Central banks' second function is macroeconomic stabilisation, setting interest rates to keep inflation in check without causing the economy to stop and start.
The Russian leadership is painfully aware that it still does not have the financial or military resources to pit itself against the United States, let alone to woo back the countries of Central Asia a second time.
Surrey, a municipality south of the city - whose mayor was rated one of the best in the world - is becoming the second central business district for the metro Vancouver area and is linked by SkyTrain to downtown.
The renewed decline came as the central bank held the second in a series of currency auctions.
He had just published his diaries, which made it sound as though he, not Churchill, had been central to winning the Second World War.
European and U.S. stocks fell after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke quashed any hopes of further quantitative easing and as investors debated the European Central Bank's second liquidity injection.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke drew heavy fire after the central bank announced a second round of quantitative easing on November 2, with many outspoken critics accusing his policies of ineffective.
And many economists believe the assumptions made by the "troika" of the European Commission, International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in the second bailout for example, that the Greek economy would contract only 4.7% this year are too optimistic.
Chicago's central business district has the second-largest concentration of office space in North America.
Fair, the Orange are deep, motivated, and intent on bringing a second title to central New York.
The Abramsons lived at the Ardsley, an Art Deco building at Ninety-second Street and Central Park West.
Omer Kaya, 33, of Leigh-on-Sea, was shot in the neck on Tuesday while sightseeing in San Pedro Sula, the Central American country's second city.
But if you want to destroy the euro - the second most important central bank in the world now says it will be there to stop you.
France and Britain are, however, probably excluded: the first because it had Mr Delors, and because it made such a fuss over the central bank, and the second because it has become an unwritten rule in Brussels that only a country in the single currency can supply the commission's president.
Sensors installed throughout the network send data about local grid conditions to a central computer, 30 times a second.
Honduras, the second poorest country in Central America, suffers from extraordinarily unequal distribution of income, as well as high underemployment.
Prices outside the central region grew slower in the second quarter, rising 0.4% quarter-to-quarter compared with a 1.1% gain in the previous three months.
Banks in the second quarter bought 69.4 metric tons during the second quarter demonstrating that central banks are continuing to turn to gold to diversify their reserves.
Second, the European Central Bank took action on Friday in advance of the shocking downgrades on Monday of Spain's banks by Moody's, by relaxing the criteria for the loans that it and Spain's central bank make to Spanish banks.
"I totally ignored my parents the second we got into Grand Central, " she recalled.
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As in most of the central belt constituencies, the SNP is second here.
Indeed, it goes straight to the heart of what, to me, is the central mystery of the president's second term.
The second risk is that the central bankers pay too much attention to potential weakness while underestimating the dangers from inflation.
Central defender Ibrahima Sonko, from English second division club Brentford, gets his first call up in the place of Lamine Diatta who is injured.
The Center was honored to have as its second guest former Director of Central Intelligence and the Center's National Security Advisory Council Co-Chairman, Hon.
The master bedroom and bathroom are one big space with their own entryway that opens up to a central glass atrium that stretches to the second story.
In a mesmerising passage of violence that mirrors the central scene of the trilogy's second volume, Deza strikes and at the same time relearns a terrible lesson.
Recently, the prime minister has addressed one of the big frozen questions of central Europe: the expulsion after the second world war of 3m-plus Germans and Hungarians from the former Czechoslovakia.
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The government wants to keep interest rates low to boost growth - but last week, Hungary's central bank increased rates for the the second month in a row, to 7% from 6.5%.
Last month, he told congressional investigators that the U.S. might have prevented a second attack that killed two Central Intelligence Agency contractors if the military had been able to get a fighter jet to Benghazi as soon as possible, according to a partial transcript of an April interview released by House Republicans.
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