assets that are backed by failing mortgages and other trouble loans

13:40 Jan 29, 2009 

D. Floriana.
Você está confundido alhos com bugalhos.
Bem é uma coisa; bens, outra:
"Bem= m aquilo q. é bom ou conforme à moral. Virtude; felicidade;utilidade; benefício.Pessoa namorada; derriço: és o meu bem. Pl.Propriedade, domínio: herdar os bens de um parente. Adv. Muito, convenientemente, com afeição:tratar bem. Com saúde:tem passado bem. Interj. Sim; apoiado;excelentemente. (L. bene).
Novo Dic. da Língua Portuguesa, Cândido de Figueiredo, 4ª. ed., Lisboa, Artthur Brandão Sociedade Editora, 1911.
Não confunda 'Seu Carvalho, meu bem.' com 'Meu Caro Horácio, meu bem"...

13:27 Jan 29, 2009 

digo, to bury...

13:25 Jan 29, 2009 

Veja o verbete no Shorter Oxford Dic., H.W. Fowler & J. Coulson, revised & edited by C.T.Onions, w. etymologies by G.W.S. Friedrichsen, 3ª ed., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973.
Assets. 1531.
"All the property of a person or company which may be made liable for his or their debts.(In this sense used as pl.):"He left no assets enough tom bury him."

12:52 Jan 29, 2009 

according to the following, assets can be bens:
asset
s. posse, bem, propriedade; qualidade, vantagem, algo benéfico (babylon)
(wikipedia-português)
Conceito de Ativo Fixo e espécies
Conceito empregado em contabilidade para definir dentro de uma determinada empresa, quais são os bens e direitos desta empresa que não sofrem movimentação constante. Fazem parte do patrimônio desta empresa, chamados Bens Patrimoniais.

12:44 Jan 29, 2009 

1. A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or resource: proved herself an asset (ele revelou-se um 'BEM' para a firma [sic]) to the company.
2. A valuable item that is owned.
3. A spy working in his or her own country and controlled by the enemy.
4. assets ("ASSETS that are backed by failing mortgages and other trouble loans")from ST.
a. Accounting The entries on a balance sheet showing all properties, both tangible and intangible, and claims against others that may be applied to cover the liabilities of a person or business. Assets can include cash, stock, inventories, property rights, and goodwill.
b. The entire property owned by a person, especially a bankrupt, that can be used to settle debts

12:43 Jan 29, 2009 

n.

Something that is good.
A good, valuable, or useful part or aspect.
Welfare; benefit: for the common good.
Goodness; virtue: There is much good to be found in people.
goods
Commodities; wares: frozen goods.
Portable personal property.
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Fabric; material.
goods Slang. Incriminating information or evidence: tried to get the goods on the crook

10:14 Jan 29, 2009 

A plurale tantum (plural: pluralia tantum) is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant, though it may still refer to one or many of the objects it names. Many languages have pluralia tantum, such as the English words "scissors" and "pants", or the Swedish word inälvor, "intestines".

The term for a noun which appears only in the singular form is singulare tantum (plural: singularia tantum), for example the English words "dust" and "wealth". Singulare tantum is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as: "Gram. A word having only a singular form; esp. a non-count noun."[1] In the English language, such words are almost always uncountable nouns.

In English, quantifying a plurale tantum noun requires a measure word, for example one pair of scissors instead of *one scissors. In other languages, special numeral forms are used in such cases. In Polish, for example, "one pair of eyeglasses" is expressed as either jedne okulary (one-plur. glasses-plur.) or jedna para okularów (one-sing. pair-sing. glasses-gen. plur.). For larger quantities, "collective numeral" forms are available: troje drzwi (three doors), pięcioro skrzypiec (five violins). Compare these to the ordinary numeral forms found in trzy filmy / pięć filmów (three films / five films).[2]