The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Such moments are rare indeed these days when one takes a book in the hand and is completely captivated by it after reading the first few pages. That happened to me recently when I started reading "The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh. "The Shadow Lines‚" Ghosh’s second novel‚ was published in 1988‚ four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime minister‚ Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Written when the homes of the Sikhs were
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Use and Abuse of Credit The use of credit cards is much more dangerous than use of checks or cash. Paying with cash is very easy; for knowing how much money is available and how much can be spent makes it very hard to get into debt. When paying with a check the process is a bit trickier; the exact balance has to be kept on the account at all time. Knowing what this balance is and continuously replenishing it can be quite hard. Nevertheless‚ even with a check consumers cannot get into a lot of trouble
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What are the main Methods of Credit Control? The most important function of the Central Bank is to control credit. The Central Bank uses various methods to control credit. This method can be classified into two broad categories. They are: Methods of Credit Controls Quantitative Methods 1. Bank rate policy 2. Open market operations 3. Variation of cash reserve ratio 4. ’Repo’ or Repurchase Transactions Qualitative Methods 1. Fixation of margin requirements 2. Rationing of credit 3. Regulation
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9-595-026 REV: OCTOBER 2‚ 2002 V. KASTURI RANGAN Citibank: Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific (A) On a rainy afternoon in 1989‚ Rana Talwar‚ head of Citibank’s Asia Pacific Consumer Bank‚ reflected upon the 11 years that had gone by since the Consumer Bank had established its consumer business in Asia. The branch banking business operations in 15 countries throughout Asia Pacific and the Middle East projected Citibank as a prestigious‚ consumer-oriented international bank and as the
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Leased Lines Below what speed are there different leased line standards in different parts of the world? In the text “Business data networks and telecommunications” the author points out that leased lines vary worldwide from 56 kbps to several gigabits per second‚ depending on the technology used. The lowest speeds of these leased lines are 56 or 64 kbps in the United States‚ and 64 kbps in Europe. These speeds are comparable to modem speeds and are rarely installed. The typical wiring for these
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Walk the Line Release Date: 11/18/05 Running Length: 134 mins Rating: PG-13 (Profanity‚ drugs) Cast: Joaquin Phoenix‚ Reese Witherspoon‚ Ginnifer Goodwin‚ Robert Patrick‚ Dallas Roberts‚ Dan John Miller‚ Larry Bagby‚ Shelby Lynne Director: James Mangold Producers: James Keach‚ Cathy Konrad Screenplay: Gill Dennis & James Mangold Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael Music: Johnny Cash‚ T Bone Burnett Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatre: Empire Theatres Date: 12/12/05 Time: 7:15 P.M.
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2 = 20 marks) What is instruction level parallelism? 2. What are the advantages of loop unrolling? 3. What are the limitations of VLIW? 4. What is the use of branch-target buffer? 5. Distinguish between shared memory multiprocessor and message-passing multiprocessor. 6. Differentiate multithreading computers from multiprocessor systems 7. Define the terms cache miss and cache hit. 9. 10. 2 11 8. 11 1. What is RAID? What is a multi-core
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Dear Mr. D‚ In classes most students don’t feel like doing there work but they have to. Occasionally‚ students will really want to do their school work. I feel that if we have laptops‚ students will be more into school and their school work. I think laptops would be a good idea because behavior issues will go down‚ students will concentrate more‚ and students will be more organized. They could be a good tool and they could really make an effect on the school day. If we got laptops
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The Line to the Lunches Think back to when you were a kid and you waited anxiously for the whole school year to be over with so you could do that one special thing. For my friends and I it was going to the big‚ red bricked church down the road and getting free sack lunches. The older I got the roles had been switched‚ from receiving the lunches‚ to providing the lunches for the anxiously waiting kids. Community service changes the life of you‚ and also the lives of others. Even though it is cliché
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has risen‚ the minimum wage has remained stagnant‚ creating historic profit margins for companies that employ minimum wage workers. This uneven balance of the distribution of wealth is causing a significant amount of our population to suffer below the poverty line. Today‚ I urge you to vote in favor of this legislation in order to ensure that every single citizen of our country will be able to live a comfortable life‚ above the poverty line. The first benefit of raising the minimum wage is that such
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