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81Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act (Singapore) — Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act A police officer equipped with a firearm and handcuffs An Act to make temporary provisions for the maintenance of public order, the control of supplies by sea to Singapore, and the prevention of strikes and …
82England, Bank of — ▪ central bank of United Kingdom the central bank of the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are in the central financial district of the City of London (London, City of). The Bank of England was incorporated by act of Parliament in 1694 with …
83Forestry in Ghana — Forests cover about one third of Ghana s total area, with commercial forestry concentrated in the southern parts of the country. This sector accounted for 4.2 percent of GDP in 1990; timber was the country s third largest foreign exchange earner …
84swap agreement — (53B) The term swap agreement (A) means (i) any agreement, including the terms and conditions incorporated by reference in such agreement, which is (I) an interest rate swap, option, future, or forward agreement, including a rate floor, rate cap …
85Norman Coates — Lieutenant Colonel Norman Coates M.C. (27 April 1890 – 21 March 1966) was a British army officer, School Head Master, and briefly a Conservative politician. First employed as a trainee accountant, he was given a commission when he enlisted in the …
86Indirect Quotation — A foreign exchange term for the number of units of foreign currency that can be exchanged for one unit of domestic currency. The most common example of an indirect quotation outside the US is the sterling/dollar rate. US banks use indirect… …
87Joseph Hirshhorn — Joseph Herman Hirshhorn (1899 1981) was an entrepreneur, financier and art collector. Born in Latvia, the twelfth of thirteen children, Hirshhorn emigrated to the United States with his widowed mother at the age of six.Hirshhorn went to work as… …
88Cottage Industries Exposition Limited — Type Public Industry Carpets and Handicrafts Founded 1978 Headquarters New Delhi, India Dubai, UAE Key people A R …
89France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
90United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
