Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exact experiment that I decided to use, I did not enter the date or all of the exact conditions in my notebook," he said. "The only reason for that was inexperience...
...formed the holy Church which has continued for 20 centuries. The Catholic Church is built upon sacred scripture and tradition, helping breathe life into the worlds of faith and action alike. Today, it is led by Pope John Paul II, whose most recent encyclical, "Fides ed Ratio" (faith and reason), speaks clearly to the rapidly accelerating pace of information transfer and change that "can leave especially the younger generation, to whom the future belongs and on whom it depends, with a sense that they have no valid points of reference." Where is the reason, the rationale upon which the rock...
...course, many reading this will not share the faith of faith of those dancers in St. Peter's Square. The simple faith I found in those dancers and in a unity of belief and love exemplified by the Pope's Easter greeting in 61 languages the next day were reason enough...
...important aspect of the recent shuffling is that nearly all the mergers have been domestic corporate marriages rather than cross-border European takeovers, which had been expected to proliferate when the euro was introduced in financial transactions in January. The main reason is efficiency: it is becoming obvious that domestic mergers offer big commercial banks a fast way to reduce expenses before they take the more uncharted jump outside national borders. "There's a preference to start with domestic mergers first because they offer the quickest way to reduce excess capacity by cutting jobs," says Hendrikus Blommestein, acting head...
...third reason for bulking up, according to Francesco Giavazzi, a professor at Milan's prestigious Bocconi business school, is that corporate size really does matter in banking, especially since the biggest banks are turning into one-stop service centers. According to Giavazzi, European banks are starting to follow another American model by replacing their traditional business of lending money with such financial services as asset management. "Being good is not good enough in asset management," Giavazzi says. "A bank has to be the best to attract customers, and that requires technology and highly trained personnel, which all cost money...