"The amount," said the Justice, "is not unreasonable.Ransie Bilbro, you are ordered by the Court to pay the amount of five dollars before the decree of divorce is issued."

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We call them consols because, in the early 1700s, the British Government issued what they called consols or consolidated debt of the British Crown that paid a certain amount of pound sterling every six months forever.

我们称之为公债是因为早在十八世纪初,英国政府规定他们称之为英国皇家,统合公债或者联合公债,要求永久性地,每六个月支付一定数量的英镑

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Mr Altman is especially worried by the large amount of low-quality debt issued in recent years, much of it to finance private-equity deals.

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So they were only exposed to that risk of a run on the amount of mortgages that they had issued but which were not yet in a bond.

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There are signs, however, that private-sector investors' appetite for government debt may be just about sated, as they contemplate the vast amount of government bonds that are due to be issued this year and the ending of QE programmes.

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