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... assault, wholly apart from his extortionate conduct. B. testified that, during the two- to thr...
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By Kerry Auriat In the last two decades, Canadians have seen a wholesale change in the ownership of many public services, moving from government to private ownership. [...] yet, during that time, I wonder aloud if quality of life hasn't improved or, at the very least, remained static. Many young people forgo home phone service entirely and instead use cellphones, alongside Internet-driven Skype, as their primary communications tools.
... monopoly to limit service and charge extortionate prices, governments believed they could do the job...
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... generations of state oppression and extortionate landlords. Their staple diet was potatoes, and for...
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... the identity of the informer - by extortionate means - to have the Crown withdraw the charges aga...
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... for married couples", including extortionate fines, destruction of property imprisonment and ev...
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... from local bootleggers who charge extortionate prices. In past years, such crackdowns have been s...
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The pro-poor philosophy of [Muhammad Yunus], and the Grameen Bank that he founded 30 years ago, flies in the face of the conventional banking approach. Where commercial banks would not lend to high-risk customers, the Grameen Bank took them on. Yunus hoped that a small amount of cash to start or expand a business would enable customers to rise out of poverty with dignity. "I used to make a sharp accusation that conventional banks are practising some kind of financial apartheid," he told a summit news conference last week. And when asked if the World Bank would be taking microcredit on board, Yunus was reticent. He said although the World Bank's previous president, Jim Wolfensohn, was a strong supporter of microcredit, even he had been unable to persuade his board of governors to take it...
... rates are low if compared to the extortionate rates charged by traditional moneylenders, they ar...
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A major debate neglected by accounting historians is the importance of landlords in the English agricultural revolution. Accounting evidence from the historical literature is used to test Marx's theory that, from around 1750, England's landlords played a pivotal role by adopting and then spreading the capitalist mentality and social relations by enclosures and changes in the management of their estates and tenants. It gives an accounting interpretation of Marx's theory of rent and argues that the available evidence supports his view that the conversion of English landlords to capitalism underlay the later stages of the agricultural revolution. The conclusion explains the linkages in Marx's theory between the agricultural and industrial revolutions and calls on accounting historians to c...
... tenants was legendary: demands for extortionate rents, and for loans that usually proved permanent...
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... intimidation tactics and charging extortionate prices for services within a wholesale vegetable m...
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... record levels of public debt, about extortionate tax rates, about "ree-form" of the Senate, but, ab...
