candidates, mainly in foreign Policy.
Those remaining were mainly in foreign languages - where there was a dearth of candidates because of yet another slump in the take-up of the subject.
Along with the other two banks, Landsbanki and Glitnir, Kaupthing was brought down by the weight of debts, denominated mainly in foreign currency, that it was unable to refinance.
Barclays and HSBC increased their British mortgage books by £6.0 billion and £6.7 billion, respectively, but Northern Rock, which in February pledged to add £14 billion of home loans over two years, had lent less than a tenth of that by July.A big chunk of Barclays' and HSBC's profits came from trading, mainly in foreign exchange, commodities and interest-rate instruments (see chart).
Family migration policy, once basing citizens and resident foreigners' possibilities to bring in foreign family members mainly on the right to family life, is increasingly a tool states use to limit immigration and to push newcomers to integrate into civic and economic life.
They've come of age during South Korea's growth with all the attached benefits: virtually every one of them educated abroad (America, mainly), fluent in foreign languages, buzzing with international connections.
But opponents counter that an efficient firm, run on technical not political lines, has been destroyed.The government has an ambitious plan to expand oil output to 5m bpd by 2009, mainly by bringing in foreign state-owned oil firms.
The Treasury segment transacts mainly in money market, foreign exchange, and commission rate.
And for decades, I.B.M. was the emblematic multinational with deep roots in foreign markets, mainly in the developed nations of Europe and Japan.
The most exposed of all is Latvia, where more than 80% of all household borrowing is denominated in foreign currencies, mainly euros.
But as their currencies slide, the big vulnerability for the Poles, Hungarians and Romanians, especially, arises from the debt taken on by firms and households in foreign currency, mainly from foreign-owned banks.
