With U.S. forces no longer present, the likelihood of damage by terrorists or similar catastrophes that could put the Canal outofcommission is increased.
If the weather, mechanical troubles or other mishaps put an aircraft outofcommission, the firm often has roughly a dozen "hot" planes in different locales that are ready to take up the mantle.
Those who are very aggressive traders have been long and short in the financials for months to the point that the Securities and Exchange Commissionputout a list of companies that could not be shorted.
It said anyone who proposed to put forward procedural arguments in favour of further delaying the inquiry must set them out in writing to reach the commission by 24 August.
The point is that the UK banks' downgrade is an inevitable consequence of government policy to reduce the likelihood that they would be bailed out in a crisis - of which the most conspicuous manifestation has been the Vickers' commission recommendations to put retail banks behind a ring fence and make creditors to banks explicitly liable to losses.