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... informed of the progress of the New York market situation during the day and was in frequent touch with the New York Federal Reserve Bank; while officials of leading banks in NewYork were ... National City Bank. Albert H. Wiggin, chairman of the Chase National Bank. William C. Potter, president of the Guaranty Trust Company. Seward Prosser, chairman of the Bank-Trust Company. George ... the exchange of securities on the NewYork Stock Exchange, the Curb Market and over the counter were broken. They did a good job of cleaning up the mass of detail, and when the bell clangs at...
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... France, site of a NATO meeting, protesters are planning an “international resistance camp” with antiwar actions designed to press Mr. Obama to get American troops out of Afghanistan. In Istanbul, ... But there are already twice as many American troops as NATO troops in Afghanistan, and “Europe will never be able to match the numbers of the Americans in Afghanistan,” Mr. de Hoop Scheffer said. ... rethinking of the American way as a model for the rest of the world. Yet even as his presence stirs opposition to particular American policies, Mr. Obama is being welcomed by many Europeans as an embodiment...
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... 2014|19INTERNATIONAL NEWYORK TIMES finance markets businessa spokesman for the bank.But Alberto Melloni, ahistorian of theVatican, said the latest changessignaled a further diminution of thebank, which ... wasonce the center ofan ancient Celtic trad-ing empire and —equidistant amongEngland, Ireland, Scotland and Wales —it offersan unexpectedly fitting settingfor a symbol of a national craft ... 2014|11INTERNATIONAL NEWYORK TIMES RALPHLAURENCOLLECTION.COMNEWYORKMILAN LONDON PARISCANNESMUNICH ISTANBUL MOSCOW DUBAI TUESDAY,FEBRUARY 25, 2014|13INTERNATIONAL NEWYORK TIMES where she and her...
... between anarchy and MAD is one of specificity of ends. Anarchy is (for want of a better word) a circumstance. It de-scribes a situation, but not a goal. An anarchy in which all of theparticipants ... CONSTRUCTIONAND THE LOGIC OF MONEYFINANCIAL PREDOMINANCE ANDINTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LEADERSHIPJ. Samuel BarkinState University ofNewYork Press 28 Social Construction and the Logic of MoneyThe ... logic of financial predominance and state economic and monetaryleadership behavior. There is also another route through which financialpredominance may affect the propensity for a state’s understanding...
... con-ceding an item of knowledge, one automatically claims it for oneself as well. To12 Knowledge and Its Problems an adequate standard of knowledge can never be secured. One of the prime aims of the ... subject to an acceptance thereof as correct and authentic,and externally and detachedly, viewed from an “epistemic distance” without thecommitment of actual acceptance, and seen as merely representing ... Principle:10 Knowledge and Its Problems suggestions of Bertrand Russell by offering two sorts of counterexamples againstthis view of knowledge as consisting of beliefs that are both true and justified.Counterexample...
... the first book of Dante’s Divine Comedy, one of the great works of the human imagination. ere’s so much to learn from it about human weakness and folly. e faculty in your Italian department ... temptations of Satan in the desert in favor of freedom, but he believes that Jesus has misjudged human nature. e Inquisitor says that the vast majority of humanity cannot handle freedom. ... many wonders - if only you had an Italian department, which now, of course, you don’t.And do you really think even those faculty and adminis-trators who may applaud your tough-minded stance...