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...With foreign banks entering the market and Vietnam's biggest banks cleaning up their acts, the smallest private banks are likely to feel the squeeze. Foreign institutions will skim the cream of the wealthiest customers and least-risky loans, while the restructured state banks will be going after smaller accounts, issuing credit cards and loaning money to small- and medium-sized Vietnamese companies. Cany predicts the number of private banks in Vietnam will fall by at least half to less than 20 within five years due to failure or merger. Their only hope is to expand their reach and sophistication...
...find that the genres that are downloaded the least have the smallest decline in sales, and, in some cases, an increase,” he added...
...Britain would replace the United States as public enemy number one," says Mohebbian. But others say most Iranians paid little attention to the matter, and that a hard-line student protest outside the British Embassy in Tehran scarcely reflects majority sentiment. "These kinds of protests represent the smallest minority," says Laylaz; "most ordinary Iranians care about the price of tomatoes, not issues like this...
Pawanpreet K. Dhaliwal ’09, the director of Students for Edwards—which currently has the smallest enrollment among the Democratic groups—said that her group is in its very early stages...
...After the war, whenever we passed the old Mukhabarat HQ, my driver and I got a childish thrill by pointing to it, for no good reason. It is only the smallest of many, many freedoms that Iraqis gained after the U.S.-led coalition toppled the dictator. They also got the right to vote, satellite TV, cellphones, the ability to travel out of Iraq, and a new education system that doesn't brainwash children into worshiping Saddam...