Not a week goes by without one of these financial institutions agreeing to pay a huge fine, settle a lawsuit charging fraud, be sued, blued and tattooed by a myriad of private plaintiffs, or by regulatory organizations concerning a broad sweep of allegedly activities that together give a sordid portrait of the global financial system.

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This development will be a foundation for the realization of a system for capturing and converting wasted carbon dioxide from incinerators, power plants or industrial activities.

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This "noise in the system" erodes our performance on a wide spectrum of cognitive activities, including the ability to recall details in our lives.

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Updating isn't the most taxing of activities, you just look for a system update in the About Phone menu and then give your blessing for the download to commence.

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Subchapter K today is a diffuse system directed at tax shelters and at the unpredictable activities of sophisticated partnerships.

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So your CRM system should be able to track a history of phone calls, appointments, emails and other activities with each and every person who does business with your company.

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The high court identified five factors -- facilities, staff, faculty, extracurricular activities and transportation -- to be used to measure a school system's compliance with the mandate of Brown.

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Closely related to this third group of activities is a critical question that we as a country now face: how to strengthen our financial system, including our system of financial regulation and supervision, to reduce the frequency and severity of bouts of financial instability in the future.

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