Second, managers construct leveraged portfolios of AAA-or AA-rated tax-exempt municipal bonds with the duration risk hedged by shorting the appropriate ratio of taxable corporate bonds.

Along with these, already traditional, methods recent expansion of corporate use of Second Life and other virtual worlds led to development of a newer generation of software that takes advantage of a 3D data presentation.

Professional Learning Programs offers non-credit continuing education courses and certificates, corporate training, a Professional Engineering Exam Review program, international programs including English as a Second Language instruction, short courses and seminars ranging from a few hours to several days in length.

# Second, a corporate visual identity symbolizes an organization for external stakeholders, and, hence, contributes to its image and reputation ( Schultz, Hatch and Larsen, 2000 ).

Gaining popularity after the Second World War, architectural modernism was adopted by many influential architects and architectural educators, and continues as a dominant architectural style for institutional and corporate buildings into the 21st century.

Second, the Americans ' corporate sister club, the Rochester Knighthawks lacrosse team, had to be split off, since Pegula also owns the Knighthawks ' chief rival, the Buffalo Bandits.

* Phase I: Emerging Communications Industry Policy ( until the Second World War )- during this era, communications policy was mainly pursued for reasons of state interest and financial corporate benefits ; communications and media policy referred to the emerging technologies of telegraph, telephony, and wireless.

The Stonnington City Centre ( formerly Malvern Town Hall ), in Second Empire style, is now the corporate headquarters for the City of Stonnington.

In 2010 the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. that " customary international law has steadfastly rejected the notion of corporate liability for international crimes " and thus that " insofar as plaintiffs bring claims under the ATS against corporations, plaintiffs fail to allege violations of the law of nations, and plaintiffs ' claims fall outside the limited jurisdiction provided by the ATS.

Second, they contended that no norm has ever existed between nations that imposes liability upon corporate actors.

The United States Second Revenue Act of 1940 created a corporate excess profits tax ( top rate 50 %) and increased corporate tax rates ( top rate from 33 % to 35 %).

* James McGregor Stewart, prominent corporate lawyer, coal administrator during the Second World War, and founder of the Halifax law firm, Stewart McKelvey.

The Second Circuit stated banks had been securitizing their assets for “ ten years ” before the OCC ’ s 1987 approval of Security Pacific ’ s securitization.

* Second Life uses GUIDs for identification of all assets in its world.

This can be seen, for example, in Second Life's recognition of intellectual property rights for assets created " in-world " by subscribers, and its laissez-faire policy on the buying and selling of Linden Dollars ( the world's official currency ) for real money on third party websites.

In 1938, before the beginning of the Second World War, Gulbenkian incorporated in Panama a company to hold his assets in the oil industry.

With the end of the Cold War and the restructuring of Strategic Air Command, Second Air Force was reactivated and became the steward for reconnaissance and battlefield management assets, based at Beale AFB, California.

15th AF assumed the assets and personnel of the former Continental Air Forces Second Air Force, which was inactivated on 30 March.

Its existence was eventually brought to an end on 31 March 1943, when most of its assets were used to form the Second Tactical Air Force.

: Second: one-eight of assets to be devided among the University of Texas-Rice Institute of Technology of Houston-the University of Nevada-and the University of Calif.

Second, it prevents the surviving spouse from taking too large of an elective share, if the decedent had already transferred substantial assets to the spouse.

In 1947, the company acquired the automotive assets of Graham-Paige, of which Frazer had been president before the Second World War.

* Independent Commission of Experts, AKA the Bergier commission, to investigate assets moved to Switzerland around the Second World War

The Second Universalist Church of Boston merged its assets with Arlington Street Church in 1967.

Second, backhand overheads cannot be hit with as much power as forehands: the hitting action is limited by the shoulder joint, which permits a much greater range of movement for a forehand overhead than for a backhand.

Second, because injected insulin cannot be " turned off ," diabetic hypoglycemia has a greater chance of progressing to serious impairment if not treated, compared to most other forms of hypoglycemia.

In other words, the fact that an infinite list cannot realistically be specified means that the concept of " number " in the infinite sense ( i. e. the continuum ) cannot be described by the new theory proposed in PM Second Edition.

* Second, it is not clear how to determine the gravitational field of a particle, since under the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics its location and velocity cannot be known with certainty.

* Second law of thermodynamics: Heat cannot spontaneously flow from a colder location to a hotter location.

Unfortunately, we cannot know whether the plays of the Towneley manuscript are actually the plays performed at Wakefield but a reference in the Second Shepherds ' Play to Horbery Shrogys ( line 454 ) is strongly suggestive.

The power of Seth's cult in the mighty ( yet outlying ) city of Avaris from the Second Intermediate Period through the Ramesside Period cannot be denied.

Psychohistory is based on group trends and cannot predict with sufficient accuracy the effects of extraordinary, unforeseeable individuals ; and, as originally presented, the Second Foundation's purpose was to counter this flaw.

The so-called New Laws are similar to Asimov's originals with the following differences: the First Law is modified to remove the " inaction " clause, the same modification made in " Little Lost Robot "; the Second Law is modified to require cooperation instead of obedience ; the Third Law is modified so it is no longer superseded by the Second ( i. e., a " New Law " robot cannot be ordered to destroy itself ); finally, Allen adds a Fourth Law which instructs the robot to do " whatever it likes " so long as this does not conflict with the first three laws.

The Catholic Church maintains that man cannot " be justified before God by his own works ,... without the grace of God through Jesus Christ ," thereby rejecting Pelagianism in accordance with the writings of Augustine and the Second Council of Orange ( 529 ).

Second, the mechanisms of de-differentiation ( and by extension, differentiation ) are very complex and cannot be easily duplicated, as seen by the significant number of differentially methylated regions between ES and iPS cell lines.

Second, of course, diagrams and pictures cannot be accommodated, and many books have at least some such material.

Many of the mitzvot cannot be observed now, following the destruction of the Second Temple, although they still retain religious significance.

* Mighty: Second most-powerful card in the game, though it cannot be legally played on the first or last trick.

According to Christian theology, the transcendent God, who cannot be approached or seen in essence or being, becomes immanent primarily in the God-man Jesus the Christ, who is the incarnate Second Person of the Trinity.

Second, because the argument from authority is an inductive-reasoning argument — wherein is implied that the truth of the conclusion cannot be guaranteed by the truth of the premises — it also is fallacious to assert that the conclusion must be true.

Thomas Aquinas taught that souls in Purgatory cannot sin ( Summa Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part, Question 83, Article 11, Reply to Objection 3 ), let alone the saints in heaven.

Even the sterile military environment of Second Earth cannot subdue all human urges, but as Yuji soon discovers, a little human contact could cost him everything.

Second, it is possible that a pattern ( s ) exist, but the algorithm cannot find it.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics was expressed via the following axiom: " In the neighbourhood of any initial state, there are states which cannot be approached arbitrarily close through adiabatic changes of state.

As the order to retrieve the selenium was casually worded with no particular emphasis, Speedy cannot decide whether to obey it ( Second Law ) or protect himself from danger ( the strengthened Third Law ).