Invited to take part in Curiosity, CLUI has lent seven Rolodexes containing the business cards of contractors hired by Los Alamos: mundane functionaries at the secret heart of the Cold War.
The bottle, which was inspired by the company's famously elegant cigarette lighters, is as come-hither as the pale pink juice it contains, lending a whole new meaning to the term "smoking".
The bottle, which was inspired by the company's elegant cigarette lighters, is as come-hither as the pale pink juice it contains, lending a whole new meaning to the term "smoking".
Last year, financing all but dried up when the government told commercial banks to stop lending as a way to contain rampant inflation.
It should also contain provisions for lending into arrears: lenders willing to provide credit to a country going through a restructuring would receive priority treatment.
Administration officials and experts say that the Middle East debts, estimated at about $45 billion, compared with $40 billion for the group of leading industrial countries known as the Paris Club, contains large sums lent to Iraq by Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries during Iraq's war with Iran in the 1980's.
Despite renewed regulatory efforts at the state and federal level to protect consumers, the battle to contain payday lending sometimes looks like an endless race that regulators can never win.
This echoes assessments from many other economists, many of whom expect the Chinese authorities to step up measures to contain bank lending, including nudging up interest rates again later this year.
Hardly a day goes by when my email inbox does not contain an offer to lend me $1,000 or so, no questions asked.
It was Illich who lent Hyde a book of anthropology that contained a chapter about Marcel Mauss's essay on gift exchange.
