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... unimportant from the early 1930s tosometime inthe 1950s. Nevertheless, for consistency with the other series inWhat Was the Interest Rate Then? one must determine the year in which the “switch” ... description of the development of the interest-rateseries inWhatWasthe Interest Rate Then? The objective of the project was togenerate interest-rate series for the United States and United Kingdom ... made by others. The great increase inthe use of the Treasury bill to finance government borrowing [in the First World War] allowed the discount market to survive by making these its main asset.”—Capie...
... territoriesruled by the prince to the treaty – be they the estates or the main juridicaland financial institutions of the prince – and not to binding the as yetnon-existent state. In short, whereas the ratification ... successors.31These clauses show that, on the one hand, the binding ofsuccessors was not self-evident, and that, on the other hand, the princescould bind their successors. Some treaties contained more ... andsuccessors to the princes who entered the treaties. There can be no doubt29This was not the case inthe Holy Roman Empire. On the presence of the Estates of the Empire inthe Westphalia Peace...
... of the frontiers, to be held in common by the society. The power of ordering and managing these lands, and the settling and planting of them, was to remain in the society. Virginia was to pay the ... consequently the beginning of a more specialinterest inthe interior.Let us first examine the northern part of the movement into the back country. The expansion of New Englandinto the vacant ... of instituting a strong government inthe period of the confederacy. The frontier individualism hasfrom the beginning promoted democracy. The frontier States that came into the Union in the...
... for their religion and culture. Theyhad to set themselves off from the rest of their fellow Europeans by sewing yellow Stars of Davidonto their clothes. Even before the transfer of Jews into ... tochange anything. By doing so, they would run the risk of altering their ideal lifestyle. The world isnot a static environment, though. With the constant interactions of people and the advancement ... desire. They simply see it as people acting differently from before. That is unwelcome in Pleasantville since it was already such a perfect place where the biggest problem was choosing what to...
... prenatal testing andtermination when there is no other means of avoiding intolerable suVeringon the part of the child and family. She was actually a member of the workingparty of the Royal College ... should a feminist obstetrician go in impos-ing treatment on women inthe name of their own best interest, and/or that of the fetus? Bewley is willing to recognize the interests of the fetus to ... otherwords, the stranger within ourselves. The implication for cloning is that the parent(s) seeking reproductive cloning cannot accept that strangeness, car-ried inthe matrix of the gestating mother.’...
... efficiency gain in production, due to the innovation, net of the possibly noncompetitive pricing of the improved inputs. But for the rest of the marketing sector we postulate a competitive setting.13A ... units. But for the latter we assume that the cost of drawing the required farmer-supplied efforts into organic production are increasing at the margin. For instance, one canimagine a population ... on the other hand, is assumed to be anincreasing cost industry: at the margin, expanding organic production requires additional farmer-supplied inputs that are available only at increasing...
... back on their holdings of cash and securitiesand selling or securitizing parts of their loan portfo-lio. All of these steps are increasing the challengesthat banks face in maintaining sound ... “crisis” in the making.1These concerns may have easedsomewhat over the past few months in response toweaker loan demand, falling interest rates, andincreased liquidity inthe financial system. ... ofequity investments during the 1990s and the corre-sponding shifts that individuals made in their finan-cial portfolios.Comparing bank deposit rates to the yields onsimilar financial instruments...
... that time, the system was tried of skinning birds in their fresh state, and also of cutting the skins longitudinally in two halves, and filling the one half with plaster; then the skin was fixed ... the inclemency of the weather, and also inthe case of the luxurious Greeks and Romans, who used skins inthe adornment of their persons or homes. In fact, the conversion of skins into leather ... partly clearing the head by this means, and partly by pouring in certain drugs; then, making an incision inthe side with a sharp Ethiopian stone, they draw out the intestines through the aperture....
... but they may also abuse discretion when it is in theirinterest. For this reason, reporting incentives are likely to play an integral role in determining the informativeness of reported accounting ... referred to as insider economies. The Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries would generally be viewed as being somewhere inthe middle.Second, accounting regulation within theEuropean Union ... together with the controls. The coefficients on the variablesof interest are highly significant. In fact, the t-statistic for the PUBL coefficient in the complete model is larger than in any other...
... under the Kyoto Protocol. Indeed, sincepart of the carbon consumed is stored inthe live tis-sue of the growing animal, a growing global herd couldeven be considered a carbon sink. The standing ... them. At the same time, children arebeing increasingly educated on climate change in school, andare searching for activities that allow them to experimentwith what they have learned. Yet they ... adver-tising, having less-ingrained habits than adults, and oftenseek to catch the wave of a new trend. Parents often join in eating a fast food meal or other food product that their chil-dren insist...
... Sectors in the high income countries of the Region was about US $11 000–33 000, and the aver-age annual growth rate of GNP in all the high income economies was 2.3% in the period 1980–1991. The ... with other factors, con-tributed to the enormous changes in the CCEE and NIS at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.Table 1.4 illustrates economic growth in 1989–1993. The annual ... de-crease inthe share of agriculture, an increase in the role of industry in two groups of coun-tries, and a decrease for industry and an in- crease for services inthe third.1.2.3 The CCEE...
... countries with THEHISTORY OF THE INTERNET IN THAILAND48able with the new technology. Also, the increased presence of the Internet in rural areas would help ISPs promote their services inthe long ... http://www.nectec.or.th/inet-map/1995/ THEHISTORY OF THE INTERNET IN THAILAND20key personnel. Yunyong explained that engineering students at the univer-sity were always allowed to participate inthe setting up of the Internetgateway ... political instability. Since the beginning, the government was very slowto acknowledge the importance of the Internet, and react to the country’sshortage of human resources. Instead of promoting the...
... analysis. What you are learning in school is analysis. You are being taught tools and techniques. Analysis is just one of the ingredients inthe recipe. You may have the best analysis inthe room. ... often, talented people with the best answers sit inthe back of the room while hacks run the show. If you enjoy the view from the back, getting an MBA will not change anything. A MBA degree only ... an Indian electrical engineer who grew up in a typical middle-class family. What made him different was that he dreamed of building a world-class company. In 2006, the annual revenue of Infosys,...
... In prostate tests PSA what is the difference between total PSA and free PSA? What is the normal range? In addition, how can it be that if there is ANY prostate specific antigen inthe blood ... blood that there is no prostate cancer?Doesn’t the existence of any PSA means that the body is reacting with antibodies against cancerous cells inthe prostate.PSA starts out inthe fluid that ... is a protein normally made in the prostate gland in ductal cells. These cells make some of the semen that comes out of the penis during sexual climax (orgasm). PSA helps to keep the semen liquid.PSA...