In the Shikhali district an estimated 7, 000 head of cattle were taken away from Hazaras and 350 men and women of the Jaghori district had been sold at Kabul markets each at the price of 20 – 21 Afs.

Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders ( including the longtime controlling family interests ) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US $ 13 billion.

By the end of the 20th century, Cambridge had one of the most expensive housing markets in the Northeastern United States.

However, the scare taught the industry that they could not be completely dependent on the holiday market for their products: they had to find year-round markets for their fruit.

Ultimately, the name change campaign lasted for a three year period from 1982 to 1984 ( Datsun badged vehicles had been progressively fitted with small " Nissan " and " Datsun by Nissan " badges from the late 1970s onward ) until the Nissan name was given prominence in 1983-although in some export markets vehicles continued to wear both the Datsun and Nissan badges until 1986.

They concluded that such a product was technically feasible, economically manufacturable, and had significant realistic markets.

Fueled by rumors of a reception for the King's bodyguards on 1 October 1789 at which the national cockade had been trampled upon, on 5 October 1789 crowds of women began to assemble at Parisian markets.

In addition, manufacturers had to produce different equipment to meet various standards across the markets.

" The loss of external markets in Hungary coupled with the loss of Soviet subsidies left " 800, 000 unemployed people because all the unprofitable and unsalvageable factories had been closed.

They had initially selected the land near the Wabash River for its isolation and opportunity for expansion, but the Harmonites were now a great distance from the eastern markets and trade in this location wasn't to their liking.

At Economy the Harmonists intended to become more involved in manufacturing and their new town on the Ohio River provided better access to eastern markets and water access to the south and west than they had in Indiana.

The adoption of the ITRs in 1988 is often taken as the start of the wider liberalization process in international telecommunications, though a few countries, including United States and United Kingdom, had made steps to liberalize their markets before 1988.

By the 1890s, industrialisation in these areas had created the first giant industrial corporations with burgeoning global interests, as companies like U. S. Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad companies on the world's stock markets.

In 1949, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania founded the Comecon in accordance with Stalin's desire to enforce Soviet domination of the lesser states of Central Europe and to mollify some states that had expressed interest in the Marshall Plan, and which were now, increasingly, cut off from their traditional markets and suppliers in Western Europe.

However, by 1987, the automobile markets had changed and even Renault itself was experiencing financial troubles.

Beer had replaced cider as a fashionable drink in the main export markets, and even the home market had switched to beer as the population became more urban.

The French population had not recovered from the Black Death of the previous century and its merchants were isolated from foreign markets.

In such cases, economists may attempt to find policies that will avoid waste, either directly by government control, indirectly by regulation that induces market participants to act in a manner consistent with optimal welfare, or by creating " missing markets " to enable efficient trading where none had previously existed.

This assistance also includes a commitment of $ 30 million in direct budget support in the form of a policy-based guarantee by the World Bank to the government to facilitate its access to financing from international capital markets, a process that had been started as of November 2011.

During the 2000 PBS documentary The Commanding Heights ( based on the book ), Friedman continued to argue that criticism over his role in Chile missed his main contention that freer markets resulted in freer people, and that Chile's unfree economy had caused the military government.

The latter is being aggressively marketed by InterSystems and has had success in penetrating new markets, such as telecommunications, in addition to existing markets.

Getting the materials for them was more dependent on barter and black markets than it was on normal sources of supply, which had all but ceased to exist.

Genoa had acquired a largely dominant position in the markets of Southern France.

It has been correctly pointed out by well-informed people in the industry that it is probably unrealistic to expect a continuation of the yearly growth of 15% or better that characterized the decade of the 1950's, and that our military markets may be entering upon a new phase in which procurement of multiple weapons systems will give way to concentration of still undeveloped areas of our defense capability.

Supporters believe that by the late 20th century those they characterized as " ruling elites " sought to harness the expansion of world markets for their own interests ; this combination of the Bretton Woods institutions, states, and multinational corporations has been called " globalization " or " globalization from above.

Non-ferrous metallurgy has prospered because the Pirdop copper smelting plant was bought by Union Minière of Belgium and because export markets have been favourable.

The electronics industry, which also was configured in the 1980s to serve Soviet markets, has not been able to compete with Western computer manufacturers.

Much of what has been written about boards of directors relates to boards of directors of business entities actively traded on public markets.

Recently, both the Bank of England ( 1997 ) and the European Central Bank have been made independent and follow a set of published inflation targets so that markets know what to expect.

They were once used by Chinese mathematicians, and later in Chinese markets, such as those in Hong Kong before the 1990s, but has been gradually supplanted by the Arabic numerals.

Bell appealed both requirements, citing that the rules do not apply to cable companies and that they constituted proactive rate regulation by the CRTC, which goes against government official policy direction that the regulator only intervene in markets after a competitive problem has been proven.

There have been airport improvements at various centres providing improved connections to markets and destinations in the rest of North America and overseas.

There has also been a significant growth in local farmers ' markets and other markets.

Although in contemporary usage free markets are commonly associated with capitalism, free markets have been advocated by socialists and have been included in various different proposals for market socialism.

Cooperative markets have been organized, and Tonga are being taught to run them.

Since its inception in 1857, the City Market has been one of the largest and most enduring public farmers ' markets in the midwest, linking growers and small businesses to the Kansas City community.

Though the original Lada, and as of the early part of the new millennium, the Samara, have now been withdrawn, the Lada 110 and the Niva are still sold in certain Western European markets, as are the more modern models.

The measurement in U. S. markets has historically been by Arbitron, a commercial statistical service that uses listener diaries.

LAAM has since been removed from the US and European markets due to reports of rare cardiac side effects.

Banda was the world's only source of nutmeg and mace, spices used as flavourings, medicines, preserving agents, that were at the time highly valued in European markets ; sold by Arab traders to the Venetians for exorbitant prices.

The Polish banking sector, the largest in central and eastern Europe as well as the largest and the most highly developed sector of the country ’ s financial markets, is regulated by the Polish Financial Supervision Authority.

The explanation for this phenomenon has not been verified, but it is possible that in highly concentrated markets, there are more specialized capital which is more difficult to adjust, thus in these markets high profits take longer to fall back to the industry average.

In turn, the emerging cash-based, highly opaque markets provided a breeding ground for a large number of racket gangs.

The markets had been highly robust during the first six months of 2007, with highly issuer friendly developments including PIK and PIK Toggle ( interest is " Payable In Kind ") and covenant light debt widely available to finance large leveraged buyouts.

Bubbles occur not only in real-world markets, with their inherent uncertainty and noise, but also in highly predictable experimental markets.

In Laos, gaurs are highly threatened by poaching for trade to supply international markets, but also by opportunistic hunting, and specific hunting for home consumption.

Puzzlingly for some, bubbles occur even in highly predictable experimental markets, where uncertainty is eliminated and market participants should be able to calculate the intrinsic value of the assets simply by examining the expected stream of dividends.

These varieties are highly sought after and can be found at specialty markets or farmers markets only.

Critics also argued that specialized, highly competitive commercial and investment banking firms were more efficient in competitive global markets.

The marque was also highly competitive abroad, with markets in sixty-one countries.

It is highly perishable ; though formerly widely available for the consumer market, it has become less common in supermarkets in some countries due to its poor keeping properties, having been superseded in some such markets by active dry and instant yeast.

The success of Seger's music at this time, however, was highly regional, with Seger still remaining quite unknown even in adjacent media markets such as Chicago.

Daffy's Elixir and Turlington's Balsam were among the first products that used branding ( e. g., using highly distinctive containers ) and mass marketing to create and maintain markets.

In cultures where professional careers are highly prized there can be a shortage of skilled manual workers, leading to lucrative niche markets in the trades.

In cultures where professional careers are highly prized there can be a shortage of skilled manual workers, leading to lucrative niche markets in the trades.

Mackintosh is notable as a producer for his transformation of the musical into a global, highly profitable brand, and was the first theatrical producer to recognise that both touring productions and worldwide productions ( often in countries where musicals were seldom seen, such as the former eastern bloc countries in the early 90s ) were potentially highly lucrative markets which could, collectively, match and even surpass the revenues generated from New York and London productions.

The opening of a railway to Aylesbury in 1839 enabled cheap and quick transport to the markets of London, and duck rearing became highly profitable.