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...Chengdu City Commercial Bank (C.C.C.B.), one of a hundred or so such banks set up over the past several years across the mainland specifically to lend to small companies. One applicant, the owner of a factory that makes pickled vegetables, visited Binbin's office recently with his ledger: a single piece of handwritten paper folded in his breast pocket. Other would-be borrowers often pile receipts on Binbin's desk in lieu of a balance sheet. Even those who keep books "usually have two or three," Binbin says. "They figure out what we want and write it down...
...Daily pay of U.S. Senators in 1790, only on the days the Senate was in session, which came to about $1,000 a year, according to a ledger found in the basement of the U.S. Capitol...
...their airspace and air bases to NATO planes. The decision wasn't easy; Hungary was at that time the only NATO member bordering Yugoslavia, and a large population of ethnic Hungarians live in that country's Vojvodina region. "That was a big tick on the positive side of the ledger," says a Western diplomat in Budapest. But then Hungary's brilliance began to fade. Among the criticisms: the sorry state of the country's troops and matériel, the lack of transparency in the way military contracts were doled out, and Hungary's lukewarm contribution...
...preserve an oasis environment on a semidesert plateau. The golf course alone absorbs half a million gallons a day, water that would otherwise flow downstream and feed the Colorado River. "We created an artificial environment here, and we are trying to keep it," says city manager Robert Ledger. "The water we don't use ends up in a fountain in Vegas...
...people killed annually through the misuse of guns, yet you make no mention of the many more thousands who are alive because they were able to use guns to defend themselves from violent criminal attackers. Would you run a business where you tracked only debts in the ledger book, but not income...