While to state that initial conditions on the extent of global integration are vastly different at the outset of Bretton Woods in 1946 and today is an understatement, the direction of regulatory changes have many common features.

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Indeed, Reedy's company had gone out of business in the weeks prior to the initial US raid because of the extent of suspicious payments.

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But even IBM is finding that the move to truly optimized and engineered systems takes more than just packaging some components together, which is about the extent of their effort with their initial Pure Systems.

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