Fraud may well be rare among bank people, but endemic in its projects. Many invite bids for a contract to build a road, say, or provide tractors. The bank stumps up the cash, but the borrowing government picks the winner. In a paper published in 2005, Nathaniel Hobbs, a political scientist, shows how bids were routinely rigged. His sources had handled about 90 bank contracts, worth $90m in total, for firms in over20 countries. In every contract, one source said, local officials sought a kick-back, typically of 10-15%.
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The central bank says that it will soak up the cash, for instance, by selling instruments of its own, so monetary policy will not be loosened.
中央银行说道,例如通过出售自己的债券,它将会迅速吸收大量现金,所以货币政策将不会放松。
"Just remember," she cautioned as I gathered up the cash, "this is the Lord's money, and you'll have to repay it."
“要记住,”我把钱收拢时,她提醒说:“这是上帝的钱,你必须还回来。”
Life-threatening cases are accepted but nothing happens until someone stumps up the cash—even if the patients die.
生命垂危的病人是暂时被医院接受的,但在钞票付齐之前,医院不会安排任何的诊断手术—甚至是病人就此死去。
In the United States, a vote in Congress is expected in the coming weeks that could authorize up to $4,500 to individuals who trade in vehicles in what has become known as the "cash for clunkers" bill.
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But then they posed a different version of the same question and the different version was: Suppose you had ordered tickets to pick them up and pay for them at the window at the concert hall and you brought $400 in cash in your pocket.
然后,他们又对同样的问题,给予了不同的假设场景:,假设你预定了两张票,你得去音乐厅的窗口,付钱然后取票,你随身带了四百美元。
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