the economist as portfolio manager
bonner & rajiva - mobs, messiahs and markets (2007)
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03/11/2014, 14:51
... were Hassan’s agents that witnesses thought they must be drugged with hashish Thus did they come to be known as the haschaschin, which evolved into the word we know, assassin The Crusaders saw the ... what the world improvers want is a globe as familiar as their own boudoirs If other people have other tastes and other ideas, well, they must be uneducated or evil Brooks claims, “It’s the ... saw the assassins not as a threat, but as an opportunity Like the Reagan administration in the twentieth century, the Franks of the twelfth century decided to make common cause with the assassins...
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Cambridge.University.Press.War.Land.on.the.Eastern.Front.Culture.National.Identity.and.German.Occupation.in.World.War.I.May.2000.pdf
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21/09/2012, 11:02
... feature was the role disease played in losses in the East During the entire war, in the West there were 2.8 sick cases for every one wounded man, in the East there were 3.7 sick cases for each ... clear view of the German encounter with the East which preceded the devastating Nazi invasion, when German troops returned to areas where their armies had been before The neglect of the Eastern Front ... suppressing the 1848 revolutions was not forgotten Indeed, it was on the left that the most durable antipathy toward the Russia of the Tsars (and the conservatism of the Russian peasantry) was found...
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The Use of American Propaganda During World War I
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17/11/2015, 01:03
... to the CPI for approval if there was even the slightest bit of doubt about the story When the Preliminary Statement was released on May 28, 1917, violating these regulations was not against the ... from the epoch of the American Revolution” (Axelrod 63) was perfect, and so the Committee on Public Information was born The Committee of Public Information Also known as the Creel Committee, the ... persuaded to change their beliefs if they cannot remember the key points of the propaganda A persuasive speech is not persuasive if the audience fails to remember what the key points of the speech were...
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in what ways and to what effect did the british cinema of the second world war mobilize support for th
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21/03/2014, 22:04
... during the war period, not least because they now made up the vast part of cinema audiences as the men had been conscripted, but mainly because their contribution was vital to the war effort They ... opportunity to challenge their previously subservient positions, they were made to realise that their part in daily life was as important to the war effort as those on the frontlines The government noted ... propaganda theory helped British film to find an identity for Britain and the British that would persist As the war affected everybody cinema audiences became easier to target as class and other regional...
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War Bonds in the Second World War: A Model for a New Iraq/Afghanistan War Bond? docx
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29/03/2014, 03:20
... Secretary of the Treasury, combined the War Savings Staff managed by the Treasury and the Victory Fund Committees into a new organization called the War Finance Division, which reported to the Treasury.8 ... Although these bills are silent on any relationship between the proposed “war bonds” and World War II-era war bonds, the question has been raised whether or not the issuance of war bonds during the ... interest as the Secretary [of the Treasury] may prescribe.” In response to congressional attention, this report describes the use of war bonds during the Second World War and examines their relevance...
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a history of money and banking in the united states; the colonial era to world war ii
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05/11/2014, 10:45
... representation of the past in conceptual terms The historian does not simply let the events speak for themselves He arranges them from the aspect of the ideas underlying the formation of the general ... What was the net contribution of the railroad to the growth of real GNP in the United States? Or, what has been the effect of the creation of the Federal Reserve System on the stability of the ... hide the naked plunder of the Emperor The task of the historian, then, is to penetrate to the essence of the transaction, to strip the ideological garb from the Emperor State and to reveal the...
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the first world war and the 20th century in the history of gaelic scotland a preliminary analysis
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22/12/2014, 16:55
... who were kind Because they might not drown them they dispersed them overseas; a thraldom worse than Babylon's was the plight they were in They reckoned as but brittle threads the tight and loving ... from the passage which contains the first of the two references which the war receives in The Making of the Crofting Community: In the spring of 1914 the Board of Agriculture requested the Scottish ... becomes the story of Gaels in the 20th century Therefore, when these points are refined for the particular themes followed in this thesis, what has to be considered is the possibility that a nascent...
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Changing englishness in first world war poetry
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03/10/2015, 11:37
... Robert Graves The inclusion of Edward Thomas, as well as some poems by the others, leads to the most significant qualification – the time of writing of the poem As a causal link between the poets’ ... England as a place, with more realism and detail than the Georgian poetry that influenced them England in the form of its people was also viewed differently than it was before the war, as the experience ... overseas, rather than the civilians back home Yet, for all that is undoubtedly new about the way the war poets perceived England through the lens of the war, another key point is that their poetry...
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Localizing memory scapes, building a nation commemorating the second world war in singapore
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10/11/2015, 11:01
... many seeing it as “downright and absolute tyranny … [as] the dead are not the property of the nation or of the regiment, but of the widow, of the father and of the mother” While the war dead may ... which the war was played out, the Asian peoples, with the exception of the Japanese as the main aggressors, did not feature as notably in the fighting cast made up largely by actors from the major ... compassion, consideration and benevolence” (Murfett et al 1999: 248) Their lives as they knew it were no longer, as they quickly learnt the ways, the might and brutality of their new masters The...
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world war 1
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28/09/2013, 11:10
... mạng tháng Mười Nga thành công C Chiến tranh giới thứ kết thúc D Hội nghò Vecxai khai mạc Câu 3: Theo em, chiến tranh giới 1914-1918 mang tính chất: A.Chính nghóa Anh-Pháp-Nga B.Chính nghóa Đức-o-Hung...
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trends in world educational media based on entries to the japan prize since 2000
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01/11/2013, 14:44
... displays them on the screen, making it look as though the user is playing along with the four animated characters as part of the band The 2010 Best Work in the Pre-school category, The Show with the ... to the ground, during which the boy’s mother is killed The interactive role-playing game linked to this program begins with the surrender of the Netherlands The plot centers on the search for the ... identity as a deaf person Then they discover a community where deaf people are accepted, and decide to move there As a result of the move, their daughter decides not to have an implant The other...
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Tài liệu Discover The 4 Key Secrets To Playing The Auction House In World Of Warcraft pdf
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24/12/2013, 02:15
... head through the game, gathering mats Find the best areas to gather them, and get everything you possibly can together Then, you can make items and sell them on the auction house during the weekend ... gold increases and your toon will gain from that cash as well Yes, these are only four of the reasons that you should head to the Outlands as soon as you possibly can There are more, and there is ... level 23-27 These always drop money and usually some great vendor items as well So, there you have it 10 of the best places to grind for gold in the World of Warcraft Yes, these are just the ones...
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Tài liệu Preventing Fraud and Corruption in World Bank Projects: A Guide for Staff ppt
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16/02/2014, 10:20
... members of the evaluation commission and the TTL for the project In fact, the reason for the invitation was not connected to the work of the evaluation commission, but nobody believed them C ASE S ... then attempted to obtain financing from the World Bank, but the Bank rejected the request on the same grounds as well as due to the fact that the works involved in the claim were not part of the ... financed by the Bank Unfortunately, the government came to the rescue of the Borrower and provided the financing What can the Bank in a case like this? C ASE S TUDIES 25 Case 16 The Purchaser’s procedures...
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Tài liệu BEYOND THE LAW The Bush Administration’s Unlawful Responses in the “War” on Terror pptx
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18/02/2014, 05:20
... humankind)14 as well as an express treaty-based obligation assumed by each signatory that is owing to every other signatory whether or not they are involved in a particular armed conflict.15 Furthermore, ... the Taliban does not conform to the structure of the Conventions The Conventions call for a decision whether they apply to the conflict in Afghanistan If they do, their provisions are applicable ... war crimes.78 They confused the question of whether Afghanistan existed with the question of whether the Taliban government was a de jure or de facto government.79 It did not suit their purpose...
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Tài liệu World War II: Biographies docx
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18/02/2014, 10:20
... three other war films) The award was given to the army and accepted by Capra Despite the acclaim the Why We Fight films received when they were released, there is some question as to whether they ... sharing his father’s interest—though he was neither as passionate nor as liberal as his father—in social issues He was elected to the Birmingham City Council in 1911 By the time Chamberlain was in his ... Meanwhile, the Communists worked behind the Japanese lines in northern China to strengthen their own troops and to win over more Chinese to their ideas Civil War with the Communists The war in Asia...
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Tài liệu The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 pdf
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21/02/2014, 11:20
... was not as many of us believed the primary cause of, the prevalence of these diseases, was the unsuitability of bully-beef and hard biscuits as the basis of our diet under the weather and other ... lines At the end of the first week the Battalion was again placed at the disposal of the 29th Division, then holding the extreme left of the British line The chief use they made of us was to call ... and relief from the pitiless sun Monday, 5th July, was a Turkish Holy Day Under the personal direction of Enver Pasha, or rather Enver Bey as he then was, the enemy marked the occasion by making...
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Tài liệu Fear and Loathing in World Football docx
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22/02/2014, 00:20
... versus the local, ‘us versus them’ Both Davies and White construct very definite notions of who they consider the ‘us’ and the ‘them’ to be The ‘us’, the local authentic fan; the ‘them’ the ersatz ... oppositions, they not eradicate them, nor they necessarily dilute them To the contrary, as I hope I have illustrated, rivalries rather than disappearing are remade, recast and certainly in the case of ... Laurie Blyth was signed on the grounds of his Protestant father, but the scouting system had not uncovered his mother’s Catholicism Blyth was released at the end of the 1950–1951 season without...
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World War I: Biographies doc
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07/03/2014, 02:20
... prayer, the wearing of the turban became a revered tradition In countries like the Ottoman Empire where Islam was the government as well as the religion, these traditions solidified into law In the ... the British They named the group Nili, the first letters in the Hebrew phrase “Netzach Israel Lo Ishaker” ( The strength of Israel will not lie.” Sam 15:29) This verse from the Bible became the ... home, she passed through Anatolia and Syria, which at that time were part of the Ottoman Empire, as was Palestine (The Ottoman Empire stretched across the Middle East and was controlled by the Turks,...
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WITH BRITISH GUNS IN ITALY A TRIBUTE TO ITALIAN ACHIEVEMENT pdf
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15/03/2014, 12:20
... times as long as the southern The northern part was held by the Italian Second Army, under General Capello, the southern by the Italian Third Army, under the Duke of Aosta In the north the Isonzo ... breaking the drop Gorizia has scattered suburbs: Salcano to the north, in the very mouth of the gorge, the fashionable suburb in days before the war; Podgora to the west, on the other side of the ... SOLFERINO CHAPTER XXXV THE ASIAGO PLATEAU ONCE MORE PART VI THE LAST PHASE CHAPTER XXXVI THE MOVE TO THE PIAVE CHAPTER XXXVII THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST BATTLE CHAPTER XXXVIII ACROSS THE RIVER CHAPTER...
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