The ethics panel has been examining allegations Jackson or one of his associates offered to raise funds for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in exchange for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.
The straightness of his back came from something else: that on his third attempt at escape from prison camp he was beaten senseless, and his skull and neck broken, by two Breton peasants with pitchforks, and was invalided out in exchange for a U-boat commander.
He orchestrated the deal under which the U.S. would pay its dues owned to the U.N. in exchange for reforms at the U.N.
Mr. Karzai has signaled his willingness to provide that immunity in exchange for a series of U.S. assurances, including that hundreds of Afghan detainees now held by U.S. troops would be turned over to the Afghan government.
In December, Bush announced an agreement between the United States, Britain and Libya for Libya to give up its weapons of mass destruction programs in exchange for the lifting of U.S. sanctions and better relations with the international community.
One U.S. senator suggested earlier this year that Iran may be holding Levinson in a bid to exchange him for Iranian officials seized by U.S. troops in Iraq in 2007.
For both foreign and domestic carmakers, the U.S. has become a more attractive place to assemble vehicles for sale in other countries for multiple reasons: currency exchange rates that effectively lowered U.S. labor costs, new free-trade pacts, high quality and available plant capacity.
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In short, Russian leaders hope to control or eliminate many elements of U.S. military power in exchange for strategic force reductions they will have to make anyway.
In exchange for Japanese access to F-16 technology, the U.S. government and industry will have access to valuable Japanese technology that would otherwise be unavailable.
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Recall that from the end of the Second World War until Nixon stopped redeeming dollars for gold in 1971, international exchange rate policy was anchored in a U.S. dollar backed by gold.
One way to get on a Englishman's wick is to offer a piffling 560 pence per share for the London Stock Exchange, the primary stock exchange in the U.K. and the largest in Europe.
Ruparelia bootstrapped his way to extreme wealth, starting as a teenager in the U.K. and then sensing the need for foreign exchange bureaus when he moved back to Uganda early in his career.
Many have already been taken: 1, 350 symbols are in use on the NYSE Arca alone, the biggest U.S. market for exchange-traded products.
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For widely held companies in the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission now has the legal authority to require shareholder nominees to be included with management's nominees for election to the board.
For the third time in six months, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has pushed off proposals to enhance exchange-traded fund trading by the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market.
It is also uncertain that the technologies ostensibly to be "flowed-back" to the United States in exchange for the F-16 technical data, etc. will be of comparable value to the U.S. defense industry as will, for example, insights provided to the Japanese into U.S. sophisticated design and manufacturing techniques.
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But during the War legislation and executive orders compelled private U.S. banks to transfer their gold coin reserves to the Fed in exchange for Federal Reserve Notes convertible into gold.
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In Ethiopia, for example, farmers receive cash and food in exchange for work on community projects through the government-led Productive Safety Nets Program, which both the U.S. and the UK support.
They only accept those dollars in exchange for products because they intend to use them, either to buy American products or to invest in the U.S. economy.
Until 1968, only the federal government could own uranium in the U.S. Although investors still cannot physically possess uranium and there is no formal exchange for the metal, as there is for gold, oil and copper, they can legally own it, if only on paper.
For U.S. investors without the wherewithal to jump around in international equties, there are exchange-traded funds like the iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund, which counts Siemens, power and gas company E.
But efforts to clamp down on hedge funds, by forcing them to register with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, have mostly been rebuffed in favor of the industry policing itself.
We'll begin with a study conducted by the RAND Institute for Civil Justice and commissioned by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2008.
Many companies in the index are reporting lower revenue growth outside of the U.S. for 4Q 2012 due to weak economic growth in Europe and less favorable foreign exchange rates.
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