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Echoing their earlier comments to the Board's Exposure Draft, Accounting for Property, Plant, and Equipment, some respondents expressed concern that expensing rather than capitalizing costs associated with stewardship PP&E would lessen the value of the operating statement as a tool for performance measurement since it would overstate the cost in the year an asset is acquired.
The WP reports that House Republicans have extracted something in return for infusion of fresh U.S. billions into IMF coffers: 1) a promise by major IMF contributors to push the agency to require above-market rates and reasonably short repayment periods for its loans (to lessen high-risk borrowing in aided countries); 2) a requirement that the IMF release written summaries of its board meetings and other major documents within three months.
Besides feeding Fayed's general feeling (not entirely unjustified) that the British establishment is out to get him, Rees-Jones' memories might lessen the liability of the Fayed-owned Ritz hotel, which provided the inebriated driver.
That would also lessen any guilt you might have.
This allows for sufficient numbers of transfected cells and appears to lessen the PEI burden per neuron, yet does not preclude detailed morphological analyses of individual neurons.