The world's derivatives markets, with total contracts reported as high $130 trillion, are an accident waiting to happen, and here the exposure of Canadian banks amounts to trillions of dollars—Stewart suggests $5 trillion—with a credit equivalent about double their total shareholders' equity.

Stewart does suggest that the direct risk to the Canadian banks is double their total shareholders' exposure, and I like Ms. Bennett's analogy of the five-legged stool and the three-legged stool.

Certain subgroups of the population may exceed the TWI by about 2 fold.

Institutions that are dealers in these exposures may apply a different treatment where they can demonstrate to their competent authorities, in addition to trading intent, that a liquid two-way market exists for the securitisation exposures or, in the case of synthetic securitisations that rely solely on credit derivatives, for the securitisation exposures themselves or all their constituent risk components.

In an attempt to refute the idea that Greek is obscure and bears no relation to other Western languages, the Greek translators at the Commission and Council have organized an exhibition entitled "Alpha to omega: Greek script from its origins to the printing press", which will trace the ties between Greek script and other alphabets, particularly Latin, and show the beauty of Greek lettering as exemplified by Byzantine manuscripts. The exhibition, which is in honour of Greece's Presidency of the Council, is being held at the Centre de Conférence Albert Borschette rue Froissart 36 - 1040 Brussels from Thursday 26 May to Wednesday 15 June 19 ...[+++]94.

This Directive, which is the first amendment to outline Directive 80/1107 on the protection of workers against risks related to exposure to chemical, physical and biological agents at the workplace, uses a dual system in setting limit values: binding limit values will be imposed by the Council for the list of 11 products contained in Annex 1 to Directive 80/1107 (they have already have been established for three of them: lead, asbestos and benzene) and value limits will be recommended by the Commission to the Member States on all the ...[+++]other products regarded as dangerous.