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...MFIs Micro Finance Institutions MSE Micro and Small Enterprise NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement NBFCs Non-Banking Financial Companies NGOs No... ...piled by US Census Bureau reveal that 43.6 million people (or one in seven Americans) lived in poverty in 2009, up from 39.8 million in 2008. The US p... ... (14.3 percent) in 2009 was the highest since 1994. Besides, the number of Americans without health insurance jumped to 50.7 million in 2009 from 46.3... ...on in 2009, down 6 percent from $336 billion in 2008. In the case of Latin American countries such as Mexico, inward remittances have declined due to ... ...business was all about debt assembled in a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) fashion by financiers. Governments, central banks and public monetary authorities chip... ...apitalism. This trend should be seen in the wider context of several Latin American countries (such as Venezuela and Bolivia), Russia and China increa... .... This is despite the fact that powerful lobbies of domestic big business, financiers and economists have been demanding complete dismantling of capit... ...and supervisors may keep on serving narrow vested interests of bankers and financiers. In the developed countries, large, complex and internationally ... ...s of such financial innovations are usually cornered by a handful traders, financiers and quants. Therefore, unproductive financial innovations with n...

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...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...Valuation Portfolio Management Theory and Technical Analysis Lecture Notes In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists us... ...y a paper titled "Doing it Now or Later", published in the March 1999 issue of the American Economic Review. In it the authors suggest that over-in... ...ne in - vainly - trying to compensate for imploding capital markets and risk-averse financiers. In 1999, chancellor Gordon Brown inaugurated a $1.6 ...

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...conomic crisis. Import prices plummeted further as the rupiah appreciated against the American dollar. Indonesian government kept its benchmark inte... ...ge, after Brazil's. Still, the Bolsa remains relatively small compared to other North American exchanges. The Bolsa trades stocks, warrants and fixed... ...ic integration with the US and the high volume of trading in Mexican equities through American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). Currently, the decline in... ...rcent. United States is thus a services dominated economy. The largest percentage of American labor force works in professional, managerial and tec... ...ments plans to invest in innovation, which should increase the competitiveness of the American economy, and help in creating many new jobs, new inco... ...ign exchange and investment management. 26 Finance companies (including general financiers and pastoral finance companies) Provide loans to... ...5.1 Money Market Corporations 48.5 76.7 62.0 Finance Companies and General Financiers 52.8 74.1 103.1 Life Offices and Superannuation Fun... ...ative markets without adequate supervision and regulation, compounded by the greed of financiers plunged the US subprime mortgage market into defaul...

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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...choly place. This was partly owing to the despondent tone in which so many Americans then spoke of their own affairs. It was not that the Northern men... ...of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the American machine. When any matter of real interest occasioned a vote, the a... ...they have at any rate been among money men and money matters, and have had financiers at their elbows if they have not deserved the name them- selves.... ... state of affairs is certainly one that has not uncommonly been reached by financiers; it has also often been experienced by gentlemen in the man- age...

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...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...owers left— the anti-German allies, the allied Central Europeans, the Pan- Americans. And it is to be noted that, whatever the constitu- ents of these... ... the European States after the war will grow up in the common European and American mind; public men on either side will indicate concordance with thi... ...y anyone. Our Press is constantly bought and sold, in gross and detail, by financiers, advertisers, political parties, and the like. Ger- many came in... ...ll the great initiatives have been assumed by the State, the importance of financiers and pro- moters will have diminished relatively to the importanc...

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...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...rvene, but it is still chary of such intervention. And these states of the American Union were at the outset so independent-spirited that they would n... ... a common name. To this day they have no common name. We have to call them Americans, which is a ridiculous name when we consider that Canada, Mexico,... ... open speech and plain rea- son might save the world, courts, bureaucrats, financiers and profiteers conspire. VII VII VII VII VII THE FUTURE OF MONAR...

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...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...vertisements of those home-study courses which the energy and foresight of American commerce have con- tributed to the science of education. The first... ...e these correspondence-courses might prove to be one of the most important American inventions. “Trouble with a lot of folks is: they’re so blame mate... ...fect not at all humorous. It embodies the heavy dignity of those Victorian financiers who ruled the generation between the pioneers and the brisk “sal...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...good deal like everybody in general. By and by a hearty and healthy German American got in and opened up a frank and interesting and sympathetic conve... ...erhaps we shall get along better, and I shall stop calling Waggner, on the American What Is Man and Other Essays 140 plan, and thereafter call him Wa... ...erers, misers, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemists, biolo...

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...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...rst of endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of American girl. When some years ago I paid my first and only visit to Americ... ... the teeming uproars of reality. There was not a dozen people all told, no Americans and scarcely any English, to dine in the big cavern of a dining- ... ...islation for children and the working class, as any political section. The financiers, too, are adven- turous-spirited and eager for mechanical progre...

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...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ...man under a cloud to hoodwink old women of the world. They are the prey of financiers, but Time has presented them a magic ancient glass to scan their... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

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...tion to (I) the production, (2) the distribution, (3) the consump- tion of American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat ... ...known to all Chicago people, 11 Frank Norris what he said carried weight, financiers consulted him, pro- moters sought his friendship, his name on th... ... wear them after all. My poor little flowers.” But she showed him a single American Beauty, pinned to the shoulder of her gown beneath her cape. “Yes,... ...n his studio and regularly kow-tow to it, and talk about the ‘decadence of American industrial arts.’ I’ve heard him. I say it’s pure affectation, tha... ...od for you; you keep to that. There’s no better motto in the world for the American man of business.’ He shook my hand when he said it, and I haven’t ... ...meat or potatoes, as it is with us. The only way to do so that neither the American farmer nor the European peasant suffers, is to keep wheat at an av...

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...y) takes his determination, votes for the six- pences, and in the emphatic Americanism, it “goes for” them. And while such an one is ploughing distres... ... indifferent to your achievement. Hence physicists condemn the unphysical; financiers have only a superficial toleration for those who know little of ... ... yet, when one comes to think upon it calmly, the situation of these South American citizens forms only a very pale figure for the state of ordinary m...

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...lt. It described a course which, if followed, would have ruined an army of financiers, of clerks, of functionaries of all kinds; it would have forced ... ... cel- ebrated over all Europe, was regretted in France by all who were not financiers or their supporters. Boisguilbert, whom this event ought to have... ... rich to afford hope of a large ransom, and that not one of our wealthiest financiers had been seized in this man- ner, this explanation was at last a... ... were, perpetuated and appropriated by the King, and are re- ceived by the financiers on his account to this day as a branch of the revenue, the name ... ...t seen for many years, he appointed a day to be de- voted to them. The two financiers demanded that he should close his door so as not to be interrupt... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h...

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... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...tain kind of order. This table was also frequented by com- mercial people, financiers and contractors, but extremely polite, and such as were distingu... ...s administra- tion. When he began to let his hand fall rather heavily upon financiers, I perceived he did not begin his operation in a favorable momen... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...sitancy of the most knowing, the most clearsighted, the shrewdest of Paris financiers seemed inexplicable. “What ails the chief?” said a stockbroker t...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans... ... been committed to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public t... ...twork that came to be known as the “Golden Chain, ” put together mainly by financiers in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states. Donations flowed th... ...oyed a strong financial position in Afghanistan, thanks to Saudi and other financiers associated with the Golden Chain. Through his relationship with ... ...ter 9/11, the United States took aggressive actions to designate terrorist financiers and freeze their money, in the United States and through resolut... ...mit the tracing of financial transactions. Public designation of terrorist financiers and organizations is still part of the fight, but it is not the ...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...l Warren. And failing that, I wish that Charles Dickens, who wrote in his “American Notes” with such passionate disgust and hostility about the first ... ... return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whol... ...lack of understanding and support on the part of those able barristers and financiers who rule our political life. Science has been left more and more... ...al mad dog returned very peaceably together. The Fabian hunt was up. Great financiers contributed generously to a School of Eco- nomics that had been ...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...re to look when I find myself 7 Memories and Portraits in company with an American and see my countrymen un- bending to him as to a performing dog. B... ...npopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to have perceived in an American boy a greater readiness of sympathy for lands that are great, and ... ...nd-tumble in the Place de Greve, and forget d’Artagnan’s visits to the two financiers. My next reading was in winter-time, when I lived alone upon the...

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...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor... ...ssible for these two classes to unite or to put forward any demands… . The American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World repres... ...nt. Apart from occasional conflicts, comparable to the rivalry of opposing financiers which now sometimes disturbs the har- mony of the capitalist wor... ...political rule. This is the essential significance of the recent change in American foreign policy as illustrated by the Spanish War, the Philippine a... ...the more profitable control of that machinery by the class of professional financiers. The kind of way in which such conditions tend toward war might ... ...ith an unsettled government can be minimized. T o minimize these risks the financiers call in the assistance of the military and naval forces of the c... ...hich is often, directly or indirectly, influenced by the will of the great financiers. So long as enmity between England and Russia was desired, our n...

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...d that she should deal with embarrassed crowned heads, fleeing Presidents, financiers of over-extended ability, women to whom change of air was impera... ... across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, coll... ...ving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. 007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he sto... ...ive-cent sidewalk-fakirs’ mechanical toys! Here’ s an eight-wheel coupled ‘American’ don’t know what a hot-box is! Never heard of an emergency-stop ei... ...t till he begins to paint,’ I said. “‘That’s just what he’s done—and South American freights higher than we’ll live to see them again. He’s laid her u... ...egal process he’ d found in a book o’ maritime law. An’ a’ that week South American freights rose an’ rose. It was sinfu’! “Syne Bell got orders to ta...

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...e business and property for purely selfish ends? What of many of our great financiers who use every possible reform and conventional catch word as a m... ...ivil War. During the last war, these en- croachments were greater than any American could have possibly dreamed; and so far there seems little immedia... ...rough the needs of the rulers in war they were given to the poor. When the American Revolution separated us from Great Britain, the spirit of democrac... ...ch and nerves, and Nature will have revenge. T o be sure, the professional American rhapso- dist points out that we are immune from natural law becaus...

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...lists in the time of Moliere, who can doubt but that they, like marquises, financiers, doctors, and lawyers, would have been within the province of th... ...e cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fash...

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...ange took place. The gin-pits were elbowed aside by the large mines of the financiers. The coal and iron field of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire was d... ... followed the manufacturer into a grubby little room, upholstered in black American leather, glossy with the rub- bing of many customers. On the table...