However, thesenovels' explicitacknowledgment of their characters' socialandethnicbackgroundsmeant thatthey were notconsidered "raceless" in the old-fashionedsense.
Firms that list on Germany's Neuer Markt must choose between accepted American or international accounting principles and must file quarterly accounts in German and English an explicitacknowledgment that the market for their shares is international.