... Speakers of Spanish and Catalan 90 Portuguese speakers 113 Greek speakers 129 Russian speakers 145 Polish speakers 162 Farsi speakers 179 Arabic speakers 195 Turkish speakers 214 Speakers of South ... me a scissor? *The police is looking for him Possessive `s German has an equivalent of the English possessive 's structure, but it is mostly used with names In other cases von ( = of ) is generally ... half, sword, psychiatrist, etc Stress Dutch and English stress patterns in words and sentences are quite similar There are some problems, though Dutch compounds regularly have stress on the ®rst...
... and supervision How are banks doing? Suggestions for future steps Restricted Why all care for Chinas financial reform? Chinas outstanding growth performance justifies optimism And yet, such ... the costs • Distribution of costs not very transparent Restricted a Restructuring (con’t) Even larger disposal of bad assets: NPLs transferred to Asset Management Companies (AMC): – In first wave, ... As s tandards • lig htly le ss than 10% o f to tal as s e ts are NPLs ) S 12 Restricted How are banks doing? (cont’) Efficiency slightly lower than international standards but not a big issue...
... extinguishers), Foam systems (which may include some wet chemical systems and some miscoded portable extinguishers), and Halogen systems (which may include some wet chemical systems and some miscoded ... pipe sprinklers, 26% for dry (or possibly wet) chemical systems, 17% for carbon dioxide systems, 3% for foam systems, and 4% for halogen systems For major property classes and sprinklers, the estimated ... systems, 79% for carbon dioxide systems, 81% for foam systems, and 88% for halogen systems (Wet chemical systems may be included with dry chemical systems or with other special hazard systems.)...
... affairs, and policy affecting investors and business people Titles are written by wellknown practitioners, BLOOMBERG NEWS® reporters and columnists, andother leading authorities and journalists ... that serves both sovereign wishes as well as those of the market But this is not a book only about Chinas triumphs The good-news story also comes with a dark side What CDB has wrought also has ... secure access for its stateowned oil companies to long-term supply in the competitive global oil market as Chinas demand continues to rise It has also been good business for a host of Chinese...
... effectiveness of the pollution levy in reducing environmental effluents Our first set of regressions addresses this objective and it also provides estimates (instruments) for the endogenous inputs to ... equation fits are satisfactory and most coefficients satisfy expectations We examined these regressions (and the two regressions for predicting endogenous factors of production) for heteroskedasticity ... technologies and increasing recovery and re-use of some environmental wastes The general statistical insignificance of the price terms leaves us uncertain about the assessment of these factors Time has...
... dollars conduct in Chinas economy, resulting in massive foreign exchange reserves l This figure shows us the relationship between Chinas foreign exchange reserves and holdings of U .S Securities ... markets & more CNY payments u Sino-US strong dialogue promotes consensus To ask US government to provide credible assurances of US Treasuries Hook its bonds yield with inflation-indexed against ... inside and outside participants Process CNY cross-border payment and settlement business The first phase: Operate on October 8, 2015 ² Chinas gold acquisition and the rising roll of Shanghai...
... special locations Where utility power supply systems and consumers’ installations form a TT earthed system, the governing standards impose the use of RCDs to ensure the protection of persons 1.3 Protection ... voltage surge arrester is installed upstream of the distribution board (to protect sensitive electronic equipment such as microprocessors, videocassette recorders, TV sets, electronic cash registers, ... Medical locations TT or TNS Protection by Group : 30 mA RCDs Hospitalization and similar (section 710) Exhibitions, shows and TT or TN -S systems 4x Protection by stands (section 711) 30 mA RCDs...
... grocery stores now includes supercenters, drug stores, warehouse clubs, convenience stores, dollar stores, and limited assortment stores, as well as fast-food and traditional restaurants As Stew ... gives the customer immediacy, while saving the retailer unnecessary shipping costs See Table 2.1 for examples of causes and examples of bad costs TABLE 2.1 Causes and Examples of Bad Costs Causes ... stores with insufficient parking all have high access costs Warehouse clubs have direct dollar outlay access costs in terms of membership fees Access costs can be measured in terms of membership...
... and Paper and Lead in Soil at Mining Sites i Abstract This paper discusses EPA s acquisition and use of science in addressing dioxins (and other organochlorines) from the pulp and paper industry ... regulatory science issues, and others regarding EPA s acquisition and use of science The case studies also incorporate many comments and insights from these interviewees In all instances, interviewees ... waters is the primary focus of this case study The proposal was submitted as a combined set of water effluent limitations and standards and national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants...
... mamma was sitting She was evidently oppressed by her isolation, and she was longing to express herself, to share her impressions with some one, to open her heart "He 's gone," she muttered, seeing ... a minute, sir, in a minute," says Pelageya She rushes out of the hut, and soon afterwards comes back with a bit of candle Yefim 's cheeks are rosy and his eyes are shining, and there is a peculiar ... shadows are set in motion, forcing themselves on Varka 's fixed, half-open eyes, and in her half slumbering brain are fashioned into misty visions She sees dark clouds chasing one another over the sky,...
... priori; and its synthesis of intuitions, conforming as it does to the categories, must be the transcendental synthesis of imagination This synthesis is an action of the understanding on the sensibility; ... material such as how the subject and predicate terms were “distributed” in the premises, so as to block syllogisms such as “Socrates is white, white is a color, therefore Socrates is a color.” ... judgments push toward a conception of the world as one substance that necessarily manifests itself to judging agents as a set of causal relationships holding among the various “accidents” of the substance...
... [Fr.] mother Missa solemnis [L.] High Mass (Roman Catholic) mitzvah [Heb.] blessing; commandment n’est-ce pas? [Fr.] Isn’t it so? nicht wahr? [Ger.] Isn’t it so? nil desperandum [L.] “never desperate”—Horace ... -lith, -lithic stone (batholith, neolithic) -logy study of (biology) Prefixes and Suffixes 377 Prefix/Suffix Meaning/Usage -lysis destruction; dissolving; loosening; dissolution (analysis) macro- ... semiannually) sub- under; beneath; below (subhuman); of lower rank than; inferior (subordinate); to a lesser degree (subpar); near; almost (substitute) suf- same as sub- before f sym- same as...
... patois word labrish means not only gossip and jokes, but also songs and nostalgic memories of school False friends Those who learn languages other than their own will sometimes come across words ... you If a) is said first, then b) is the reply and then c) may be used If b) is said first, then c) is obligatory hashhashin (Arabic) one who smokes or chews hashish; came to mean assassin manu operare ... (Danish) granny glasses rash (Arabic) skirt worn under a sleeveless smock alyaska (Russian) anorak or moon-boots hachimaki ( Japanese) headbands worn by males to encourage concentration and effort...
... you,' and Miss Fulton laid her white fingers on her cheeks and smiled her sleepy smile Harry smiled too, and he whispered: 'Tomorrow,' and with her eyelids Miss Fulton said: 'Yes.' 'Here it is,' said ... was impossible not to laugh at her And her little sister, Else, wore a long white dress and a pair of little boy 's boots But Else looked strange all the time She was small and thin, with very short ... minutes.' They heard him hurry up the stairs Bertha smiled, she knew how Harry liked to be always busy She liked his enthusiasm and his love of fighting To other people he sometimes seemed strange,...
... Psychological Disorders Alzheimer s Disease andOther Dementias Psychological Disorders Addiction Alzheimer s Disease andOther Dementias Anxiety Disorders Child Abuse and Stress Disorders Depression ... embarrassment, or single paraphasic expressions (milk pourer instead of cup) sometimes one observes that she is completely at a loss of words She clearly does not grasp some questions, and it seems ... feelings, vision problems, etc Degenerative diseases like Huntington s disease or other rare, usually genetically transmitted diseases may also cause dementia in adolescents This illness destroys...
... of Scottish savers to make deposit with British branches of Australian banks, and in the willingness of British investors ….to place deposits with Argentine banks” (p 9) They also note the strict ... laid BANK INTEGRATION AND B USINESS VOLATILITY IN U .S STATES The United States once had essentially fifty little banking systems, one per state The U .S banking system is now much more national, ... when Alaska, Massachusetts, and New York passed similar laws.2 Other states followed suit, and by 1992, all but one state (Hawaii) allowed reciprocal entry.3 This state-level deregulation was codified...
... items covered by federal WEQ standards or establish local standards for items not covered.84 The development of these standards is similar to the standards in the United States The EPA sets treatment ... governments may create local standards for items not covered by the WEQ standards and must report their standards to the State Council.80 Using the WEQ standards and the country s economic and technological ... Discharge Permit Systems.51 Under these different systems, permits have been issued in increasing numbers In 1996, over forty thousand permits were issued in the cities that implemented a system.52...