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World Bank
A Dictionary of Business and Management
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World Bank The name by which the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development combined with its affiliates, the
International Development Association and the
International Finance Corporation, is known.
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The Nations Of The World
Map from: Maps.com Digital Earth Maps; 1/1/1999; 464 words
; 00-00-0000 Map of The Nations Of The World South Atlantic Ocean South Pacific Ocean North Pacific Ocean...Zemlya Franz Josef Land Svalbard (Nor.) Jan Mayen (Nor.) Banks Island Victoria Island Baffin Island Ellesmere Island Island...
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OBITUARIES
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/19/1999; 700+ words
; ...government in Germany after World War II. She was an interpreter...who worked at the National Bank of Washington in the 1950s and 1960s and at Riggs Bank in the 1970s, died Jan...in the Marine Corps during World War II. He was a member of...
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TODAY'S HOROSCOPE
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/10/1999; ; 655 words
; ...still where laurels are concerned. Push ahead, there are more worlds to conquer. Communicate with individual in another land. Love...repairs, correct measurements, count your change and check bank account figures. No one deliberately cheats, but can be careless...
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MILWAUKEE & CHICAGO; Embracing the Windy City
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...respected economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, noted in his blog recently...especially when selling Milwaukee to the world. For all its charm, Milwaukee isn't...Connor, executive director of the group World Business Chicago, put it: "There no...
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A U.S. Government Hedge Fund?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/10/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...somewhat similar to what investment banks and hedge funds say when regulators...president of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, Alfred A. DelliBovi...Washington.) The Federal Home Loan Bank system might have meandered along unnoticed by most of the world if one of its friends in ...
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Letters to the editor
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 1/15/2007; 700+ words
; ...on the ground equals winning the war. World War II was the last war we won, a war...again, we will lose unless we revert to World War II tactics. MATTHEW M. O'CONNELL...misinterpretation of sentencing guidelines in the bank fraud decision. Bloodied but unbowed in...
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Bush should resign from presidency
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...never apologized for having the worst math since Westmoreland, and he managed to get promoted to the presidency of the World Bank. Cheney is of course still the vice president, mumbling this fall that "we would do exactly the same thing" in Iraq...
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Utahns honor King's legacy
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...people who marked the holiday at the Utah Food Bank, delivering 200 boxes of food to elderly...If we all just help out a little bit, the world would be a better place," he said. At the Food Bank, Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson welcomed...
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Mary Jane Capretti-Braunber ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...Capretti-Braunberg, 42, a bank manager, died of cancer Jan...for about 17 years at American Bank in Rockville and spent much...Navy Department, and during World War II he was a naval aviation...National Airport for the old Trans World Airlines as a draftsman. For...
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Lambert to replace Johnson at OKC Memorial Trust
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 5/17/2001; ; 515 words
; ...the operations of this memorial, and the world-class way the memorial has been built...Industries and assistant vice president of the Bank of Oklahoma. Prior to committing to serve...Oklahomans have become known around the world." "In my lifetime, I have never witnessed...
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Muhammad Yunus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...not qualify for conventional bank loans, creating what has become...establishment of the Grameen Bank [Bengali,=rural or village...1980s and 90s, the Grameen Bank has since become self-supporting...countries, allowing some of the world's most improverished people...
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Robert Bruce Zoellick
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...number of nations and represented the United States in World Trade Organization talks, but was unsuccessful in...Sachs Group. Zoellick was appointed president of the World Bank ( International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ) in 2007, succeeding...
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Paul Dundes Wolfowitz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), where he promoted debt...sought to reduce the misuse of World Bank loans by corrupt government...noncollegial managerial style at the World Bank, and when it was revealed...
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Treaty of Versailles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...prompt French payment). In World War I The most important treaty...peace treaties that terminated World War I. The other four (for...equal period; and the right bank of the Rhine was to be permanently...Six Months That Changed the World (2002).
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Cyrus Roberts Vance
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...LL.B., 1942). After seeing action in the Navy during World War II, Vance practiced law, becoming a respected international...organizations, and was chairman (1988-1990) of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Bibliography: See his memoirs, Hard Choices...
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