Investors can also buy and sell shares through a resale program, which functions like a secondary market.

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An eligible educational institution is any college, university, vocational school, or other post-secondary educational institution eligible to participate in a student aid program administered by the Department of Education.

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This SharesPost loan program is part of a larger industry around the secondary markets that has grown in recent years particularly with the growth of Facebook.

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"The developments in the Arab world and the crisis in the West's relations with Iran over the nuclear program has resulted in Afghanistan being relegated into a secondary issue for the U.S. and the West, " read one editorial in 8-Subh, the country's largest private newspaper, last month.

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Until now, the only way to buy a Formula One Ferrari was on the secondary auction market or through Ferrari's exclusive, four-year-old F-1 Clienti program, to which clients must be invited by the company.

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This will probably take the form of a bond buying program using the Emergency Stability Mechanism and the ECB to help push down borrowing costs via both primary and secondary purchases of Spanish sovereign debt.

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