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THIS ESSAY DEALS WITH THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSIONS OF BEIRUT'S PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION, FOCUSING ON THE SUNNI COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ITS POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS FROM THE TIME OF INDEPENDENCE UNTIL TODAY. NEW POLITICAL FORCES EMERGING SINCE THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR HAVE DISRUPTED THE TRADITIONAL ALLIANCES BETWEEN RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL POWERS, AT LEAST TEMPORARILY. AS A RESULT, THE SPECIFICALLY RELIGIOUS SPACES OF THE INNER CITY, SUCH AS MOSQUES AND CEMETERIES, HAVE BECOME A BATTLEGROUND IN THE WIDER STRUGGLE OVER THE IDENTITY OF THE SUNNI POPULATION AND THE POLITICAL CONTROL OF ITS SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS.

Coast Guard, Strategic Planning Staff, Washington, D.C. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Author corporate affiliation: Arlington Institute, Va. ; Subject code: IJC ; Subject code: IJD ; Subject code: SBC ; Subject code: SBD ; Subject code: SC ; Subject code: SDB ; Subject code: SDE ; Subject code: WB ; Subject code: WOH ; Subject code: YCJ

Ideas of a coordinated social dimension to integration have recently been given greater weight. Examines to what extent 'ex-ante' harmonisation is desirable or necessary. Then focuses on 'ex-post' harmonisation resulting from tax harmonisation which will eventually follow from the Single Market's completion. (SJK)

Liquidity involves the degree to which an asset can be bought or sold in the market without affecting its price. The 2007 to 2009 financial crisis was characterized by a decrease in liquidity and necessitated the introduction of Basel III capital and liquidity regulation in 2010. In this book, we apply such regulation on a broad cross-section of countries in order to understand and demonstrate the implications of Basel III. This book summarizes the defining features of the Basel I, II, and III Accords and their perceived shortcomings as well as the role of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in promulgating international banking regulation. In addition, we compare the accords in terms of their ability to determine the capital adequacy of banks and assign risk-weights to assets.

AbstractThis is a mathematical and statistical study of the supply operations at a typical Air Force base. The objective of the study is to determine the effect upon support cost of different logistics policies, involving changes in safety level and requisitioning frequency. This effect is found to vary according to the price and demand rate of the item being considered, and the study indicates that large monetary savings can be realized by adopting different stocking and requiritioning policies dependent upon item demand and price. Thus, the study indicates that it is more economical to have items costing under $10 requisitioned from the depot every three or six months, rather than every month, even if obsolescence charges on base stocks are as high as 50 per cent per year. The study has also indicated that standby stockage of cheap (under $10), low demand items is desirable because the cost of such stockage tends to be less than the costs incurred by premium supply action when a demand for such an item ariees.