Word: carta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...para acabar completa, la banca le manda carta...
Following a discussion of everything from St.Augustine to Magna Carta to Chaucer, Brown saidhis interviewer "put two photocopies ofmanuscripts--one Latin, another Anglo-Saxon--infront of me and said, 'Now read and translate...
...there is a Magna Carta for this new world of electronic finance, a single document that spells out the terms and scope of the revolution that will shift money power away from central bankers and into the hands of consumers, it could be found in "Financial Markets in 2020," a speech delivered in 1993 by Charles Sanford Jr., then CEO of Bankers Trust, to a gathering of economics sachems in Jackson Hole...
...There are students at Harvard who do not appreciate living history. For example, in 1215 King John was forced by English barons to sign the Magna Carta--a document that effectively curtailed the absolute power of the King. In compensation, the barons offered King John several slightly used Nautilus exercise machines. You may have seen these machines on display at the Malkin Athletic Center museum for the past 750 years...
...with no strict hierarchy, the first arrests were big ones. Schweitzer became a leader of the Freemen after a tax dispute in the late 1970s. Using ideas common to the Posse Comitatus and other rightist fringe groups, they cobbled a doctrine out of bits and pieces of the Magna Carta, the Bible, the Constitution and other sources to argue that the Federal Government represents an illegal usurpation of the common-law power of localities. The ideas are now spread by groups under a variety of names--Freemen, We the People, People for Constitutional Courts, even the Civil Rights Task Force...