The Cypriot central bank, alarmed at the number of defaced banknotes in circulation, appealed to doodlers Wednesday to resist the temptation to scrawl on the country's currency.

由于正在使用中的钞票有相当数量已被“毁容”，塞浦路斯中央银行近日呼吁那些涂鸦爱好者们立即停止在该国流通货币上胡写乱画的行为。

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The bank said the circulation of its dual-currency credit card reached 10 million by the end of 2006, a jump of 100 percent from 2005, and accounted for 35 percent of the credit card market in China.

据招行透露，双币卡的流通卡数截至去年年底达到1000万张，比2005年翻了一番，占国内信用卡市场的35%。

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Money in the bank benefits the community, by bringing unused capital into circulation and making it available for others to borrow.

钱存在银行里，对于通过不使用的货币进行流通并且可以使其他人进行借贷，提供了很好的帮助。

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Critics might fret that the recent slowdown in the growth in Japan's monetary base (banks' reserves at the central bank plus notes and coins in circulation) suggests that the Bank of Japan has tightened policy.

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His policy of expanding "power money"--cash in circulation plus bank reserves--will feed inflation, which is currently at 5.2%.

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And if central bankers sought to control money, however defined, by targeting the monetary base cash in circulation and commercial-bank reserves held with the central bank they lost control of the short-term interest rate, which might move erratically and damage the economy.

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