nbyward
Registered on: 06/01/2008
Questions: 0
Answers: 30
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All answers by nbyward
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why did Lehman Brother got bankrupt (closed)
6 hours after the question was posted (11/22/2008 05:44pm)
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nbyward: Lehmans collapsed because an idiotic target-driven culture led their employees to lend to people who were poor credit risks,take on credit-default swaps, and falsify loan forms. The immediate ... Show -
3 days after the question was posted (11/03/2008 08:12am)
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nbyward: Sorry to be late on this...I've been away in an Islamic state where aborting a male foetus is a criminal offence, and doing the same to a female foetus is accepted as normal. So on the whole, I think ... Show -
14 hours after the question was posted (09/27/2008 11:18pm)
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nbyward: Retaining anger. I'd replace it with assertive tolerance. I'd make the change because my anger is unattractive and pointless. It's also very difficult to remove. I've readlots of anger management ... Show -
Hereditary monarch or elected president? (closed)
25 hours after the question was posted (09/20/2008 06:13pm)
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nbyward: A hereditary Monarchy answerable to the sovereign power of Parliament - but allowed a small number of seats in a Second Chamber. Reasons as follows: 1. The Windsors for all their faults are ... Show -
What's more important : country or family? (closed)
5 hours after the question was posted (09/20/2008 05:56pm)
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nbyward: I always hate to answer 'it depends', but it does. As I don't believe in My Country Right or Wrong, I wouldn't always put family before country. If I felt my country needed me and was defending the ... Show -
What are the Custom in The United Kindom? (closed)
7 days after the question was posted (09/19/2008 06:06pm)
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nbyward: Disobeying the law for good, bad and silly reasons; obeying the law for reasons mostly to do with idleness; and otherwise, hard to improve on what lordhagakure had to say Show -
3 days after the question was posted (09/08/2008 10:58am)
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nbyward: Africa as a whole challenges all our liberal ideas. These are murky waters, but knowing myself NOT to be a Nazi, I will proceed anyway. As with Arabs, there is no tradition whatsoever of democracy ... Show -
What makes a good political leader? (closed)
3 days after the question was posted (09/08/2008 10:34am)
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nbyward: In the 1930s, political psychoanalyst Harold Lasswell came to the conclusion that no politician who ran for office should be allowed to take up office. Catch 22 - if you want to be a politician you ... Show -
Why Sarah Palin? (closed)
44 hours after the question was posted (09/08/2008 10:25am)
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nbyward: I think he probably met her on the internet,band was taken with her blog, 'Pro-life, except for anything in my sights'. On the whole,I think your own instincts are entirely correct. The question ... Show -
Will it fly? (closed)
3 days after the question was posted (09/01/2008 02:13pm)
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nbyward: I'd have preferred Michael Palin, but he's not American. The decision shows that EVEN slightly quirky candidates in US politics these days take cynical and entirely inappropriate decisions. ... Show
