During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia ’ s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.

As of 2009, the regional stock exchange ’ s market capitalization reached nearly 10 % of Burkina Faso ’ s GDP.

This is likely to have exchange rate implications: a sharp loss of value in the deficit economy ’ s exchange rate with the surplus economy ’ s currency will change the relative price of tradable goods, and facilitate a return to balance or ( more likely ) an over-shooting into surplus the other direction.

After the revolution Egypt ’ s foreign exchange reserves fell from $ 36 billion in December 2010 to only $ 16. 3 billion in January 2012, also in February 2012 Standard & Poor ’ s rating agency lowered the Egypt ’ s credit rating from B + to B in the long term.

Despite the downturn, Hong Kong ’ s economic strengths, including a sound banking system, virtually no public debt, a strong legal system, ample foreign exchange reserves, rigorous anti-corruption measures and close ties with the mainland China, enable it to quickly respond to changing circumstances.

The IMF's stated goal was to stabilize exchange rates and assist the reconstruction of the world ’ s international payment system post-World War II.

Logrolling is the process by which politicians trade support for one issue or piece of legislation in exchange for another politician ’ s support, especially by means of legislative votes ( Holcombe 2006 ).

He will exchange his vote for his fellow legislators ’ bills to promote, for instance, the construction of new hospitals and the increase of veteran ’ s benefits, in return for their votes to repair the road ( Buchanan and Tullock 1962 ).

As a result tourism has become Malaysia ’ s third largest source of income from foreign exchange, although it is threatened by the negative effects of the growing industrial economy, with large amounts of air and water pollution along with deforestation affecting tourism.

After the death of Emperor Henry VI, the majority of the princes of the Empire, situated in the south, elected Henry ’ s brother, Philip, Duke of Swabia, king in March 1198, after receiving money and promises from Philip in exchange for their support.

There was public outrage when the media reported that David Westerfield, in a high-profile murder case in San Diego in 2002, was negotiating a deal in which he would reveal the location of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam ’ s body in exchange for avoiding the death penalty: the deal fell through when her body was found, and the case went to trial.

* continue to recognize each other ’ s Baptism and authorize and encourage the sharing of the Lord ’ s Supper among their members ; recognize each other's various ministries and make provision for the orderly exchange of ordained ministers of Word and Sacrament ;

The country ’ s main source of foreign exchange is the Bulembu asbestos mine, however production has hit a steep decline.

* In the upcoming film Prince of Malacca, a Wall Street billionaire hedge fund manager, after seeking nadi astrology in India, is getting into a double deal by becoming a CIA ’ s intelligence officer with a special directive from the President of the United States of America to detect a drug cartel in Southeast Asia, in an exchange for using space and satellite technology to locate an island in the Strait of Malacca where in a tribal community his lover of previous birth is born as a beautiful dancer.

The bills were backed only by the national government ’ s promise to redeem them and their value was dependent on public confidence in the government as well as the ability of the government to give out specie in exchange for the bills in the future.

In October of the same year, Louis XVIII ’ s foreign minister, the Duc de Richelieu, succeeded in convincing the powers to withdraw their armies early, in exchange for a sum of over 200 million francs.

In their first exchange in Act I, scene 1, Cleopatra says to Antony, “ I ’ ll set a bourn how far to be beloved .” In this case Cleopatra speaks in an authoritative and affirming sense to her lover, which to Shakespeare ’ s audience would be uncharacteristic for a female lover.

The Portuguese retained control until 1778, when the island, adjacent islets, and commercial rights to the mainland between the Niger and Ogooué Rivers were ceded to Spain in exchange of South America ´ s territory Sacramento ( Treaty of El Pardo ).

Construction of a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell | PEMFC: Bipolar plate as electrode with in-milled gas channel structure, fabricated from conductive composite material | composite s ( enhanced with graphite, carbon black, carbon fiber, and / or carbon nanotube s for more conductivity ); Porous carbon papers ; reactive layer, usually on the polymer membrane applied ; polymer membrane. Condensation of water produced by a PEMFC on the air channel wall.

For example, he said " I cannot get over the difficulty of the wine which is kept in the cellar for three or four years while constantly increasing in exchange value, or that of the oak tree, which perhaps originally had not 2 s. expended on it in the way of labour, and yet comes to be worth £ 100.

In this way the difference in meaning between the English words kill and kiss is a result of the exchange of the phoneme / l / for the phoneme / s /.

The directors are elected by the Exchange ’ s sole shareholder, CHX Holdings, Inc. Each year, the exchange ’ s nominating committee initially identifies candidates for the open STP participant director positions on the board ; the exchange ’ s participants can add names to that list by petition.

The nominating committee nominates candidates to positions on the board of directors and addresses issues associated with the governance of the exchange.

Each year, the nominating committee initially identifies candidates for the open STP participant director positions on the board ; the exchange ’ s participants can add names to that list by petition.

Fuchs attended a conference of the Combined Policy Committee ( CPC ) in 1947, a committee created to facilitate exchange of atomic secrets between the highest levels of government of the U. S., Great Britain and Canada ; Donald Maclean, as British co-secretary of CPC, was also in attendance.

As a member of the committee formed to set foreign exchange rates, he recommended that American currency should be based on the decimal system ; his plan was adopted.

He worked for the local wartime Co-operative committee, handing out supplies in exchange for coupons, but then considered other professions for his future, including boxing, religion and singing.

The committee was formed as an all-volunteer organization to represent Greater St. Louis in an all ongoing cultural exchange and economic development with the Russian Sister City.

In September, 1864, some French delegates again visited London with the concrete aim of setting up a special committee for the exchange of information upon matters of interest to the workers of all lands.

Massachusetts appointed a five member Committee of Correspondence in June 1764 to coordinate action and exchange information regarding the Sugar Act, and in October 1764 Rhode Island formed a similar committee.

* March: When the bills were reported out of committee, it was generally acknowledged that to enter the Union Michigan would have to cede the Toledo Strip in exchange for the western two-thirds ( 2 / 3 ) of the Upper Peninsula.

The committee is appointed each year by the exchange ’ s board of directors.

Under the exchange ’ s bylaws, the committee must hold at least two open meetings to allow exchange participants to recommend potential candidates for STP participant director positions.

The committee also consults with both the exchange ’ s chairman and CEO about the needs of the exchange and typically solicits recommendations from other board members.

In its 2009 report, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) named Lewis one of the 15 most corrupt members of Congress, saying that his " ethics issues stem primarily from the misuse of his position as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee to steer hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks to family and friends in direct exchange for contributions to his campaign committee and political action committee.

In exchange for agreeing to resign, Scott will serve as chair of the party's election preparedness committee until the 2011 election.

In April 2010, the chief executive of Financial Regulation at the Central Bank of Ireland told the same committee that " senior management of the exchange should step up to the plate " after failing to help charities, credit unions and rich individuals who received letters informing them that many investments made by stockbrokers over the past decade are now worthless.

He served on committees to examine the public debt ( 1798 ), the Irish exchange ( 1804 ), public expenditure ( 1807 ) and the bullion committee ( 1810 ), which scrutinized the high price of gold, foreign exchange, and the state of the British currency.

The report of the committee, written by Thornton, argued for the resumption of gold payments in exchange for notes and deposits, which the Bank of England ( of which his elder brother, Samuel Thornton, was a director ) had suspended in 1797, but the recommendation was not well received at the time, and gold redemption on demand was not restored until 1821.

In May 2004, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor established the Gadish Committee to investigate reform in the Israel Land Administration ; the committee proposed an exchange of state-held land in the Galilee and the Negev for land of equal value held by the JNF in the center of the state.

This sense of moderation and fairness is superbly exemplified in an exchange of letters between John Jay and a Tory refugee, Peter Van Schaack.

We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

The thermal exchange of chlorine between Af and liquid Af is readily measurable at temperatures in the range of 180-degrees and above.

These estimates indicated that the quantum yield for the exchange of chlorine with liquid carbon tetrachloride at 65-degrees is of the order of magnitude of unity.

The last column shows the rate of exchange that would have been observed at a relative intensity of 4 ( 14.7 cm. distance ) calculated on the assumptions that the incident light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the lamp from the cell and that the rate is directly proportional to the incident light intensity.

Thus, although the agenda of external assistance in the economic sphere are cumulative, and many of the policies suggested for nations in the earlier stages remain relevant, the basic purpose of American economic policy during the later stages of development should be to assure that movement into a stage of self-sustaining growth is not prevented by lack of foreign exchange.

A stock transaction for less than a hundred shares is executed via a special odd-lot broker on the floor of the exchange.

It is a war of attrition, of single actions, of an exchange of losses.

( Pp. 228-229 ) in any event, it is obvious that the anti-trust laws did not prevent the formation of some of the greatest financial empires the world has ever known, held together by some of the most fantastic ideas, all based on the fundamental notion that a corporation is an individual who can trade and exchange goods without control by the government ''.

Daniel Batson is a psychologist who examined this question and argues against the social exchange theory.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

In air, where oxygen is more concentrated, some small species can rely solely on cutaneous gas exchange, most famously the plethodontid salamanders, which have neither lungs nor gills.

Allocution is sometimes required of a defendant who pleads guilty to a crime in a plea bargain in exchange for a reduced sentence.

Anatolia is known as the birthplace of minted coinage ( as opposed to unminted coinage, which first appears in Mesopotamia at a much earlier date ) as a medium of exchange, some time in the 7th century BC in Lydia.

Death is common in the first week and overall mortality is about 70 %, but increasing evidence points to favorable outcomes after aggressive treatment with corticosteroids, immunoglobulins, cyclophosphamide, and plasma exchange.

* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

Murray Rothbard said that the difference between free-market capitalism and " state capitalism " is the difference between " peaceful, voluntary exchange " and a collusive partnership between business and government that uses coercion to subvert the free market.

When a molten metal is mixed with another substance, there are two mechanisms that can cause an alloy to form, called atom exchange and the interstitial mechanism.

There is, however, speculation that local criminal gangs barter abalone illegally with Chinese nationals in exchange for chemicals used in the production of drugs, reducing the need for the use of money and hence avoiding money laundering difficulties.

Adiabatic processes can occur if the container of the system has thermally-insulated walls or the process happens in an extremely short time, so that there is no opportunity for significant heat exchange.

At the opposite extreme, a transformation of a thermodynamic system can be considered isothermal if it is slow enough so that the system's temperature remains constant by heat exchange with the outside.