Word: offers
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...this higher level of consumer welfare is deceptively simple: there's no such thing as a banking industry anymore. There is only a financial services industry. And while the Canadian banking sector is highly concentrated, its financial services sector is not. Fifty trust companies, many with near-national reach, offer a range of services comparable to that of the banks; 2,500 credit unions and caisses populaires (Quebec credit unions) remain important retail outlets; 150 life insurance companies offer a wide range of investment vehicles; 80 mutual fund companies command 77 percent of the Canadian mutual fund market. Canadian banks...
...editors of Let's Go! have acted responsibly in the past by refusing to include Burma in the Let's Go! series, and explaining why it is not included. A break from this tradition--a decision to offer a Let's Go Myanmar! in the upcoming year--would play into the hands of a dictatorship trying to market itself into survival despite the wishes of the people...
Ganz, Eaton and Grass were able to offer retrospective commentary on under-graduate activism...
Another downside lies in the dependence of IP telephone companies upon the existing phone system. If local direct-dial and touch-tone phone service were not available nationwide, none of these firms could even offer their services...
...such as Wang Dan is a gift to the West, in exchange for political favors to Beijing. And the political cost of such a gift may be pretty cheap, says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Once a dissident leaves China, they lose all influence back home," says Dowell. "The offer of release into exile sparks a huge emotional crisis for many dissidents, who feel that choosing to leave is like choosing to give up. Some even opt instead to stay in prison...