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...not only great financial loss but also struggles to recover from the crisis. When the Asian Financial Crisis struck, several economies including APE... ...ket and financial system. Moreover, Indonesia’s experience drawn from the devastating Asian economic crisis in 1997,which crumpled its financial mark... ...heories on Financial Market Stability Financial markets are mechanisms, which allow people to sell and buy financial securities and other fungible... ...ize of their population, GDPs, and levels of economic development. With 2.735 billion people, the twenty-one APEC member economies represented 40 pe... ...9 billion in 210. However, the size of population varies starkly from over 1.3 billion people in PRC to 0.4 million people in Brunei Darussalam. PRC’... ... Brunei Darussalam 0.4 13 31,239 Canada 34.1 1,574.1 46,215 Chile 17.2 203.3 11,828 People’s Republic of China 1,341.4 5,878.3 4,382 Hong Kong, Ch... ....6 percent in 2009 as the global slowdown severely affected export and manufacturing (Asian Development Bank 2009). Furthermore, prior to the cris... ...continued decline in oil production contributed to the slowdown of Viet Nam’s growth (Asian Development Bank 2009). Similarly, Peru’s economy growth ... ... which was attributable to the steep rise in world commodity prices. According to the Asian Development Bank, economic growth forecasts showed moder...

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...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...o garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...ical limit of a kingdom. A king could impose his will on his troops and people only that far. Scripting Symbols of Shape Our ancestors survived... ...umbers of persons, not just to those within earshot who might repeat what people said. Writing gradually replaced the mnemonics of past civilizatio... ...er alphabet—as opposed to logographic writing‘s thousands of symbols. Asian histories emphasize that development of wood-block printing led to th... ...parallel, winds blow mostly from the Arctic northwest across the interior Asian plateau and release what little moisture they carry onto the norther... ...antly similar to Korean and Japanese but different from Chinese and other Asian tonal languages. (Even today, Turks in Anatolia easily master Korean...

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...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...lso garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...ical limit of a kingdom. A king could impose his will on his troops and people only that far. Scripting Symbols of Shape Our ancestors survived o... ...umbers of persons, not just to those within earshot who might repeat what people said. Writing gradually replaced the mnemonics of past civilizatio... ...tter alphabet—as opposed to logographic writing‘s thousands of symbols. Asian histories emphasize that development of wood-block printing led to th... ...parallel, winds blow mostly from the Arctic northwest across the interior Asian plateau and release what little moisture they carry onto the norther... ...antly similar to Korean and Japanese but different from Chinese and other Asian tonal languages. (Even today, Turks in Anatolia easily master Korean...

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...he election of a new Pope, the word spread like wild fire through the mass of people, who had been waiting patiently in the Square, that the newly e... ...r place. They have armies, Father. They have money and guns. They control the people through terror; they corrupt the politicians, even Presidents o... ... continue. Marian walked over to him and rubbed his back lovingly. Several people in the room wiped a tear away. The last year had been hell for ... ...lter said. Alex frowned at him. “You know, Walter, sometimes you should give people the benefit of the doubt. I remember when I first met you...” ... ...a’s death...” Alex caught himself. “I mean, for Christ sakes, there are young people out there,” Alex said pointing out the window, “dying every day... ...and next to Latin America, Colombian Cartels. “I must also include within the Asian market, the Tongs and Triads. But they are minor players, primar... ...nd controlled a 133 J.Cross/Artemis worldwide, black-market network. The Asians and the Colombian Cartels are both producers as well as distrib... ...plaining their marketing plan. Gallucci continued, "The Colombians and the Asians have employed the finest chemists in the world to refine their ... ...n America. All of the drug trade routes have been compromised. We knew of the Asian crackdown. We assumed the Mafia and Yakuza had decided, for reas...

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...ired and informed by the cultural and community values of Hawai‘i and its people, the Kü‘oko‘a Plan will free the Hawaiian economy from its depende... ...ired and informed by the cultural and community values of Hawai‘i and its people, the Kü‘oko‘a Plan will free the Hawaiian economy from its depende... ...e to make Hawai‘i the most appealing of destinations. On behalf of the people of the City and County of Honolulu, best wishes for an enjoyable an... ...ntal Design (LEED) rating system. The development, built especially for people of Native Hawaiian ancestry, blends the latest energy- saving tech... ...ration oferings. Investing in American solar projects is a smart move for Asian capital, says Schreck, Hoku Solar’s president. The best path for As... ...a’s Health. 15 17 18 20 19 21 16 America’s Most Diverse State White 24.7% Asian (mostly Filipino, Japanese, Chinese and Korean) 38.6% Mixed Race... ...ine with an eclectic flair. From various sushi rolls and ramen noodles to Asian-influenced quesadillas and ishiyaki hot stone bowls, SHOKUDO is a m... ... — alternative and conventional and outside United States jurisdictions Asian businesses L O C A T I O N S www.Carlsmith.com Geophysicist Greg Moo... ... an artifcial cornea made of human collagen meets an urgent demand. With Asian and Pacifc nations in mind, Wuh is building a plant in Honolulu to ...

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...abor of love and wouldn’t have been possible without the support of a lot of people. First I’d like to thank Lynne for making me get off my butt to ... ...hase, who was the inspiration for my heroine. Finally I’d like to thank the people who kept telling me I could do it when I wanted to chuck it and ... ...with love and harsh words when that’s what it takes. See, it takes a lot of people to force an author to finish a book and you thought it was a one... ... do you keep trying to foist it upon me?” “Just trying to help?” Jeez, some people just didn’t appreciate a Good Samaritan attitude. “Not shoving a... ...eyes toward the wall and mumbled something under his breath. I hate it when people do stuff like that. Either answer me or just say none of your fl... ...ements, but the European theater is experiencing its own troubles, as are the Asian and South American contingents. As a whole, we are stretched too... ... father’s second pairing. They both work for the Council. Eli works in the Asian Protectorate and Lissie operates in the European Arena.” “Kristai...

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... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...ight to have one's life terminated IA. The Right to be Brought to Life Only living people have rights. There is a debate whether an egg is a living... ...aintained Does one have the right to maintain one's life and prolong them at other people's expense? Does one have the right to use other people's ... ...e right against third parties that they refrain from enforcing the rights of other people against A? Does A's right not to be killed preclude the r... ...er the past five years, volatility spikes have become ever more frequent, from the Asian crisis in 1997 right up to the World Trade Centre attacks.... ... Europe as it reasserts the Monroe doctrine and attends to its growing Pacific and Asian preoccupations. It may assist the EU to cope with Russian ... ...g-run, Muslims are the natural allies of the United States in its role as a budding Asian power, largely supplanting the former Soviet Union. Thus, ...

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... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...ight to have one's life terminated IA. The Right to be Brought to Life Only living people have rights. There is a debate whether an egg is a living... ...aintained Does one have the right to maintain one's life and prolong them at other people's expense? Does one have the right to use other people's ... ...e right against third parties that they refrain from enforcing the rights of other people against A? Does A's right not to be killed preclude the r... ...er the past five years, volatility spikes have become ever more frequent, from the Asian crisis in 1997 right up to the World Trade Centre attacks.... ... Europe as it reasserts the Monroe doctrine and attends to its growing Pacific and Asian preoccupations. It may assist the EU to cope with Russian ... ...g-run, Muslims are the natural allies of the United States in its role as a budding Asian power, largely supplanting the former Soviet Union. Thus, ...

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...oximation. According to this latter day - rational - version of the dismal science, people refrain from repeating their mistakes systematically. The... ...ize their preferences. Altruism can be such a preference, as well. Still, many people are non-rational or only nearly rational in certain situa... ...ndbook of Experimental Economics", by John Hagel and Alvin Roth (eds.) admits that people do not behave in accordance with the predictions of basic... ...ory of utility and the theory of general equilibrium. Irritatingly for economists, people change their preferences mysteriously and irrationally. T... ... mysteriously and irrationally. This is called "preference reversals". Moreover, people's preferences, as evidenced by their choices and decision... ...er the past five years, volatility spikes have become ever more frequent, from the Asian crisis in 1997 right up to the World Trade Centre attacks.... ...ly and, in aggregate, repay their debts. Still, it should not be forgotten that the Asian crisis of 1997-8 was brought on by private profligacy. Fir... ...ected a successful transition to private venture capital which now - even after the Asian turmoil of 1997 and the global downturn of 2001 - amounts ...

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...ephone clicked off. Sang Huin felt hurt. He felt a morbid clarity behind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chin... ...ing only in personal interactions? Was he nothing but the composite of other people's impressions of him? These impressions--these judgments-- could n... .... He locked the locker and felt "Honja" ("alone). Even among large groups of people he was alone. When he went to restaurants he was usually "honja," ... ...him here to the mokotong, as it had to Seoul or even to South Korea itself. People had come and gone out of his life in such a storm, and he was in a... ...ing tobacco from her large bag. She put on a hat that made her look like an Asian rice farmer. Then she began to listen to Paganini's Caprices. Mean... ...age in the taunting of his untapped homosexual fantasies toward these boyish Asians. Such was done within this nice ostensible marriage and partnershi... ... the less small he would seem to others and himself. This was a typical East Asian reaction; and the concept that a man was no more than who he associ... ...more spread out, his nose more like a pig, and he had a dark brown Southeast Asian pigment. He was an emaciated "money boy" with a book bag swung onto... ...o the pillow but her man was there so she stoically absconded into a book on Asian owls. Chapter 40 Without much regard as to where he should sit, he ...

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...cts. The very definition of "artist" will expand to encompass all creative people. One will seek to distinguish oneself, to "brand" oneself and to au... ...to third party web sites (such as Bartleby.com and SatireWire). It allows people to donate money or effect micro-payments, apparently through its pa... ... was to exclusively cater to the needs of a highly idiosyncratic group of people (Silicone Valley geeks and nerds). The assumption that the USA (let ... ...tshell, he says, to use his own summation: "Marketing by interrupting people isn't cost-effective anymore. You can't afford to seek out people a... ...ongs to marketers who establish a foundation and process where interested people can market to each other. Ignite consumer networks and then get out ... ...picture somewhat. The Internet - A Western Phenomenon Not African, not Asian (with the exception of Israel and Japan), not Russian , nor a Third ...

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...1 1 1 0 Export 1 2 2 1 1 0 Chile Import 4 3 3 3 3 -25 Export 2 2 2 2 2 0 China, People’s Republic of Import 4 4 4 4 4 0 Export 2 2 2 2 2 0... ...l control for either export or import over the assessment period. They were Canada; the Peoples Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; Japan; Korea; Ma... ...overage At present seven APEC economies have an AEO programme in place. 3 They are the People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Ne... ...mies in question (AEO WG 2010). The KPI data are set out in Table 2 of Annex E. The People’s Republic of China provided data for 2008 and 2009, J... ...e percentage of trade covered per AEO actually increased by approximately 3.7%. The People’s Republic of China only provided data for 2008 and 20... ...elease Study Seminar, Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program of the Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank Institute, To...

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...th. Unfortunately our Eastern culture is being lost while fewer and fewer people are qualified to inherit, resulting in the blind following of the We... ...ed to inherit, resulting in the blind following of the West. Our nation’s people are losing confidence in their own culture! In education, Chinese c... ...hey become slaves to it, or free themselves from it? We find most wealthy people are merely slaves, and more and more followers choosing to be slave... ...his kind of civilization bring happiness to society? Unfortunately Eastern people are turning to the West. more and more people prefer a material ci... ...o abide by the natural law, namely Dao, never to indulge oneself. Western people, on the other hand, are educated to free themselves from all such do... ... interesting features of Neutrosophy is the dialogue it has initiated with Asian philosophy, Buddhism and Taoism in particular. Both of these traditi...

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... and immigration barriers in relation to the movement of merchandise and business people; cost near the border —costs associated with vessel transi... ...Result 29 6.3. PAA PILOT PROJECT – PREFENTIAL E-CO FROM MALAYSIA TO JAPAN Pan Asian E-Commerce Alliance (PAA) is the first regional alliance esta... ...ers consist of the leading customs and trade service providers of the most active Asian economies, namely China; Japan; Korea; Chinese Taipei; Hong K... ... 260,000 organisations, representing almost all active trading enterprises in the Asian market. Besides the e-CO case study of Korea and Chinese T... ... and immigration barriers in relation to the movement of merchandise and business people. B. Costs near the border: These costs are associated wit...

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...akes presentations and serves as a coordinator when the DD teams wish to interview people connected to the firm. Second Rule: Brief your workers.... ...ts were small and shareholders few. A firm resembled a household and the number of people involved – in ownership and in management – was correspon... ...of people involved – in ownership and in management – was correspondingly limited. People invested in industries they were acquainted with first ha... ...en financial investors and strategic investors is shifting in favour of the latter. People understand that money is abundant and what is in short su... ...er the past five years, volatility spikes have become ever more frequent, from the Asian crisis in 1997 right up to the World Trade Centre attacks.... ...s denominated in the collapsing currency. But the devaluation is so excessive that people reasonably expect a rebound - i.e., an appreciation of th... ...eciated strongly against all major currencies; as China, India, and other low-wage Asian countries became important exporters; as the price of ene...

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...II was quintessentially generative technology. It was a platform. It invited people to tinker with it. Hobbyists wrote programs. Businesses began to p... ...quitous Windows for Mac. Rather, they pose a fundamental dilemma: as long as people control the code that runs on their machines, they can make mistak... ..., they can make mistakes and be tricked into running dangerous code. As more people use PCs and make them more accessible to the outside world through... ...ng these users’ decisions is increasing. That value is derived from stealing people’s attention, PC processing cycles, network bandwidth, or online pr... ...hort of its endpoints, focusing only on the literal network itself: how many people are connected, whether and how it is filtered, and how fast it carr... ...ding BAILII, which contains links to British and Irish law-related material; AsianLII, with databases covering twenty- seven Asian countries and terri... ...vices. See, e.g., BAILII, http://www.bailii.org (last visited May 16, 2007); AsianLII, http://www.asianlii.org (last visited May 16, 2007); AustLII, h...

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...ering misconception of permanence, but the homeless had no such illusion. People such as that were as dust that blew askance from the automated brush... ...nce was substance the policemen thought. Having a matrix of these homeless people, these homelessers abound, was even worse than having to put up wit... ...e minutes went by with her crouched, squatted in one position, as if on an Asian toilet bowl, and they too became a half hour in the hours of the day... ... when it was nurturing for two parties, both making the other into better people, there was no reason for it to be such. She would have sensed the t... ...ill her perfunctory role as their burger burner, with the question of why people couldn’t just eat them rare and why Burger King could not just pay ... ...s. Can’t you see that? The whole economy would suffer. If the cultured people were all to forego pleasures for your sakes there would be no refine... ... at times by various illegal workers, some who were sallow and blanched as Asianic angels, some dark brown as toasted burritos, in part the store cat... ...some dark brown as toasted burritos, in part the store catered toward the Asian community where, among more traditional American products, one could... ...from that time forward she always wanted to go on a trip to this Southeast Asian country so far away from her insular life in the family home in New ...

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...s the country, accompanied by the words ‘Do you know this boy?’ Streams of people came forward claiming to be Theo’s father, mother, uncle or best fr... ...ad become a minor celebrity. Letters and f owers poured in every day from people who had read about him or seen him on the latest chat show. Ben- ef ... ...it. He had chosen psychology in the hope that he might learn how to trick people into liking him. However, his mother had pushed him to specialise i... ...ating my f owers?’ Theo cried, snatching the vase away from him. ‘You ask people that when you f rst meet them?’ Bozo laughed, his tail beating from... ...ason,’ Bozo continued smugly, ‘is that beautiful f owers – like beautiful people – usually come with a bad attitude. That 18 Bozo and the Storytell... ..., there was a street sweeper. It looked to Theo as though he were in some Asian city. Amid the rubbish and turmoil of the street, he leant upon his ...

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..." rhetoric, calling it "a menace threatening the world."36 Despite its European origins and its European goals, the idea took root among some Central Asian emigres, especially those living in Europe, as it promised the removal of the Russian occupation and subsequent colonization in their homelands. ...

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...f necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence. There are people who take a pleasure in mak- ing collections of all such fortuitous o... ..., the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a stranger ... ...who beheld his misfortune, must at the same time recognize his merits. The people also paid him the respect he deserved, and when he came into the the... .... Yet, notwithstanding this popularity, when he stood to be tribune of the people, he was disappointed, and lost the place, being opposed by the party... ...things to those who go upon great enterprises; and pacifying the barbarous people with money, he hastened his journey, and took possession of Spain, a... ...into Asia, in company with whom when Mithridates had reduced divers of the Asian cities, Marius made his entrance with rods and axes carried before hi... ...o answer for himself. Witnesses were produced to testify he had married an Asian woman, bestowed on him by one of king Seleucus’s lieutenants; that he... ...icians of the time. He sailed from Athens for Asia and Rhodes. Amongst the Asian masters, he conversed with Xenocles of Adramyttium, Dionysius of Magn...