Shariah finance is an extension of Islamic law, pushing a faith-based alternative to Western banking.
When the land-based routes became less accessible after the collapse of the Mongol empire, European traders sought a sea-based alternative.
Randomized clinical trials should be designed to confirm whether cherry products could provide a dietary or non-medication based alternative to prevent gout attacks.
The Kansas City-based alternative trading site, which has managed to take over nearly 10% of the daily trading in Nasdaq-listed stocks since January, is now going to try to boost its share of trading in Big Board stocks.
Yours truly has had some pretty positive experiences with Babbel's existing product line, with the latest being a subscription-based alternative for iPad that makes it a lot more affordable to learn the basics of 11 different tongues.
Against the backdrop of a strong growth trajectory and relative economic resilience of the online games market, MOL AccessPortal (MOL) announces a strategic investment in a San Francisco-based alternative payment startup, Rixty to further expand its global reach to North and South America.
Republican Senators John Warner (VA), William Cohen (ME), and Richard Lugar (IN) broke ranks with President Bush last week in a letter that criticized him for seeking rapid development of space-based defenses, urged him to pursue a far less competent ground-based alternative and called for continued adherence to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
The four researchers developed multiple portfolios based on seven popular alternative indexing strategies.
The seller is Howard Marks, the billionaire money manager behind Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based publicly-traded alternative asset management firm.
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But much of that performance was based on investing in alternative assets, like hedge funds, leveraged buyout funds and other exotic financial instruments that plummeted during the recent financial crisis.
Needless to say, UNESCO has a great role to play, in order to implement the UN strategy of a human rights-based approach as the alternative to all forms of discrimination and stigmatization...
Mr Barber said the government had "set the cruel and mistaken objective of getting rid of the deficit in just four years" - and he called for a "movement for the alternative" based on fair tax and growth.
Dr. Singh and other researchers are studying how to better define and measure errors and what strategies best prevent them, such as using electronic health records to track patient test results and helping doctors with software that suggests an alternative diagnosis based on symptoms.
Use alcohol-based hand sanitizers as an alternative to hand washing when soap and water aren't available.
Putin has offered the use of a Russian radar based on Azerbaijan as an alternative.
It was founded by a Canadian EWB overseas volunteer and a Zambian coworker and provides alternative asset-based financing to rural Zambian entrepreneurs.
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The usual alternative being something based upon Roman or Napoleonic law.
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners hired the advisory arm of PIMCO, a big fund manager, in 2009 to develop alternative risk-based capital requirements for the industry's holdings of residential mortgage securities.
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The Centre for Alternative Technology, based near Machynlleth, attracts 65, 000 visitors a year to its research and demonstration centre, which aims to inspire, inform and enable people to explore new ways of living.
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Like Wells, it has an aggressive, transaction-based culture and has focused on alternative delivery channels, such as the Internet.
As an alternative to petroleum-based components, cellulose is the plastic's major ingredient.
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Fortunately, marketers are beginning to prioritize their mobile advertising efforts toward ad models that are an alternative to click-based models, such as signup advertising.
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"Schooner's MySQL and NoSQL solutions combined with the LSI WarpDrive card provide industry-leading performance for database and key-value stores, delivering over 9x performance throughput increase relative to hard drive configurations and over 3x performance throughput increase relative to alternative PCIe flash-based solutions, " said Dr. John Busch, founder and CTO, Schooner Information Technologies.
The New Options Project, in particular, seeks to build bridges to employers at alternative schools, community-based organizations and workforce development centers.
The alternative is a rules-based system in which the Fed begins to use quantitative tightening and easing to steady the value of the dollar as represented by the price of gold.
Although the bond business isn't as lucrative, it is a viable alternative for Hong Kong-based Chinese investment banks, which lag behind their more established global peers in sectors such as asset management.
There's a bit of a queue of bills amended in the Lords building up, and they all have to be approved or rejected by the Commons... and the Defamation Bill's being held in a kind of parliamentary purgatory while alternative press regulation proposals, based on the Conservatives' preferred idea of a Royal Charter, are negotiated.
Despite numerous and repeated efforts of manufacturers (Nokia, but also Samsung and HTC) and operators to develop an alternative to Android and Apple based on Windows, and despite the launch of numerous phones based on Windows with strong features, reviews and marketing support, the operating system remains cornered to less than 5% market share in smartphones.
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Measures that attempt to value a company based on its future prospects are no easy alternative.
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The idea seems to be to build up an alternative group of regional leaders, based on Dmitri Ayatskov, the governor of Saratov.
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