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...transparency of financial markets In the aftermath of the East Asia crisis, there were demands for increased transparency on the part of developing countries. Although the crisis stemmed more from imprudent financial and capital market liberalization than from a lack of transparency, the call for greater transparency struck a chord - until it became apparent that greater transparency could apply also to the advanced industrial countries' offshore bank accounts and hedge funds. At that point, some in the U.S. Treasury became decidedly less enthusiastic. Nonetheless, the OECD developed an agreement restricting bank secrecy - an initiative vetoed by the Bush Administration shortly...
...roll. They strip their sound down to the essentials: wailing guitar licks, raucous vocals and crashing drums redolent of rock’s heyday in the 70s. Explicit lyrics might stave off mass appeal for Silvertide, but the rambunctious quintet out of northeastern Philadelphia strike that chord of mania and excess with rock fanatics. Tuesday, August 19 at 9:50 p.m. $6. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
...reach those kinds of milestones, a movie has to have something special going for it. For Bayside Shakedown, it was its tongue-in-cheek take on crime fighters caught in a web of bureaucratic and cultural red tape that struck a chord with Japanese and made the movie an instant social phenomenon. After its release, police academies across the nation reported an increase in applications; some tourists arriving in Tokyo to this day are disappointed to discover that the film's mythical Wangan Police Station doesn't exist. "People collected Bayside-related goods," recalls Kawasaki City housewife Yoshimi Yamakawa...
...Harry Potter we meet in Phoenix is a darker, more volatile Harry, and it's not just adolescent petulance. Harry is showing the mental scars of having been hunted and harried for four straight years, and the rage and fear he feels will strike a chord with any reader, adult or child. "You don't know what it's like!" he shrieks at Ron and Hermione. "You--neither of you--you've never had to face him, have you?" No, they don't know what it's like...
...France, she had surgery to remove uterine tumors and died on the operating table. Orwell was devastated. He set out to raise Richard alone, but proposed marriage to nearly every woman he met. He also finished Animal Farm, a fable about barnyard communism gone wrong that struck a chord in the postwar era. For the first time, he had royalties, though not the health to enjoy them. Lungs hemorrhaging, he embarked on a grand dystopian novel, 1984. When it was published in 1949 to global acclaim, the author was lying in a London hospital with tuberculosis. That didn't stop...