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  • set economic system, such as a change in interest rates, are believed to be ... quot; fiscal spending and future interest rates. In effect, Friedman ...
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  • "there is a remarkable psychological interest in love, a more tangible ... escape from his desires. With its genuine interest in the psychological phenomenon ...
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  • "The Birds," give reign to her interest in the supernatural. ... mother had been Cornish no doubt added to her interest. ...
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  • till the time of Ezra the national interest is predominant. Here it ... there was a lull in the general Messianic interest (about 250-200 B.C.E.), ...
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  • receded in favor of a growing interest in English, and Lamartine ... of Pushkin and Byron. He also took a keen interest in Russian history and medieval ...
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  • a member of the Ku Klux Klan. His chief interest was in winning, and he could ... thing I know and can talk about. My only interest." ...
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  • Münsterberg had a strong interest in mental illness. He did not, ... of economic opinions and debatable … interest.Making hte Modern World ...
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  • composer Edvard Grieg. Grieg had a longstanding interest in the folk songs of his native Norway, and Grainger developed a particular interest in recording ...
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  • In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, interest shifted ... and how fast they react. Measurements of interest include reactions in the ...
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  • George also tried to explain the nature of interest and profit. He wrote: inert matter into different shapes, that interest would be but the robbery ...
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  • statute furthers no legitimate state interest which can justify its intrusion into the personal and private life of the individual." Justice ...
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  • of responsibility towards a rich moral interest, and that works of art with ... great novelists show an intense moral interest in life, and that this moral ...
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  • view, a balance had to exist between self interest and sympathy, with sympathy ... university in 1746, having abandoned any interest in becoming a clergyman ...
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  • family business. Chase showed an early interest in art, copying profiles ... Chase's talent elicited the interest of wealthy St. Louis collectors ...
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  • and taught classes that reawakened an interest in Plato and loosened the ... Italian scholars. His work reawakened an interest in Plato and loosened the ...
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  • of its collection developed a keen interest in literature. When he was ... from New Hampshire who had taken interest in the phenomena of lighter ...
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  • 25, 1884. As a child he showed a great interest in biology, despite being ... University in Cleveland, Ohio. His interest in anthropology was evoked ...
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  • strictly prohibited." Her procedural interest in the church was echoed ... he also would look at it with special interest, kissing it, and often taking ...
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  • artistic expression and strove to instill interest in art in other people. ... practical value. She then shifted her interest toward joining her fellow ...
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  • ===Interest in refugees=== In 1949, he met an official of the United Nations working with refugees, and began to realize the scale of what was ...
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  • ===Places of interest=== street market. Other buildings and sites of interest include: ...
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  • Queen Regent. Afonso exhibited little interest in ruling and through the ... used to agree boundaries and spheres of interest among the world powers at ...
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  • to California and acquired a one-third interest in the company that later ... of his business, and bought a controlling interest in the Pacific Western Oil ...
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  • meaning “inkblot,” because of his interest in Klecksography during ... “inkblot,” because of his childhood interest in Klecksography, the making ...
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  • rise of animal cognition as an area of interest, the interpretation of his ... and carried out some research of local interest in those fields. However ...
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  • ==Preventing conflicts of interest, corruption, and collusion== In an era of increasing militarization and congressional corruption, serious reform ...
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  • whose writings in the 1920s sparked a surge of interest in the subject of space flight. He was among the first to write about the use of liquid propellants ...
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  • Roebuck to leave the company. He placed his interest in the company in the hands of Sears who, in turn, offered that half of the company to Aaron Nussbaum ...
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  • === Interest in the discipline === throwing 100 m has become normal, and interest in this category has declined ...
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  • Though his prime subject of interest was Mathematics, most ambitious ... Salam wanted to spread interest in the sciences in developing nations ...
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  • other foods, such as ice cream. Apart from its interest as a dessert fruit, the strawberry draws interest due to the peculiarities of its structure ...
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  • a pharmacist, encouraged his son's interest in natural history. At that ... to support him, and his colleagues lost interest in his lonely battle. Dubois ...
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  • ===Early rail interest=== Vanderbilt's involvement with early railroad development led him into being involved in one of America's earliest ...
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  • free trade, and no restrictions on interest rates. He supported inheritance ... High Court, where he listened with great interest to the judgments of Chief ...
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  • its bulk, Domesday contains entries of interest concerning most of the towns ... The information of most general interest found in the great record ...
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  • he was working on Pausanias, Frazer’s interest in social anthropology was ... mythology or religion, but he also evoked interest in forgotten, distant, and ...
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  • At a very early age, Rossetti showed a strong interest in literature. Like all his siblings, he aspired in his youth to be a poet. Rossetti, ...
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  • Hitler's sexuality has attracted interest. At times, he appeared almost ... royal families. Braun had a lifelong interest in photography and their ...
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  • A defining aspect of late Romanticism was an profound interest in ... quot; and there was a particular interest in operas of composers from ...
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  • readily sacrifices his personal interest to the collective interest. This is an aptitude very contrary to his nature, and or which a man is scarcely ...
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  • ==Sites of interest== of tourists every year. Buildings of interest, many of which blend local ...
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  • was largely forgotten until a revival of interest on the eve of the 250th ... as a student, developing a particular interest in Dante Alighieri and in ...
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  • ==Places of interest== [[Image:Byblos Castle.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Crusader fort]] [[Image:Byblos Historic Quarter.jpg|thumb|220px|Byblos historic ...
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  • Debt is a problem if the interest payments are greater than the debtor ... concealment of assets, conflicts of interest, false claims, and fee fixing ...
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  • to work for Harper's. Though his interest in depicting natural light ... where he rekindled his boyhood interest in the sea, and painted ...
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  • This article focuses on the three issues of central philosophical interest to the Cartesians. It does not discuss one of the major points of ...
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  • to his failing health, Whittier began to show an interest in history, as he had in the beginnings of his poetry. The publication of Lays of My Home ...
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  • partial compensation for the lack of interest paid on member banks' ... that there is political pressure to keep interest rates low. Low interest ...
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  • between topics of socio-political and literary interest, the anonymous contributors held the interest of the educated classes in Italy, introducing novel ...
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  • Inc. from Black, giving them the controlling interest in the newspaper group. They then launched a takeover bid for the rest of the group, valuing ...
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  • (PSA) are messages in the public interest disseminated without charge ... the social impact of advertising, special interest groups, such as Mediawatch ...
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  • given there, but also took a keen interest in history and philosophy ... turned to one of his original fields of interest, mechanics. He wrote an ...
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  • As his interest in the Irish nationalist cause grew, O'Casey ... along and suffered from falling public interest and box office returns. ...
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  • inscriptions. With all this, his interest increasingly turned to the field of comparative religion. He used correspondence with his numerous ...
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  • Governor of Bombay, he took a particular interest in education, founding a ... can claim a monopoly of what is of value, interest and benefit to the flourishing ...
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  • Venn's interest turned towards history and in 1888 donated his ... Venn's main area of interest was logic, and he published three ...
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  • an innovative photographer, Coburn's interest turned to the spiritual ... studies, foregoing photography as his primary interest. ...
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  • he was a notable voice for northern interest and embraced a style of ... knit together to common history, common interest and common ideas, the things ...
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  • time-dependent theory of capital and interest. the normal rate of business profit is the interest rate. Capitalists save money ...
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  • in Holland in 1643, where he developed an interest in anatomy. Through an English ... for the rest of his life. His primary interest became Ireland’s prosperity ...
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  • doctoral studies. His initial subject of interest was philosophy, but he soon ... *Knight, Frank H. 1936. The quantity of capital and the rate of interest ...
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  • in Milwaukee, where he developed his interest for science. He found schoolwork ... with computer programs, which led to his interest in computer simulation of ...
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  • conflict with the requirements of self interest. A person’s self interest ... idea of duty as radically opposed to self interest is largely absent from ancient ...
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  • of the introduction of baseball, and new interest in team sports in general ... This was only reasonable, since reader-interest surveys rated certain features ...
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  • ==Sites of interest== The major Aksumite monuments in the town are stelae; the largest number lie in the Northern Stelae Park, ranging up to the ...
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  • to Cao Yu are of fundamentally historical interest and were famed in China ... elements. There was a resurgence of interest in The Wilderness in 1980 ...
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  • In 1888, control of the emerging British "sphere of interest ... nominated by legally established special interest groups [women 79, army 10 ...
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  • substantially to the emphasis on self-interest as a core human value (without ... and broadly accepted. While he had an interest in all the sciences, Spencer ...
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  • centuries there was a great burst of interest in and further development ... on many matters, they all shared an interest in science and deep skepticism ...
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  • unparalled in his era in literary merit, interest, and value, not even by ... is reducible to the motive of self-interest." But though not absolutely ...
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  • ==Places of interest== [[Image:Yokohama MinatoMirai21.jpg|thumb|right ... The places of interest are mainly around the historic port area of ...
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  • religious studies portrayed a particular interest in the non-theoretical dimension ... in 1927, Heidegger evidenced a strong interest in the analogy between mystical ...
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  • of bad management. Proudhon continued his interest in writing, developing a ... ===Interest in politics=== The scholarship enabled Proudhon to study ...
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  • ==Places of interest== [[Image:Stamp Bechuanaland Protectorate 1938 ... Sights of interest in Gaborone include: * The Main Mall, which is the ...
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  • largest and most sophisticated political interest group ever organized within ... to the Confucian ideal represented the public interest. ...
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  • English professor with a then-unorthodox interest in indigenous folk music ... Demonstrating serious interest and respect for the music of blacks ...
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  • this period, Wigner began to develop an interest in mathematical problems ... with such a mystery." He developed interest in the Vedanta philosophy ...
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  • ==Places of interest== The ruins of Carthage, the old capital of the ... of Roman and other antiquities of interest from Ancient Greece, Tunisia ...
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  • While still studying, he developed an interest in astronomy, and was friendly ... 1,000 pounds to the Royal Society, the interest from which was to be applied ...
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  • Cambridge Apostles and initially took an interest in the natural science “tripos ... design in the 1920s. A revival of interest in Omega designs in the ...
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  • As a young boy Breuil showed an interest in entomology and zoology, and wanted to study medicine. However his poor health and strong faith in ...
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  • Durkheim himself, after a brief period of interest in Catholicism, turned away ... on literary style and their lack of interest in what he considered important ...
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  • private sector—through, for example, interest rates, taxation, and public ... in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in ...
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  • Their mother, Rachel encouraged their interest in writing and art. ... In spite of his great interest in Asian culture, Arthur Waley never ...
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  • verse, poetry which required a child-like interest, was produced by Edward ... part of Victorian literature with an interest in both classical literature ...
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  • ==Places of interest== [[Image:derbent gate2.jpg|thumb|right|250px ... Derbent has numerous ancient structures of interest. * To the south ...
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  • before they disappeared. This led to his interest in the inter-connections ... particularly notable. Sapir’s sphere of interest widened from solely linguistics ...
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  • and dramatic representation. He lacked an interest in historical culture, even ... The intense public interest the work aroused in its commencement had ...
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  • 1940s through a more Catholic-oriented interest in the significance of the ... to become a mining engineer. Auden's interest in the mining country of ...
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  • very likely that this is where Howard’s interest in Egyptology began.Audrey ... "King Tut," recreated an interest in the glories of ancient ...
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  • greedy. Because they also lent money at interest to middle-class Christians ... a decline in national income or a rise in interest rates, the court Jews often ...
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  • for local banks when they manipulate interest rates and buy and lend out ... of the production of future assets. Interest attached to the loan means ...
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  • ethical grounds, rather than pure self-interest. It was widely disseminated ... This mixture of mutual interests versus national interest ultimately ...
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  • exile. These recordings are of special interest for the performance practices ... the composer would by itself add great interest to them (in most of these ...
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  • about Jacob’s experiences and to solicit her interest. Though Stowe did express interest, she wanted to use Jacob’s material as a supplement to ...
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  • Isidore was a merchant, but Seraphim had little interest in business. Instead, he began a life that was very devout to the Orthodox Church at a young ...
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  • of banking suspended, the completely interest-free loans can have arbitrarily ... of Grameen Bank: the high rate of interest that the bank demands from ...
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  • meetings for learned societies or interest groups might also take place. ... by a group of researchers with a common interest. Larger meetings may be ...
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  • Unraveling the mystery of the ribozyme not only has scientific interest ... exist in living organisms, there has been interest in the study of new synthetic ...
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  • a dinosaur ever found, and sparked great interest in the new field of paleontology ... discoveries in New Jersey were of intense interest. He visited Cope, whom he ...
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