... contributing factor was the passage ofthe Tax Reform Act of 1986 Reagan’s tax cuts eliminated many ofthe tax shelters that had made real estate an attractive investment in the first place, and deposits ... options, there was no clearinghouse for trades in most ofthe 21 Barth, James R., R Dan Brumbaugh Jr and James A Wilcox, The Repeal of Glass-Steagall and the Advent of Broad Banking,” Journal of Economic ... industry The repeal of GlassSteagall was a monumental piece of deregulation, but in many ways it ratified the status quo ofthe time.21 Hands-Off Regulation Many argued that consolidation in banking...
... than average because ofthe Christmas season and the first few days of January are traditionally a sales and stocktaking period for retailers A number of other dates were considered but, in the ... lead times for printing banknotes and minting coins The date of January 2002 had both advantages and disadvantages The peak period for banknote use is at the end ofthe year: circulation is around ... cultures and had to avoid any national or gender bias. This impartial approach was taken into account when choosing the design theme. The notes should also allow the incorporation of aesthetically appealing...
... among them The first races that came were short and dark They came in tribes They had tribal marks, the picture of an animal as a rule; and they had a strange fancy that this animal was their ancestor ... swarmed across the eastern sea The Angles came to the Humber, and spread over the plains ofthe north and the midlands of Roman Britain; the Saxons came to the Thames, and won the plains and the ... between a Welshman who was an innate freeman and a Welshman who lived on a serf maenol Their aim was to make them all pay the same tax The fall in the value of money At the time ofthe Norman Conquest,...
... supplementary to those ofthe bailiff: he looked after all the live and dead stock ofthe manor, saw to the manuring ofthe land, kept a tally ofthe day's work, had charge ofthe granary, and delivered ... manor to another, as they needed it The accounts also stated what days' works were due from each tenant according to the season ofthe year, and at the end of each year there was a careful valuation ... from the manor; and the officers ofthe manor failed to catch them This was common in other manors, and the 'withdrawal' of villeins played a considerable part in the disappearance of serfdom and...
... the application of sacral law such as the regulation ofthe calendar, but at the same time they supervised secular law Furthermore, archaic law—like the law of nearly all primitive peoples—was ... in Italy south ofthe river Po 4.2.2 The conquest ofthe Mediterranean area Ofthe great powers in the Mediterranean area Carthage (a town on the coast of present-day Tunisia) was the one that ... such as the emancipation the making ofa mancipatory will and property transfer by mancipatio of res mancipi (land in Italy, slaves and cattle); these acts were also called acts per aes et libram...
... then wrote ofthe social and personal value of such a warning Recurrent speculative insanity and the associated financial deprivation and larger devastation are, I am persuaded, inherent in the ... outstretched hands in the neighboring oil patch And in Dallas and Houston to the manifold disasters AShortHistoryof Financial Euphoria ofthe great Texas oil and real estate speculations And who, across ... other stocks As the latter appreciated in value-for a while-all the increase accrued to the owners This was proclaimed one ofthe financial miracles of that age It was, in fact, leverage in, at...
... being the time ofthe American Civil War, the company also manufactured guns for a few years) In 1914 an article about the association between LS&CO and Amoskeag appeared in the mill’s own newspaper ... doing manual labor The denim for the first waist overalls came from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire, on the East Coast ofthe United States This area, known as New ... Genoa, Italy There is another explanation: jean and denim fabrics were both used for workwear for many decades, and “jeans pants” was a common term for an article of clothing made from jean fabric;...
... Graecia Magna, had been brought before the Athenians on various occasions Anaxagoras Amongst the most important ofthe philosophers who resided at Athens and prepared the way for the Athenian ... that of mathematics under Greek influence, that ofthe mathematics ofthe middle ages and ofthe renaissance, and lastly that of modern mathematics The next four chapters (chapters ii, iii, iv and ... 412–485 Damascius Eutocius Roman Mathematics Nature and extent ofthe mathematics read at Rome Contrast between the conditions at Rome and at Alexandria End ofthe Second Alexandrian School...
... principally to the sick, I shall in the next place speak of them, as they relate to Physicians, and that either to the profession in general, or to the particular practisers of it As to the Physicians ... for the fixed Salts, most of them are made ofthe Ashes of Tobacco-stalks, &c More might be said for the discovery ofthe Cheats of other Chymical preparations, which shall be reserved to another ... him ofthe same disease) to his greater charge, danger of his life, and offence against God Having done with the Apothecaries abuses relating chiefly to the Patients Health and Purse, and such as...
... Malagar a si Malagar a s a k k a y iy i aa ng g n Ta a T jo jo RWANDA RWANDA BURUNDI BURUNDI ku Lukuga Lu ga TTAANNZZAANNI IAA Ruzizi I Ruzizi I Lake Lake Lukenga Lukenga u ubu ub I I va NaNa ... Lualalba di Lu ab d Congo drainage basin gugu Map a Cha Ch ZAMBIA ZAMBIA DEMOCRATICREPUBLICOFTHE CONGO DEMOCRATICREPUBLICOFTHE CONGO Lualaba - 870’000 km2 Lualaba - 870’000 km2 Lake Tanganyika-Lukuga ... Hydrology and water resources of Africa; AQUASTAT, FAO; AQUASTAT, FAO; various maps and atlases various maps and atlases UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Europe 2010 UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Europe 2010 13 Another approach to...
... that America was probably not a part of Asia, and changed the geographical ideas ofthe time [12] THE COAST OF FLORIDA EXPLORED. What meantime had happened along the coast of North America? In ... Mas'sasoit, chief ofthe Wam-pano'ags, and of Canon'icus, chief ofthe Narragansetts, and learned their language In 1633 he returned to Salem, and was again made pastor ofa church [8] The fate ... Spain) to the Strait of Magellan The Pacific coast of America was explored (1513-1542) for Spain by Balboa part of Panama Magellan part ofthe southwest coast Pizarro (note, p 23) from Panama to Peru...
... by almost all the papal sovereigns of Europe A remarkable circumstance is related ofthe hopes and intentions ofthe Spaniards, in the event of success in the Armada A Spanish officer, who was ... gentleman At this stage ofthe examination, the lord chamberlain saw a man standing in a corner ofthe cellar, who stated that he was Percy's servant, and that he was left by his master in charge of ... merely to an attempt, on the part ofthe Romanists, at the commencement ofthe session, to obtain a toleration for their worship, and the relaxation of some ofthe penal laws Various attempts have...
... to the Athenians for the assistance which they had rendered them against the Thebans, the whole force of Plataea, amounting to 1000 heavy-armed men, marched to the assistance of their allies and ... abandoned the defence ofthe walls, and took refuge at the altar of Athena (Minerva) They were induced by the archon Megacles, one ofthe illustrious family ofthe Alcmaeonidae, to quit the altar ... by sea and by land A naval engagement took place at Lade a small island off Miletus, which decided the fate ofthe war The Samians deserted at the commencement ofthe battle, and the Ionian fleet...
... NDE15P15 89 (5¢-CCATATGAAGAAAGGAGCAGC-3¢) and Bam-LYS30 reverse (5¢-CGGGATCCTTAATCAATTTCAACTTC ATC-3¢), and the protrialysin cDNA cloned in pGEM-T Easy (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) as template [9] in ... protrialysin by PCR amplification The template was the same as above, and the reaction included oligonucleotides BAMH15P15 1000 (5¢-CGGATCCGCTGAATATGAACTTG-3¢) and ECOR13LYS (5¢-CGAATTCTTAATCAATTTCAACTTC-3¢) ... megistus saliva (Hemiptera ⁄ Triatominae) Acta Trop 61, 255–261 Amino R, Tanaka AS & Schenkman S (2001) Triapsin, an unusual activatable serine protease from the saliva ofthe hematophagous vector of...
... letters ofthe Greek alphabet, which are called alpha, beta There are languages that have never been put upon paper at all, such as many ofthe African languages, many in the South Sea Islands, and ... Toddy CHAPTER V 41 HUNGARIAN Hussar Sabre Shako Tokay MALAY Amuck Bamboo Bantam Caddy Cassowary Cockatoo Dugong Gamboge Gong Gutta-percha Mandarin Mango Orang-outang Rattan Sago Upas PERSIAN Awning ... Llama Mahogany Maize Manioc Moccasin Mustang Opossum Pampas Pemmican Potato Racoon Skunk Squaw Tapioca Tobacco Tomahawk Tomato Wigwam ARABIC (The word al means the Thus alcohol = the spirit.) Admiral...
... approximation to renounce the humanism ofthehistoryof art: death Resemblance as drama Two medieval treatises facing Vasari: the rent subject facing the man of humanism Thehistoryof art is ahistory ... of Vasarian academicism: triumphant ri` nascita recast in a certain notion ofthehistoryof art as rationalist humanism; the famous imitazione recast in a hierarchical table ofthe relations between ... mousetraps in the Merode Altarpiece.2 Thanks to Panofsky, we are aware that the very transparence ofa window, in the context of an Annunciation, can serve as a vehicle for the most resistant of theological...
... arrest and the transfer of perpetrators of crimes of sexual violence On January 17, 2008, the European parliament adopted a resolution that strongly condemns the use of rape as a weapon of war, ... classified sexual violence as a human rights violation In 1997, after allegations of serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law committed by the AFDL against Rwandan refugees, the ... the DRC after the fall ofthe Mobutu regime in 1997: regional, national, and inter-tribal.8 As alliances have shifted, the lines between them are not clearly drawn, as alliances shifted and the...
... Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, the Canadas and Acadia [Footnote: As we shall see hereafter, the English at this time clung to a narrow strip along the Atlantic coast.] In 1688 it had a population ... fifteen tons—and ascended the St Lawrence on an exploring tour At Hochelaga all was changed The Indian town had vanished, and not a trace remained ofthe savage population which Cartier saw there seventy ... Florida, and a map of Henry II gives that name to all North America.] The Spanish explorers had traversed a large portion ofthe present Southern States, and ofthe Pacific coast All this vast...