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...ew, lest prices are not swayed. Studies cited in Edwin Elton and Martin Gruber's "Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis" and elsewhere s... ...International (UPI) Also Read: The Business of Risk Risk transfer is the gist of modern economies. Citizens pay taxes to ever expanding governmen... ...eurs to assume more of it, banks to get rid of it, and traders to hedge against it. Modern risk exchanges liberated Western economies from the tyran... ...anzania was the equivalent of 500 working hours - compared to 1.4 working hours in Switzerland. The price of medicines in poor countries - from Zim... ...n and progress in living standards are the outcomes of class envy. The wealthy are early adopters of expensive and unproven technologies. The rich ... ...ises. They position themselves as a bridge between warring or conflicting parties. Switzerland rendered this service to Nazi Germany (1933-1945), M... ...n. It upholds narcissistic values and penalizes alternative value- systems. From an early age, children are taught to avoid self-criticism, to decei... ...ow multinationals hurry to repatriate earnings and repay inter-firm loans with the early harbingers of trouble. FDI is, therefore, partly pro-cycli... ... APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – M...

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...ence. Finally she said, “Well, I guess we should go home. I have to get up early tomorrow for work.” “Yep.” He started the car and soon they were home... ...e tiny human; at last, someone would be close to her forever. The precious early months of the infant’s life, as Lacey suckled her and snuggled close,... ...r frequent compan- ions. When will this ever end? I hate you, you bastard! Early that morning, she’d been in the kitchen with Jana and Julian. Lisa, a... ...ock tower, turrets and exquisitely detailed façade, and further along, the modernistic twin semi-circles of New City Hall. She was agog at the crowds ... ...own choosing. “Nothing will deter me from this. I have considered going to Switzerland, and I have taken the first steps toward that end, but it invol... ...ave been braver and just cut my wrists! Or I could have waited and gone to Switzerland. It would have been better than this! She felt so ill she wonde... ...... ...logy, in press 2010 [R.D. Ogden] Choosing not to be: Christian beliefs and modern Canadian law, Hu- manist in Canada, 2005, 38 (152) 24-25 [R.D. Ogden...

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...ulating on leverage; and by cooking the books). The second open secret is that all modern financial markets are Ponzi (pyramid) schemes. The only v... ...few, lest prices are not swayed. Studies cited in Edwin Elton and Martin Gruber's "Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis" and elsewhere s... ...ques. "Overall, the empirical evidence suggests that short selling restrictions and early unwinding opportunities are very influential factors for t... ...stributed and fed on itself. Subsequent investment fiddles were different, though. Modern dodges entangle a large number of victims. Their size and... ...laws ... Similar arguments were heard in Japan in the late 1980s and Germany in the early 1990s - and yet in recent years house prices in these two ... ...In a rare accord, both the IMF and independent analysts, have cautioned Bulgaria in early 2002 that its insistence on keeping golden shares in both ... ... APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – M...

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...orical events and processes, the equivalents of trauma and abuse in an individual's early childhood. The United States of America started out as a... ...ughter civilians as a matter of course. "Collateral damage" is the main outcome of modern, total warfare - and of low intensity conflicts alike. ... ...s in battle? How should we judge the slaying of soldiers by terrorists in combat? Modern nation-states enshrined the self-appropriated monopoly on... ... to include ever growing segments of the world, conflicts became inevitable. Still, early Roman historians, patriotic to a fault, always describe R... ... prosperous and powerful, but it was culturally superior and vital, Christian, and modern. But it was decaying. Its social fabric was disintegratin... ...nai, the communist commander of the artillery, who defected to Hekmatyar's side as early as in 1990. Later in 1995, when Hekmatyar's rebellion was ... ... APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – ...

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...ents no profound challenge to established publishing practices and to the modern concept of intellectual property. Members register their books, obt... ...ity. The temptation is irresistible, the rewards big and the pressures of modern life great. Some of the plagiarists are straightforward copiers.... ...as long lost these attributes. The digital divides that opened up with the early adoption of the Net by academe and business - are narrowing. Already... ...kily, the e-book retains one innovation of the parchment - the hypertext. Early Jewish and Christian texts (as well as Roman legal scholarship) was ... ...unctions is very recent. E-books and POD partially help to restore the pre-modern state of affairs. Up until the 20th century, some books first appea... ..., the free library were two additional reactions to increasing demand. As early as the 18th century, publishers and booksellers expressed the fear t... ...A): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – Manager of ...

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...es to minimize the volatility of the region’s financial markets; 9) establishing an early warning system in every financial market in the APEC reg... ...t enough but at the same time do promote responsible risk taking; , and in developing early warning systems to make the process of identifying finan... ...nstitute a peer review of the financial sector of an FSB member economy, is one vital early warning system, which helps in identifying the state of ... ...possible an increase in per capita income. The Mexican economy has rapidly developing modern industrial and service sectors, characterized by rising... ...ial reform through: a) promoting domestic (long term) savings, b) accelerating the modernization of financial system, c) facilitating the reacti... ... Senate and House of Representatives passed the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 (Financial Services Modernization Act... ... the United Kingdom (15 percent), Japan (9 percent), the Netherlands (6 percent), and Switzerland (5 percent). Of Australia’s investment position, d... ...dential Dimensions of Financial Stability, Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland, Accessed September 2010, (http://www.bis.org/revi...

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...ed -- Spirit of discovery excited by Columbus' first voyage 59-66 CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from t... ...assage of the Atlantic before the time of Columbus -- Noah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 12... ... against Carthage -- An ancient ship that exceeded in size and splendor of any modern vessel 67-69 CHAPTER V. Superstitions which long disputed the pr... ...an independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain Cook. -- His early disadvantages -- Apprenticed to a haberdasher -- Engagement as a ... ...................... 543 INTRODUCTION. ANCIENT HISTORY possesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance envel... ... Red Sea, navigation should have had its beginning. We are told that in a very early period of antiquity, the age of which cannot be set down, there e... ...en of the finding of the hulls of ships and iron anchors upon the mountains of Switzerland, very far from land, though that the sea could have ever sw...

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...l — Embryol- ogy, laws of, explained by variations not superven- ing at an early age, and being inherited at a corre- sponding age — Rudimentary Organ... ... of variability, whatever they may be, gener- ally act; whether during the early or late period of development of the embryo, or at the instant of con... ... rapid and important. But it is very far from true that the principle is a modern discovery. I could give several references to the full acknowledgmen... ...es in Genesis, it is clear that the colour of domestic animals was at that early period attended to. Savages now sometimes cross their dogs with wild ... ... which were at first urged against Sir Charles Lyell’s noble views on ‘the modern changes of the earth, as illustrative of geol- ogy;’ but we now very... ...ll inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great ... ...cocci. According to Huber, who had ample opportunities for observation, in Switzerland the slaves habitually work with their masters in making the nes... ...probably depends merely on the slaves being captured in greater numbers in Switzerland than in England. One day I fortunately chanced to witness a mig... ...ll be formed, and when they migrate, the masters carry the slaves. Both in Switzerland and England the slaves seem to have the exclusive care of the l...

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...rybody was habitually out of town during the heat of the latter summer and early autumn; but this was not so. The war and attendant turmoils of war ha... ...by the lat- ter reputation rather than the former. As we were still in the early part of September, we expected to find the place full, but in this we... ...O happy Portlanders, if they only knew their own good fortune! They get up early, and go to bed early. The women are comely and sturdy, able to take c... ... and that it is dotted with huge hotels al- most as thickly as they lie in Switzerland, I had no idea. Much of this scenery, I say, is superior to the... ...d certainly fail in my attempt to make any reader understand me. I know no modern Gothic purer of its kind or less sullied with ficti- 80 North Ameri... ...ue moun- tains rise from narrow valleys, such as form the beds of lakes in Switzerland, Scotland, and Northern Italy; but from such broad waters as th... ... would have had no just ground for complaint. Of all nationalities that in modern days have risen to power, they, above all others, have shown that th... ...all places seek Niagara. In visiting Florence he may learn almost all that modern art can teach. At Rome he will be brought to understand the cold hea... ...than in New York—in London, for instance, in Paris, among the mountains of Switzerland, and the steppes of Russia—I do not doubt. But there is general...

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... and lastly, what are the reasons and causes which have induced almost all modern govern- ments to mortgage some part of this revenue, or to contract ... ... of this inland navigation was probably one of the principal causes of the early improvement of Egypt. The improvements in agriculture and manufacture... ...derable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the ancient Scythia, the modern T artary and Siberia, seem, in all ages of the world, to have been i... ...n. In England, therefore, and for the same reason, I believe, in all other modern nations of Europe, all ac- counts are kept, and the value of all goo... ...IES PRICE OF COMMODITIES PRICE OF COMMODITIES PRICE OF COMMODITIES IN THAT EARLY and rude state of society which precedes both the accumulation of sto... ...ly marry very young. Notwithstanding the great increase occasioned by such early marriages, there is a continual complaint of the scarcity of hands in... ...heir disputes with the neighbouring lords. In coun- tries such as Italy or Switzerland, in which, on account either of their distance from the princip... ...rt history of the republic of Berne, as well as of several other cities in Switzerland. If you except V enice, for of that city the history is somewha... ...s, the militia has not only been exercised, but regimented. In England, in Switzerland, and, I be- lieve, in every other country of modern Europe, whe...

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...as to the future of Scot- land, and as to that part of him which was truly modern under his Hebrew disguise. Hume, of course, the urbane, cheerful, ge... ... ol. 1 self: some time after. I offered Appleton a series of papers on the modern French school – the Parnassiens, I think they call them – de Banvill... ...bas, salute Ebenezer – O no, he’s too much, I withdraw Ebenezer; enough of early Christians. – Ever your faithful ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 72 The Lett... ...R. L. S. Letter: TO CHARLES WARREN STODDARD HOTEL BELVEDERE, DA VOS PLATZ, SWITZERLAND [DECEMBER 1880] DEAR CHARLES WARREN STODDARD, – Many thanks to ... .... It seems to me very much as if I were gingerly embarking on a History of Modern Scot- land. Probably Tulloch will never carry it out. And, you see, ... ... late upon the field, every one being pledged, which, seeing it is yet too early for any one to come upon the field, I must regard as a polite evasion... ...med – to resume – ) I have not put pen to the Bloody Murder yet. But it is early on my list; and when once I get to it, three weeks should see the las... ...olorums for me. Distinguo: 1. Silverado was not written in America, but in Switzerland’s icy mountains. 2. What you read is the bleeding and disembowe...

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....................................................... ................. 118 SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY ........................................... ...oubled by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman. Y.M. Well... ... had been put out. I lost my temper; I lose it easiest and quickest in the early morning. I rang; and immediately began to warn myself not to show tem... ...t. The gentleman rescued it and put it on a bush and brought the dog away. Early the next morning the mother bird came for the gentleman, who was sitt... ...six hundred years ago and more. The little church is packed in among great modern stores and houses, and the windows of them were full of people. Behi... ...en the manner of reform since the beginning of the world. Mark T wain 125 SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY In In In In Int t t t terlak erlak erlak... ...1. 1891. 1891. 1891. 1891. IT IS A GOOD MANY YEARS since I was in Switzerland last. In that remote time there was only one ladder railway in ... ... single recorded instance. The augurs could read en trails as easily as a modern child can read coarse print. Roman history is full of the marvels of... ... and more intimate knowledge of the world’s great literatures, ancient and modern, than was possessed by any other man of his time—for he was going to...

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...n active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperialism, and they denounced the ?Krupp-...

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...e chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the arma- ment industry t... ...ree” here to set aside, once for all, any possible misconception that this modern idea of a League of Nations has any affinity to that Holy Alliance o... ... a tie as strong, we hope, but certainly not so close and multiplex as the early tie of the States at Washing- ton. It will begin by having certain de... ...he peace of the world if the powers that are capable of making war un- der modern conditions say “No.” And there are only four powers certainly capabl... ...apable at the present time of producing the men and materials needed for a modern war in sufficient 12 In the Fourth Year abundance to go on fighting... ...vision. No one can vie with me in my appreciation of the civiliza- tion of Switzerland, Sweden, or Holland, but the plain fact of the case is that suc... ... enough and sufficiently enough of the follies and disingenuousness of our early treatment of the Russian Revolution. What I want to point out here is... ... century repub- lican freedom seemed a remote dream beyond the confines of Switzerland and France—and it had no very secure air in France. Reactionary... ...ree de- cades and although pronunciamentos rarely disturb the traf- fic in Switzerland, the United States, or France. But there can be no doubt that t...

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... any drive for power we might have, which he called sublimation, is only a small part of the pleasure drive. Alfred Adler, as you know, was an early ... ...wards pleasure or a drive for power, and we find that their hypotheses are based on a relatively few interviews with Viennese neurotics in the early ... ...e evidence of that need in the West. But is it true among the natives of Oceania or Asia? Still, let us look for a while at some of the major early ... ...e was not aware of the ‗pleasure center‘ in the brain--the medial forebrain bundle. It is here that the major effects of orgasm are centered. Modern... ...y I would guess that his research would have taken a different path and his theories would have been either strengthened or abandoned based on modern... ...who are driven to seek pleasure. Adler believed that we are driven for power over our environment -- for superiority. He is backed up by such modern... ...most surveys. The Scandinavian countries do quite well with Finland, Iceland and Sweden generally in the top ten. Norway ranges from 10 to 19. Switze... ...h Russia 167 th . This doesn‘t indicate that the large economic powers produce grossly happy people. ―In the same study with Denmark, Switze...

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... • Slovakia • Slovenia • South Korea • Spain • Sri Lanka Sudan • Sweden • Switzerland • Taiwan • Tajikistan • Thailand • Trinidad and Tobago • Turkey... ...by peeling and coring 80 pineapples a minute. SOME SAY HAWAI‘I invented modern tourism promotion in 1902 when Honolulu business owners sent an ag... ... U.S. mainland to show photos of the Islands. Tracing its roots to these early eforts, the Hawai‘i Visitors and Convention Bureau has served as a ... ...termine where gunshots came from and what type of weapon fred them. • An early commercial success came with the invention of a rapid-response test... ...Endoscopy Institute of Hawaii, to provide state of the art screening and early detection of gastric and colon cancer. Though some of his products h... ...TY OF HAWAI‘I JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE The University of Hawai‘i’s modern John A. Burns School of Medicine is located in Kaka‘ako on O‘ahu. 7... ...ssionaries. In contrast, there is hula ‘auana, hula without ceremony, or modern hula, danced to tuneful songs with lively lyrics. More modern inst...

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...ctive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose “Republic” set the model for ... ...opeless task, and in- deed in the past it has generally proved so. But the modern world, by the increase of education and the rise in the stan- dard o... ...y of these movements will be undertaken. Socialism and Anarchism, in their modern form, spring re- spectively from two protagonists, Marx and Bakunin,... ...ame editor of a newspaper, which was suppressed by the Prussian Government early in the following year on account of its ad- vanced opinions. This led... ...r he incurred the hostility of the Saxon Government. This led him to go to Switzerland, where he came in contact with a group of German Communists, bu... ...ted itself largely to combating Mazzini’s nationalism. In 1867 he moved to Switzerland, where in the following year he helped to found the “Internatio... ...ded to join it, and he brought with him a considerable following in French-Switzerland, France, Spain and Italy. At the fourth Congress, held at Basle... ...nment has shown that it falls very far short of what was expected of it by early Socialists, and the Anarchist revolt against it is not surprising. Bu... ...ocialists, the French have been split into many different factions. In the early eight- ies there was a split between the Parliamentary Socialists and...

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...of a thousand years.” All Zarathustra’s views, as also his personality, were early 8 Thus Spake Zarathustra conceptions of my brother’s mind. Whoever... ...- ing, and the oppressed, has succeeded in producing a weak, suffering, and “modern” race, so this new and reversed system of valuing ought to rear a ... ...), as signifying “the most thoroughly well-constituted type,” as opposed to “modern man”; above all, however, he designates Zarathustra himself as an ... ... connection with the proofs and the publisher. When, however, we returned to Switzerland to- wards the end of June, and he found himself once more in ... ... spake Zarathustra. XXI. VOLUNTARY DEATH MANY DIE TOO LATE, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: “Die at the right time! Die at t... ...ly is it that hath too much patience with you, ye blasphem- ers! Verily, too early died that Hebrew whom the preachers of slow death honour: and to ma... ...- out the book, is the expression used in referring to the self-righteous of modern times,—those who are quite sure that they know all that is to be k...

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...ng sense of the value and blessings of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal govern- ment to preserve and perpetuat... ...he arts of industry, and the science of finance, which is the offspring of modern times, concurring with the habits of nations, have produced an entir... ...s- coveries, or have made their principal progress towards per- fection in modern times. They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences ... ...made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarranta... ...ce, as the interests or passions of the contracting powers dictate. In the early part of the present century there was an epidemical rage in Europe fo... ...and will furnish a cogent example. The spirit of clanship which was, at an early day, introduced into that kingdom, uniting the nobles and their depen... ...ated States, has been illustrated by other examples as well as our own. In Switzerland, where the Union is so very slight, each canton is obliged to a... ...es, experience shows us that it is more imperfect than that of Holland and Switzerland.” “Greece was undone,’’ he adds, “as soon as the king of Macedo...

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...ualified them, to my rigour; but they were stall right,” in the so analytic modern critical phrase, through their discreetly disavowing emulation. Noth... ...ce had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the Modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of... ...ce of continents and seas, that he was unable as yet to emulate; from vast modern machineries and facilities whose acquaintance he had still to make, ... ... just in front of him while he walked, the iron shutter of a shop, closing early to the stale summer day, rattled down at the turn of some crank. Ther... ... as drop ping social scraps into them as she had known old ladies, in her early American time, drop morsels of silk into the baskets in which they co... ...ere, all the rather shabby but still ever so pretty human furniture of her early time, including the good sisters of the poor convent of the Tuscan hi... ...ays before they start. I’ll go abroad with you if you but say the word; to Switzerland, the Tyrol, the Italian Alps, to whichever of your old high pla...

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...e of Count Bezukhov’s distress some fifteen times. “That’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. “It seems that while he was abroa... ... that pleasant, intelli- gent, and resolute young man. As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely life, he felt an unaccoun... ...een losing at cards all night, had not yet come home when Rostov rode back early in the morning from a foraging expedition. Rostov in his cadet unifor... ...been losing,” answered Lavrushka. “I know by now, if he wins he comes back early to brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost... ... of an offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutuzov when he was in Vie... ..., then he ought to retire from the service and go abroad, and see England, Switzerland and Italy. “I must use my freedom while I feel so much strength... ... with Pierre, and which had filled his solitude at Bogucharovo and then in Switzerland and Rome, but he even dreaded to recall them and them and the b... ...d done, he wrote: The Russian war should have been the most popular war of modern times: it was a war of good sense, for real interests, for the tranq... ... a long-forgot- ten, kindly old man who had given him geography lessons in Switzerland. “W ait a bit,” said the old man, and showed Pierre a globe. Th...

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...hen the Swedish throne be- came vacant by the death of his father. But the early maturity of his genius enabled the Es- tates to abridge in his favour... ...ss. The young Countess of Brahe, the daughter of a subject, had gained his early affections, and he had re- solved to share with her the Swedish thron... ...was at hand. Both citizens and soldiers left their posts upon the ramparts early in the morning, to indulge themselves, after their long toils, with t... ...oad into a district hitherto unvisited by war. A post on the en- trance to Switzerland, would be highly service- able to the Swedes, and the town of K... ...ow to keep alive the zeal of his followers, while no general of ancient or modern times could boast of being obeyed with equal alacrity. Submis- sion ... ...ng more, he might venture to form more dar- ing plans. Bernard affords, in modern history, a splendid example of those days of chivalry, when personal... ...e reason to expect, and the advantage of possessing a pass into the Tyrol, Switzerland and Italy, induced the Swedish general to ven- ture an attack u...