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insider trading
insider trading stock market transactions made with knowledge of nonpublic information about corporate activity. In the United States, it has been illegal since 1934. The Securities and Exchange Commission regards it as unfair to investors who are not privy to such information. Several insider tr... Read more
automated teller machine
automated teller machine (ATM), device used by bank customers to process account transactions. Typically, a user inserts into the ATM a special plastic card that is encoded with information on a magnetic strip. The strip contains an identification code that is transmitted to the bank's central comp... Read more
data processing
data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a business. In automatic or electronic data processing the ... Read more
bookkeeping
bookkeeping maintenance of systematic and convenient records of money transactions in order to show the condition of a business enterprise. The essential purpose of bookkeeping is to reveal the amounts and sources of the losses and profits for any given period. Proper bookkeeping should also reveal... Read more
Timothy Dexter
Timothy Dexter 1747-1806, American merchant and eccentric, b. Malden, Mass. He gained a fortune from the American Revolution by buying up depreciated certificates of indebtedness that were afterward reclaimed at full value. He also gained money by shrewd mercantile transactions. He was styled "Lo... Read more
William Dunbar
William Dunbar 1749-1810, American scientist in the old Southwest, b. near Elgin, Scotland. He came to America in 1771. Commissioned by President Jefferson to investigate the Ouachita and Red River areas, he wrote the first scientific account of the mineral wells at Hot Springs, Ark. Dunbar set up ... Read more
Jacob Tonson
Jacob Tonson , 1656?-1736, English publisher. He and his brother Richard purchased the publication rights to Milton's Paradise Lost, a transaction later claimed as the firm's most profitable. With John Dryden he published a series of miscellany volumes (6 vol., 1684-1709), edited by Dryden and oft... Read more
Ems dispatch
Ems dispatch 1870, communication between King William of Prussia (later German Emperor William I) and his premier, Otto von Bismarck. In June, 1870, the throne of Spain was offered to Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, a relative of King William. Leopold at first accepted the candidacy, bu... Read more
fiduciary
fiduciary , in law, a person who is obliged to discharge faithfully a responsibility of trust toward another. Among the common fiduciary relationships are guardian to ward, parent to child, lawyer to client, corporate director to corporation, trustee to trust , and business partner to business part... Read more
Johann Reinhold Forster
Johann Reinhold Forster 1729-98, German naturalist and teacher. His Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1772-73) on zoology, ornithology, and ichthyology established him as one of the earliest authorities on North American zoology. Forster accompanied Capt. James Cook on his second v... Read more

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Empiricism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...to empirical facts as held by most empiricists (and by modern culture generally). Dewey's subject-object transactionalism avoids the subject-object dichotomy. This more "generous empiricism" has influenced such thinkers as Henry...

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Jesus and the Reign of God.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 5/11/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...aims his book at those who have reduced the gospel to "transactionalism" (what can also be called "works righteousness...so much explored as it is used--to triumph over the "transactionalism" of his counselees and review partners. In tone and vocabulary...
The Mystery of Christ ... and Why We Don't Get It.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 5/11/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...aims his book at those who have reduced the gospel to "transactionalism" (what can also be called "works righteousness...so much explored as it is used--to triumph over the "transactionalism" of his counselees and review partners. In tone and vocabulary...
God the Redeemer: A Theology of the Gospel.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 5/11/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...aims his book at those who have reduced the gospel to "transactionalism" (what can also be called "works righteousness...so much explored as it is used--to triumph over the "transactionalism" of his counselees and review partners. In tone and vocabulary...
Enquete sur la parente.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...challenges to jurisprudential approaches by stressing the circulation of people and goods. This opens the way to the transactionalism of F. Barth and J. Cuisenier, both working on Middle Eastern societies with a high rate of close-kin marriages...
Vectors of witchcraft: Object transactions and the materialization of memory in Niger
Magazine article from: Anthropological Quarterly; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...of soap and perfume received by new mothers at their infants' naming ceremonies all exemplify the deeply rooted transactionalism of Mawri society. While cloth once figured prominently in marriage ceremonies-to reassert symbolically the creation...
The Cognition of Geographic Space.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...marriage of broad conceptual ideas with specific theories through the development of a model with aims to advance transactionalism by including a number of theories concerning the underlying mental processes that govern spatial thought and behavior...
Rethinking Britain and Europe; plurality elections, party management and British policy on European integration.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 533 words ; ...against other explanations for British policy towards Europe, including those of history/cultural values, liberalism, and transactionalism. Distributed in the US by Palgrave. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
Revolution, American Style: The 1960s and Beyond. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...empty social existence provides little collective meaning. In a nutshell, possessive individualism, avaricious transactionalism, aggrandized acquisitiveness, and voracious consumerism dominate American society. Goldstene, who recently retired...
Just a Number After All
Magazine article from: T + D; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...partnership, but it's really paternalism. Similarly, they might have talked mutual influence, but it's really transactionalism." Klein suggests that traditionalists might be taken for granted with their experience and adaptability, but...
Community-Identity Construction in Galatians
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...he uses, including an "eclectic" theory of ethnic identity that draws on primordialism, instrumentalism, and transactionalism. In chap. 2, he gives a history of the Mukyokai, explaining their rejection of institutional Christianity and...