1971 - Decimal currency is introduced.1973 - The United Kingdom joins the European Economic Community (EEC)1974 - Miners strike brings down Heath Government. Harold Wilson returns as Prime Minister.1976 - Concorde begins first supersonic trans-Atlantic flights1977 - Celebration of the Silver ...
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Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded China's long-term local currency and foreign currency issuer ratings from Aa3 to A1 but changed the outlook from "negative" to "stable," a move experts said showed apparent miscalculations. China dismisses Moody's downgrade as "inappropriate" Chi...
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The Chinese international students are, therefore, inevitably engulfed into the neoliberal machinery of global inequality reproduction through their fee-paying to the higher-ranked global universities and use of symbolic currency bestowed by these foreign degrees to increase their competitiveness in labour ...
Monetary amounts in the range of one to two major currency units are often spoken differently. In AmE one may say "a dollar fifty" or "a pound eighty" whereas in BrE these amounts would be expressed "one dollar fifty" and "one pound eighty". For amounts over a dollar, an American ...
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(=therighttobuya particularamountofshares,currencyetc in thefuture) expires, it can no longer beEXERCISED(=it is no longerpossibleto buy the shares, currency etc that itrelatesto)When the October options expire, the clearing house for the market will create a new series of options for July ...
currency deposits and commodities, issued or guaranteed by any company wherever incorporated, or by any government, sovereign, ruler, commissioners, public body or authority, supreme, municipal, local or otherwise, by original subscription, tender, purchase, exchange, underwriting, participation in ...