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... taking place, the street was gay with coaches and sedan-chairs, and the attire of the people who then gathered was as brilliant as a flight of cockatoos. It was a period of spectacular dress and ... one, and although they had not won all that they had wanted, it was nevertheless a great satisfaction that they had accomplished so much, and they were now applying themselves with great zest ... of members to appreciate the importance of the issues. Much of the tedious and pointless character of their speeches may be ascribed to the lack of the personal presence of the Secretary. There...

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... agrees to a below-market interest rate in exchange for a share of the appreciated value of the collateral property. The share of the appreciated value is determined and due at the sale of the property ... decide on the appropriate composition of the on- and o-balance-sheet activities allowed by banks to ensure adequate liquidity, capital, and duration match of assets and liabilities. A balance must ... 8 Buildup and Meltdown of the Mortgage and Credit Markets The demand for residential real estate was seemingly insatiable. After rising at an average annual rate of slightly less than 3 percent...

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... precepts of humanity and of the Gospel. The experience of ages had betrayed the weakness, as well as folly, of Paganism; the light of reason and of faith had already exposed, to the greatest part of ... imprudence, and the perfidious arts of Maximus; but they wanted time, and force, and resolution, to stand against the Gauls and Germans, either in the field, or within the walls of a large and disaffected ... in a firm and equal tone, to offer Theodosius the alternative of peace, or war. The speech of the ambassador concluded with a spirited declaration, that although Maximus, as a Roman, and as the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... Justinian was born ^1 near the ruins of Sardica, (the modern Sophia,) of an obscure race ^2 of Barbarians, ^3 the inhabitants of a wild and desolate country, to which the names of Dardania, of Dacia, ... Walamir had fallen in battle; the youngest of the brothers, Widimir, had led away into Italy and Gaul an army of Barbarians, and the whole nation acknowledged for their king the father of Theodoric. ... into the Bay of Naples, commanded the various prospect of the sky, the earth, and the water. On the eastern side of the Adriatic, a new Campania was formed in the fair and fruitful province of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... navigation of the Red Sea. In the markets of Saana and Merab, in the harbors of Oman and Aden, the camels of the Koreishites were laden with a precious cargo of aromatics; a supply of corn and ... by the apostolic librarians and notaries of the viiith and ixth centuries; and that the last and smallest part is the work of Anastasius, whose name it bears. The style is barbarous, the narrative partial, ... over the useful animals; and the Arabian shepherd had acquired the absolute possession of a faithful friend and a laborious slave. ^11 Arabia, in the opinion of the naturalist, is the genuine and...

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... sight of the duke of Swabia and his way-worn remnant of five thousand Germans. At length, in the spring of the second year, the royal fleets of France and England cast anchor in the Bay of Acre, and ... voluntary and precarious, had embarked in their vessels for the long navigation of the ocean and Mediterranean; and many of the French and Italians had preferred a cheaper and more convenient passage ... scandal in the West.] The honor of the monarchy and the safety of the capital were deeply wounded by the revolt of the Bulgarians and Walachians. Since the victory of the second Basil, they had...

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... of Carolina, partly by water and partly by land, the stranger has an excellent view of the natural beauties, and rural inhabitants of the forest. At a distance the marshes and savannas appear ... men of the nation, actuated by a pious and laudable zeal for the propagation of the Gospel, associated, and formed a design of settling it at their own expence. To give an account of the rise and ... obstacles, and was productive of more serious and fatal An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, vol 110 ruins; and if they turn not headstrong and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 16:20

... our safety and quiet while wars and rumors of wars have agitated and afflicted other nations of the earth; for our A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 11 any of the public ... T.F. BAYARD, Secretary of State. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 9 In my annual message of the 8th of December last I said: In the application of the acts lately passed ... apart Thursday, the 26th day of November instant, as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and do invoke the observance of the same by all the people of the land. On that day let all secular business...

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... thing can recur, the very same thing cannot recur. As we shall see, the failure of Saint Paul and the earliest [ 20 ] the rise and fall of soul and self unifi ed we are mentally and how whatever ... thank the Research Development Fund of Dalhousie University, the Social Sci- ence and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the General Research Board of the University of Maryland, and the ... express the modern idea that there is such a thing as one’s true self . Wedding the traditional Greek ideal of realizing human excellence with a Roman, and [ 16 ] the rise and fall of soul and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:29

... other sounds to strangers via the airwaves, broadcasting was suddenly in the reach of just about anyone, and very soon all sorts of ideas as to what shape it should take, from the rather banal ... society. The arrival of mass broadcasting inspired, in the United States and around the world, an extraordinary faith in its potential as the benefactor, perhaps even a savior, of mankind. And while the reason ... side of the Atlantic, in the geographically vast United States, isolated clusters of local and mostly amateur operators, inspired by the enthusiasm of the hobbyist and a somewhat vague though earnest...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 20:24

... shop, and parish. It was bordered to the east by the tracks of the Illinois Central Railroad and to the north by a red board fence, beyond which lay a no-man’s-land of train yards and factories. ... and luncheonettes and, almost everywhere, brokerage firms and banks. The Fed’s immediate neighbors include a shoe repair stand and a teriyaki house, and also Chase Manhattan Bank; J. P. Morgan is a few blocks ... Hawkins, an Arkansan who had helped run Bill Clinton’s campaign for state attorney general and had then gotten a Ph.D. in financial economics from MIT; and William Krasker, an intense, mathematically...

Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2014, 21:25

... 19 3. The Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan 53 4. The Banking Crisis 73 II. The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking and the Looming Banking Crisis in China 99 5. The Rise of Abacus Banking in China 101 6. ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arayama, Yuko, 1951– The rise and fall of abacus banking in Japan and China / Yuko Arayama, Panos Mourdoukoutas. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN ... xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xix 1. Beyond Non-performing Assets: Abacus Banking 1 I. The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking and the Banking Crisis in Japan 17 2. The Rise of Abacus Banking in Japan...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 20:22

... per Bank Worker in Japan, China, and the United States (1981–1998) 10 The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China ã Corporate governance provided bank managers a free hand in managing assets ... avail. At the same time, the Japanese government has launched an aggressive fiscal stimulus package that poured billions of yen into The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China 8 The Rise ... 2 The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China The Japanese way of doing things seems to fit this stage of history better The Japanese system puts emphasis on stability and teamwork and...

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... the BOJ.’’ 23 This means that the BOJ vir- 34 The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China This means that Japanese bankers did not make a special effort to ap- praise and assess the ... of industry, the Jap- anese bureaucracy serves as a facilitator, an organization dedicated to 20 The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China bank and a moderate fee are sufficient for ... United States, a visit to the local branch of a major 32 The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China tually eliminated liquidity risk, a traditional banking risk. Adams and Hoshii...

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