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...monetary policy is controlled by the European Central Bank, and most of the member countries have joined the “Eurozone,” the term for the monetary area in which the Euro is used. Thus, one central bank controls the supply of money for the EU, and individual countries do not have control over inflation targeting, interest rates, and other monetary issues. Yet at the same time, each country is in control of how much its central government spends and the solvency of its financial system, so Germany independently controls its expenditures and tax receipts, and Greece...
...body. Nope. We are completely mindless, and our worth is so little that people from Harvard consider us as members of a different planet. The next time you come to Tufts, I will be sure to open my legs just for you because I just can’t control myself when I see someone with a “H” sweatshirt. Oh baby that’s what gets me hot. I just have that little brain power...
Those in charge of designing and overseeing the online study guide library must be careful as well. The public and official status of the project introduces a plethora of potentially sticky issues related to intellectual property. Students who create study guides often lose control over what happens to their work once it is shared with others and may not want it posted online. Some study guides that get circulated around campus were created several years ago, and their authors might have concerns about their ideas becoming public. Moreover, because study guides are not official academic documents, they may be cobbled...
...Angie Sim, 37, likes the tax measures. "Less taxes are better for me." Jessica Moore, a junior in college who supports "green" ballot measures, says, "They push you to sign the initiative, but they don't tell you everything. I think the special interests control the initiative process...
...nation's President, a Hutu, in 1994 - an attack that sparked the genocide, which, in turn, allowed the Tutsis to reclaim power. The judge's inquiry, which seeks to determine if the Tutsi militias could have engineered the massacre of their own people in a Machiavellian scheme to take control, is what prompted Kigali to break ties with Paris...