meltdown that would ultimately result in the stock market losing nearly half its value.

Today investors are asking themselves a similar question: «Is the meltdown in the stock market the result of Fed tapering, or is there something else going on?»

The effects of the spill are far from over: The oysters and shrimp have not come back, and many fishing families have suffered financial meltdown as a result.

The immediate aftermath of the Maine Road meltdown wasn't that bad, with back - to - back victories recorded over Bournemouth and Leicester but as proceedings wore on, the poor results continued to pile up — the club conceded 4 goals on three more occasions — at Swindon, Hull and eventual Champions Millwall, the earlier victory over the Lions one of those oddities that any given season will throw up.

«Prisons have gone into meltdown in the last year and it is a direct result of government policy.

For most New Yorkers however, this is just the latest chapter in a seemingly futile battle between the governor and the mayor, which hasn't really resulted in any significant improvements to the subway since its epic meltdown in 2017, and the introduction of the $ 836M action plan to fix its crumbling infrastructure.

The biggest chunk, $ 118.35 billion, was a result of the subprime home lending meltdown.

As some claimed the result placed Labour on track for electoral meltdown, the general secretary of a trade union that has backed Corbyn in two leadership elections issued a stark warning.

While it is clear that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown was a consequence of an earthquake and tsunami, like all disasters, it was also the result of political, economic and social choices that created or exacerbated broad - scale risks.

Some recent papers have argued that such meltdowns could happen by the end of this century, if not in the next few decades, as a result of the greenhouse gases piling up in the atmosphere.

DeMeo's results were so successful that his nine - pound suits — which look a bit like Halloween - costume versions of space suits but are roomy enough to fit over my bulletproof vest and gas protector — have become the outfit of choice for workers helping clean up the post-tsunami Fukushima reactor - meltdown site in Japan.

Despite fresh worries about a new meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi complex in Japan, the steam that set off this concern is merely a result of atmospheric conditions — and a reactor that is still hot from having melted down in 2011.

A subsequent review of the entire power plant by the NRC in the wake of the near - miss revealed that its emergency cooling system — a critical line of defense in the event of a meltdown — might have failed due to clogging resulting from «generic» flaws built into the plant prior to 1977.

It is safer because while mechanical items can fail under catastrophic conditions, such as a loss of all electrical power onsite, PRISM is not dependant on these for a safe shutdown, so even a catastrophic situation will not result in a reactor meltdown.

Meltdowns are the result of bottled - up stress exploding, and are not done on guys with aspergers and dating.

In this animated sequel, Manny (voiced of Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo), and Diego (Denis Leary) are tickled pink when sunny weather begins to Meltdown the Ice Age — until the resulting flood waters come and the prehistoric animals realize they're in over their heads.

«But immediately after the launch, Lehman Brothers collapsed (prompting a global financial meltdown), which resulted in that segment of the market shrinking dramatically.»

• Unlike in the U.S., underwriting standards for qualifying mortgage borrowers in Canada have been maintained at prudent levels resulting in mortgage borrowers here being much more creditworthy; • Canadian mortgage lenders never offered low initial «teaser» rate mortgages that led to most of the difficulties for mortgage borrowers in the U.S.; • Most mortgages in Canada are held by their original lender, not packaged and sold to third parties as is typical in the U.S., and consequently, Canadian mortgage lenders have a vested interest in ensuring that their mortgage borrowers are creditworthy and not likely to default; • Only 0.3 % of Canadian mortgages are in arrears versus 4.5 % in the U.S. and what even before the start of the U.S. housing meltdown two years ago was 2 %; • Canadians tend to pay down their mortgage faster than in the U.S. where mortgage interest is deductible from taxes, which encourages U.S. homeowners to take equity out of their homes to finance other spending, a difference that is reflected in the fact that in Canada mortgage debt accounts for just over 30 % of the value of homes, compared with 55 % in the U.S.

This resulted in a market meltdown that caused substantial drawdowns in value for many equity mutual funds, in a range of forty to sixty per cent, causing many small investors to panic and suffer a permanent loss of capital which many of them could not afford nor replace.

Countless people lost everything as a result of the banking and real estate meltdown.

With the meltdown of the real estate market in the US as a result of poor lending practices, the «powers that be» in Canada, namely our Finance Minister, quickly needed to rein in the lending criteria for Canadian lenders.

Even in 2007, some Arctic climate and ice specialists were warning that the ice retreat was «as much a result of ice moving as melting,» adding that the unpredicted changes could just as easily betray weaknesses in climate models as hints of some accelerating meltdown.

The result could be a reprieve, at least for a while, from the recent stretch of remarkable summer meltdowns.

This is shown in economics by the potential for small initial shocks — a few hundred billions in toxic debt for instance — to cause a global economic meltdown as a result of collective emergent behaviour.

Ever since a catastrophic earthquake hit Fukushima in March 2011, resulting in the meltdown of three nuclear reactors and the release of radioactive material into the surrounding environment, this rural northeastern region of Japan has never recovered.

I have little doubt that I will soon see the Denialosphere claiming that the meltdown is a result of a lack of sunspots.

Difficult afternoons, tough bed times, siblings squabbles, meltdowns and homework refusal can all happen as a result of after school overwhelm.

In fact, you may have already experienced multiple meltdowns in your marriage as a result of your emotional bottling.

Condo Loans Reacting to losses sustained during the wave of foreclosures resulting from the subprime mortgage market meltdown, FHA — along with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (also known as government - sponsored entities, or GSEs)-- tightened lending standards for condo loans across the board.

And if the results are accurate, our survey may indicate that current investigations into the cause of the mortgage meltdown are misplaced or incomplete.

The results of that survey were extremely valuable in identifying possible causes of the mortgage meltdown that have previously not been considered.

CFPB director Richard Cordray sees the creation of national servicing standards as a direct result of the housing meltdown, which led to obscene foreclosure levels and a dramatic increase in processing issues.