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Aachen Cathedral Treasury

In August of that year the treasure was taken to the Collegium Liborianum, the Capuchin Monetary in Paderborn, where the three items of Imperial Regalia hitherto in the possession of the Cathedral college (the Carolingian Coronation Gospels, the Sabre of Charlemagne and St. Stephen's Purse were separated and taken to Vienna.

Adolph IX, Count of Holstein-Kiel

The dispute was settled amicably, with the counts in Pinneberg receiving monetary compensation, plus the district of Nienland (consisting of Neuland and the Lordship of Herzhorn) and some land along the Elbe.

Alice Masaryková

Masaryk was an active supporter of the academic women network and it is also recorded that Thomas Masaryk contributed to a monetary fund for the First International Fellowship of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW).

Amara Mohamed Konneh

Mr. Konneh is also the Chairman of the Mano River Union (MRU) Ministerial Council, the Vice Chairperson of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Africa Group 1 Constituency and is the coordinator of all the Economic Community of West African States' (ECOWAS) activities in Liberia.

Baba Nand Singh Ji

No monetary offerings are ever made in front of the Gurudwara's Guru Granth Sahib, as is the usual practice at other Gurdwaras, however a shortage of funds has occurred there.

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

As it was a monetary law, it required the approval of the President of the United States; Franklin D. Roosevelt did not give his.

Bank of Canada

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker central bank monetary policy was directed towards increasing the money supply to cause low interest rates, and have full employment.

Bretton Woods

The Bretton Woods system, the international monetary system created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference

Bretton Woods Conference

The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II.

Cardiff Business School

David Blanchflower, Academic and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England.

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

(a) political deliberation, particularly in monetary policy making settings (e.g., the United States Congress, the Federal Open Market Committee);

Client

Customer or client, a recipient of goods or services in return for monetary or other valuable considerations

Dominique Senequier

She holds a postgraduate degree in Banking and Monetary Economics from the University of Sorbonne, and is a former director of Hewlett-Packard, having resigned in March 2012.

E.C. Riegel

Best selling libertarian author Harry Browne, in the introduction to his 1974 book You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis described Riegel's book The New Approach to Freedom as “The best explanation of the free market I've seen.

Economic reforms and recovery proposals regarding the Eurozone crisis

In April, 2012, Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs in Brussels, "enthusiastically announced to EU parliamentarians in mid-April that 'there was a breakthrough before Easter'. He said the European heads of state had given the green light to pilot projects worth billions, such as building highways in Greece."

Eugenics Board of North Carolina

This organization, founded by Procter & Gamble heir Clarence Gamble provided experts, written material and monetary support to the eugenics movement.

Francine Patterson

The foundation was founded with her longtime research colleague Dr. Ronald Cohn in 1978 using monetary support from a Rolex Award.

Frank Coe

In late 1944/early 1945, Coe was named Director of the Division of Monetary Research in the Treasury Department, serving as technical secretary at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944, he accepted a position as Secretary of the International Monetary Fund in 1946, his successor at Treasury being Harold Glasser.

G. William Miller

In November 1978, only 11 months into his term, the dollar had fallen nearly 34% against the German mark and almost 42% against the Japanese yen, prompting the Carter administration to launch a "dollar rescue package" including emergency sales from the U.S. gold stock, borrowing from the International Monetary Fund, and auctions of Treasury securities denominated in foreign currencies.

Genuine progress indicator

Analysis by Robert Costanza also around 1995 of nature's services and their value showed that a great deal of degradation of nature's ability to clear waste, prevent erosion, pollinate crops, etc., was being done in the name of monetary profit opportunity: this was adding to GDP but causing a great deal of long term risk in the form of mudslides, reduced yields, lost species, water pollution, etc.

Giovanni Botero

Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie, The School of Salamanca: Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory, 1544 - 1605.

Green New Deal

The proposals of the Green New Deal generally echo the recommendations of UN-mandated organizations like ICLEI or the TEEB, of global NGOs, and of the Basel II and related monetary accords, especially as these relate to reforms to measurement of fundamental ecosystem risk and financial liabilities.

History of money

In the early British colony of New South Wales, rum emerged quite soon after settlement as the most monetary of goods.

J. B. Sumarlin

When it is, in the beginning of 1969 or the beginning of the New Order resurrection, Sumarlin as the Deputy Fiscal and Monetary Bappenas asked to accompany the Chairman of Bappenas Widjojo Nitisastro attend Cabinet meetings Economics Limited, at the National Palace.

John Hewley

He encouraged literary work, giving monetary support to the production of William Dugdale's Monasticon and Matthew Poole's Synopsis Criticorum.

Jordi Galí

His studies with Richard Clarida and Mark Gertler suggest that monetary policy in many countries today resembles the Taylor rule, whereas the policy makers of the 1970s failed to follow the Taylor rule.

Jurgis Bielinis

He escaped at least five times after being captured by gendarmes, despite a large monetary reward promised for his capture.

Kaiser Permanente

During that same period, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General settled 102 cases against U.S. hospitals which resulted in a monetary payment to the agency.

Lynch-Staunton

Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, monetary award given by the Canada Council for the Arts to mid-career Canadian artists

Mary Edwards Wertsch

In 2006, Army brat and filmmaker Donna Musil completed a documentary film significantly based on subject areas initially explored in Wertsch's book, and funded by several grants and hundreds of small monetary contributions from military brats to her non-profit organization, Brats without Borders.

Matthias Lanzinger

In 2010, the Norwegian patient advocacy found that Lanzinger had not received adequate treatment for his injuries, and was entitled to monetary compensation from Ullevål University Hospital.

Modern Monetary Theory

Constantina Katsari has argued that principles from both metallism and chartalism were reflected in the monetary system introduced by Augustus, which was used in the eastern provinces of Roman Empire, from the early 1st century to the late 3rd century AD.

Nathan Gregory Silvermaster

Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research U.S. Treasury Department; U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; U.S. Bureau of Employment Security

Prize

Prize money, monetary award that is given to someone after they have won a competition.

Randall Wright

Wright and Ricardo Lagos (2005) attempt to overcome this shortcoming by proposing a more general, yet still tractable, framework for the analysis of monetary policy.

Raymond Turmel

He is the brother of John Turmel, and holds similar views on issues such as monetary reform and marijuana legalization.

Richard Werner

He was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies at the Bank of Japan; and he was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Monetary and Fiscal Studies at the Ministry of Finance.

Robert I. Rotberg

In conjunction, Mo Ibrahim has created the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, a prize larger in monetary value than the Nobel Prize.

Salvadoran colón

On January 1, 2001 under the government of President Francisco Flores, the Law of Monetary Integration went into effect and allowed the free circulation of U.S. dollar in the country (see dollarization), with a fixed exchange rate of 8.75 colones.

Stability Pact

# The Stability and Growth Pact of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

In 2009, the foundation awarded the first Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences (a citation, a medal, and a monetary award of $250,000) to George M. Whitesides of Harvard University for his work in the field of materials chemistry.

Trinidad and Tobago Pro Bowl

It was not until 2006, when Courts began providing monetary prizes, that the tournament had its first sponsor.

Uganda Cowries

The values of the stamps varied, but all were denominated in cowries (monetary seashells), at 200 cowries per rupee or 12½ cowries = 1d.

Uniunea Producătorilor de Fonograme din România

Prior to this the thresholds were based on monetary revenue: Platinum (£1,000,000), Gold (£150,000 from April 1973 to September 1974, £250,000 from September 1974 to January 1977, and £300,000 from 1977 until 1979) and Silver (£75,000 from April 1973 to January 1975, £100,000 from January 1975 to January 1977, and £150,000 from 1977 until 1979).

Wael Ghonim

Wael Ghonim attended the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in 2011, stating that "I feel like Joe the Plumber," referring to the conservative activist who became a shorthand for populist outrage during the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

Wat Buddhavas of Houston

Laypeople come to the temple in the morning offering food and monetary donations to the monks and temple.

William Joseph McDonough

As president, he served as the vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which formulates U.S. monetary policy.

WPKL

WPQR was also issued an FCC monetary forfeiture of $20,000 in March 2000 for tower marking and registration violations, as well as failing to install new EAS equipment, which replaced the former EBS system.

Wright Patman

In 2011 Rick Perry condemned the monetary policies of Ben Bernanke in populist-like language, earning him criticism from some mainstream Republicans, including Karl Rove.


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