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- 1431: Report On The Costs And Benefi
- ... depositors and borrowers because: a) their low management cost (due to their less complicated specialist business); b) no requirements to pay dividends; c) low capital requirements due to the low risk nature of their assets; d) because the banks tended to subsidise their money transmission service by their deposit accounts, which lessens their ability to compete in the savings market. 3) The plc becomes open to possible take-over bids 4 ... Executive of the Bradford & Bingley argues The one off benefit of plc conversion is here today, gone tomorrow. The higher savings rates and lower loan rates of mutuality are for life not just for flotation day . Mr Rodrigues points out mutuals don t have to consider the demands of shareholders - particularly for high dividends or share price growth so profits can go to members - via better interest rates on savings accounts ... of them are mutual. In recent months, there has been a rush of new entrants to the banking arena that offer better deals than the mutuals and established high street banks. Insurer, Legal & General (60 Day Notice Minimum £2500 7.65%) and supermarket, Safeway (Instant Access Minimum £1000 7.3%) (Appendix 1), for example, both offer excellent interest rates on savings accounts. Equally, Scottish Widows mortgage products are very cheap. ...
- 1432: The Count Of Monte Cristo
- ... story. Dantes' enemies used the rivalry between the two parties in order to convince the Royalists that Edmond is a Bonapartist, therefore it is the basis for his arrest and inevitable captivity in the Chateau D'If.. Basic Plot: The Count of Monte Cristo is a story about a sailor, Edmond Dantes, who was betrayed during the prime of his life and career by the jealousy of his friends. His shipmate ... to Edmond. Danglars and Ferdinand wrote a letter accusing Edmond of carrying a letter from Elba to the Bonapartist committee in Paris. Caderousse, a neighbor, learned of the plot but kept silent. On his wedding day Edmond was arrested and taken before a deputy named Villefort, a political apostate, who, to protect himself, had Edmond secretly imprisoned in the deepest dungeons of the Chateau D'If. There Dantes' incarceration was secured by the plotting of his enemies outside the prison, particularly towards Villefort, who wished to cover up his own father's connections with the Bonapartists. Dantes suffered for ...
- 1433: The Mouse Vs. The Wolf.
- ... was with a certain tremidity that I stealthily approached the cupboard, Yak hot on my heels. I had the plan that if it was some four-legged creature having a go at my garbage, I'd open the doors and yell "BOOO!" so as the miscreant would have a heart attack of fright or something. Shame, perhaps. Whatever. Luckily, I found no rats when the cupboard doors were flung open, but the scratching sounds continued unabated. A closer inquiry from me ("Yak! Check it out!") soon brought out the fact that it was something more harmless that was having a field day in my garbage bin. A mouse. A field-mouse, at that. Those of you who have taken a good look at a normal mouse and found them disgusting would not appreciate a field mouse. They ... the filthy creature. I took the only logical path and said: "Yak! Eat it!" Yak looked at me. He then backed up three steps, and apparently thought: "What? are you stupid? You think that I'd put something THAT ugly in my mouth?" I could hardly argue that point, but my sharp brains soon found a solution to this problem. I caught the mouse in an (almost) empty milk container, ...
- 1434: History Of Punk Rock
- ... politics. Not informing people is much better than misinforming people. We're sort of like reporters in a way. Reporters of our own mental state. Reporters of the state of the air. Consciousness. Of the day. We make personal statements.2 Friends Most punks that live in small towns have trouble making friends. They find it hard to relate to most people. Sixteen- year-old Becca Levine finds it hard to ... hungriest band I've ever seen. We get in the van and drive to a town, play, stay at a friend's house. Wake up when they throw us out. Drive the rest of the day. Play the next night. We get fifteen dollars a day. And when we're home, we don't get nothing. We're way in debt. We own a van, it breaks down, and you know when you play that the gig money goes to ...
- 1435: Teddy Bear
- ... Alice during his senior year at Harvard. They married on his 22nd birthday. A double tragedy struck on Feb. 14, 1884. Alice Roosevelt died two days after the birth of a daughter. On the same day, Roosevelt's mother died if typhoid fever. Roosevelt spent much of the next two years on his ranch in the badlands of Dakota Territory. There he mastered his sorrow as he lived in the saddle ... He led the Rough Riders on a charge at the Battle of San Juan. Roosevelt was one of the most conspicuous heroes of the war. Twenty years later he declared:"San Juan was the great day of my life. Thomas C. Platt, needing a hero to draw attention away from scandals in New York State, accepted Roosevelt as the Republican candidate for governor in 1898. Roosevelt won and served with distinction ... as a "trust buster" by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad combination in the northwest. During Roosevelt's presidency, the government filed suits against 43 other corporations. In major cases, the government ended John D. Rockerfeller's oil trust and James B. Duke's tobacco trust. Roosevelt steered the united States more actively into world politics. He liked to quote a favorite proverb , "Speak softly and carry a big ...
- 1436: Componants Of Life
- ... supplements perpetuates bad eating habits by making you think everything will be okay as long as you get your vitamins. But we must be honest with ourselves. Who seriously consumes their daily-allotted nutrients each day out of their meals? I bet your saying to yourself, well sure I do, because I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, and have a glass of milk and gram crackers for a late night snack ... money on it, that you not reaching your daily benefits, because only 9% of adults eat a balanced diet (Sinai). Many people cant or dont Ching 2 even eat some meals during the day due to their busy schedules. The typical American diet is well below what it should be. A study by the National Food Consumption Survey reported only 3% of the population ate the recommended number of ... supplements in an effort to meet nutritional goals. Ching 4 Many nutritional experts agree that unless youre consistently eating a good diet, its probably a good idea to take supplements. David Benton, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of Walees, Swansea, says the first signs of nutritional deficiencies show up not as physical signs but as declining mental performances. To prove his hypothesis, Benton gave a ...
- 1437: The Tradition of the Twelfth Man
- ... of the Twelfth Man and The Bonfire. The tradition of the Twelfth Man began on January 1, 1922 in Dallas with the game against Center College in the Dixie Classic, a forerunner to the present day Cotton Bowl (Parks 108). Center College was favored to win, but the game was incredibly close with injuries on both sides. Towards the end of the game, the Aggies had only 11 players left standing and all of them were on the field. One more injury and the Aggies would have to forfeit the game. Coach D.X. Bible looked up in the stands and found E. King Gill, a former football player and current basketball player, and asked him to come down and suit up. When interviewed later Gill remarked: "I ... he didn't play in that game, he was ready and able to go in and give it his best. This readiness to support the team inspired the rest of the Aggies, and to this day, every member of the student body stands through the entire game to tell the team, We're here if you need us. Today, and everyday since 1922, the term Twelfth Man, has referred to ...
- 1438: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... mother had various physical ailments and appeared to be high strung, coming from a background in which her father's alcoholism deeply affected her life. Lionel, a chemist who went on to get his Ph.D., stayed at work more often than he should to avoid Turmoil on the home front. Eventually, the marriage dissolved in divorce when Jeff was eighteen. However, none of this commonplace domestic discord accounts for serial ... etc. He also had a dog-named Frisky, his much loved childhood pet. Despite a greater number than usual of ear and throat infections, Jeff developed into a happy little boy. His father recalled the day that they released back into the wild a bird that the three of them had nursed back to health from an injury: "I cradled the bird in my cupped hand, lifted it into the air ... felt a wonderful delight. Jeff's eyes were wide and gleaming. It may have been the single, happiest moment of his life." The family had moved to Iowa where Lionel was working on his Ph.D. at Iowa When Jeff was four, his father swept out from under their house the remains of some small animals that had been killed by civets. As his father gathered the tiny animal bones, ...
- 1439: John Grisham
- ... degree in accounting, Grisham enrolled at the University Law School. After his first class in tax law, Grisham transferred out and into criminal defense law. In 1981 he graduated from law school with a J.D. degree (Current 221). John Grisham wasted no time going right into his new business of a lawyer. After finishing college Grisham set up a private practice in Southaven (Ferranti 42). Almost as soon as he ... term, Grisham resigned his seat and decided to try something he never had dreamed about, writing (Hubbard 44). Meanwhile during all this Grisham was still a lawyer. Grisham's inspiration for writing hit him one day when he never expected it. One day at the De Soto County courthouse, Grisham listened to the testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim. Grisham wondered what it would be like if the girl's father had killed the rapist ...
- 1440: Great Expectations
- ... on heredity, the divisions between rich and poor remained nearly as wide as ever. London, a teeming mass of humanity, lit by gas lamps at night and darkened by black clouds from smokestacks during the day, had become radically different from the nation's sparsely populated rural areas. Throughout England, the manners of the upper class were very strict and conservative--gentlemen and ladies were expected to have thorough classical educations ... a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty till nine. As a young woman, Miss Havisham was left at the altar on her wedding day, and now she has a vendetta against all men. She deliberately raises Estella as the tool of her revenge, training her beautiful ward to break men's hearts. Abel Magwitch ("The Convict") - A fearsome criminal ... of gentleman. Herbert nicknames Pip "Handel." He is the son of Matthew Pocket, Miss Havisham's cousin, and hopes to become a merchant so that he can afford to marry Clara Barley. Dolge Orlick - The day-laborer in Joe's forge, Orlick is a slouching, oafish embodiment of evil--he is malicious and shrewd, hurting people simply because he enjoys it. He is responsible for the attack on Pip's ...
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