... in
fosfomycin binding: K22 and R120. To investigate the role
of these residues, we have generated the K22V, K22E, K22R
and R120K single mutant proteins as well as the K22V/
R120K and K22V/R120V double ... on
the structure reported in [11]).
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Role of K22 and R120 in the covalent binding o...
... in China in the fourth decade of the nineteenth century
and of the Opium War that they brought onan account that begins with opium, of course, and never lets
opium go, but allows other interests ... because
opium leads directly to the book's subject, which isI draw upon the original prefacewesterners in China
in the early decades of...
... deeper into the latest science of the modern middle- aged brain, I found not bad
news but good.
As it turns out, the brain in middle age has another story to tell that’s quite the opposite of the one
I’d ... describe these
stressors, they often talk in terms of meeting the challenge.” Summing up, Harvard’s Ronald Kessler,
a director of the middle- aged survey...
... of the firm, which the Treasury was more than
willing to recognize.
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When the transaction was finally complete, the firm had more than
doubled the ... by events in the early 19 30s.
The partnerships emerging from the turmoil of the Depression
and World War II again led Wall Street in the 19 50s when the...
... because they had discovered
that the South had greater potential for profit. They remained in
Alabama until 1846, when the brothers opened a Manhattan store on
William Street. Other members of the ... dominate the
“Our Crowd”: The Seligmans, Lehman Brothers, and Kuhn Loeb
57
serious effect on their finances, and they survived the crisis intact. At
the height of the panic, Jo...
... perched at the top of the Wall Street tree.
The great irony for many prestigious firms was that although their
prowess in the market was never doubted, their capital was limited.
Some of the activities ... that the
Browns owned the works that provided boilers and iron for the line
and that was the real source of their interest along with the subsidy.
They were challe...
... so the new law forced them out
of the commercial banking business while the commercial banks
divested their securities affiliates. The Wall Street revolution was com-
plete, and Brown Brothers ... The court reversed the lower-
court decision and ordered the Belmonts to repay the money. At the
time, the amount was $25 ,43 8.
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But similar cases were in the
pipeline...
... falling behind the times on Wall Street and would soon
be in trouble.
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the market. Until Dillon took over, the Dodge line was in that cate-
gory. But changes in the cars’ ... became entrapped in the same predicament in which
the other small but influential Wall Street firms found themselves in
the 1 950 s and 1960s. Its capital was not in...
... operation
followed the successful selling of the 6 percent bonds, known as the
5-20s, by Jay Cooke in the spring of the same year, 1 863 . The friend-
ship with the Ketchums was put under further strain ... funds to branch out into other endeavors. By 1880, he was the
most prominent businessman in the entire region, but the Northern
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was...
... reputations lingered. The average man in the street
remembered the stories about the great bankers of the past and the
wealth they had accumulated. The generation before the Second
World War was ... attempting to quote the
Bible, referred to money as the root of all evil. Morgan then inter-
rupted him with the correct quote: The Bible doesn’t say money. ’
It says...
... Co.,
the food processor. The issue landed the firm squarely in the middle
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banks, which would grant them to homeowners and then hold them
on their books until they were ... at the time, and unlike the
third generation of many Jewish Wall Streeters, he had not attended
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ties in 1927. He made certain that the firm...
... the rest of the Street,
Goldman waited for better days. Then its prospects brightened con-
siderably during the 195 0s. One of Weinberg’s greatest coups in the
195 0s was the restructuring of the ... the trial con-
cluded and the Eisenhower bull market gained momentum, earning
the money back would be easy.
Like most other successful Wall Street firms, Goldman did lit...
... 104 –5, 106 ; Rothschilds
and, 32, 81–82, 97 100 , 101 –2, 103 , 104 ,
106 , 107 , 109 10, 111, 113; social status
and lavish living, 3, 101 , 103 –4; Union
sympathies, 102
Belmont, August, Jr., 100 , 106 ; ... Lazard’s prowess in cobbling together companies through
merger and then selling them, the economics of Wall Street in the
1960s worked against the firm. In the...
... Those who succeed consistently in the long run are those
who make the effort and take the time to learn the skills re-
quired to achieve lasting success. They apply these lessons in the
real world, ... B
OPTION EXCHANGES, OPTION
BROKERS, OPTION SYMBOLS,
AND OPTION VOLUME
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Exchanges
Options are traded at each of the exchanges listed in Tables B.1
and B.2.
Table...
... () and (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap) Game
Theory: A critical text ().
The Global Minotaur
America, the True Origins
of the Financial Crisis and the
Future of the World Economy
Yanis Varoufakis
Zed ... characteristic of the global polit-
ical economy was the reversal of the ow of trade and capital
surpluses between the United...