The valuation of securities plays a role in determining the expansion and contraction of credits and the appropriate collateralisation of bank loans .

Certain frogs change colour between night and day, as light and moisture stimulate the pigment cells and cause them to expand or contract.

A peripheral is a device that is used to put information into or get information out of the computer.

It is really the combination of space and time.

That's what the expansion of the universe or space means.

As anticipated by a sharp and broad based fall in the global manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index ( PMI ) to well below the contraction expansion threshold , as well as by the above mentioned drops in both business and consumer confidence , global economic activity remained very weak , after having contracted sharply across all of the main economic areas in the last quarter of 2008 .

Such industrial mismatches become larger during recessions, reflecting greater churn in the labor market as workers move between shrinking and expanding sectors but they decline as the economy recovers.

1 Lower skilled workers also experienced a significant contraction in employment .

Monetary policy strategy

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In connection with the above , the ECB underlines that borrowing with short maturity does not entail a risk of a similar magnitude compared to borrowing with a longer maturity .

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large scale evolution.

to amplify the trade recovery via the same Note Latest observation refers to December 2009 , except for mechanisms which seemed to exacerbate the extra euro area , the United Kingdom and other EU Member States ( November 2009 ) . trade contraction .

In order to translate these chances into achievements , Europe would greatly benefit from more flexible labour and product markets so as to speed up the necessary changeover from contracting to expanding activities and to minimise adjustment costs .

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Expansion After spinning off América Móvil, Telmex started an expansion plan, which started with the purchase of Guatemala's Telgua.

111 the international financial turbulence , however , continued to be a source of uncertainty and risks .

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1 The main factor behind the collapse in trade was the sharp contraction in global demand .

It had failed to prevent the money supply from contracting in the early stages of the Great Depression.

Other forms of fungal growth include intercalary extension (longitudinal expansion of hyphal compartments that are below the apex) as in the case of some endophytic fungi, or growth by volume expansion during the development of mushroom stipes and other large organs.

When cold ground or surface water come into contact with hot rock or magma it superheats and explodes, fracturing the surrounding rock and thrusting out a mixture of steam, water, ash, volcanic bombs, and volcanic blocks.

A downturn suffered by one subsidiary, for instance, can be counterbalanced by stability, or even expansion, in another division.

This was a result of sharply contracting domestic demand and lower capital inflows in the region as a result of the intensification of the global financial crisis .

A moderate monthly contraction in the outstanding amount of loans to non financial corporations has been observed over recent months .

You can call it suburban sprawl.

So the expansion slows down with time.

After the Big Bang, the universe is continuously expanding.

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By the summer of 2009 employment was contracting at the sharpest rate since the second quarter of 1993 .

When the borrowings are expressed , payable or repayable in the currency of a Member State with a derogation , they may be concluded only after consultation with the competent authorities of that State .

As long as stock prices are buoyant, business leaders are not scared of future taxes or of policy uncertainty.

Esperanto is a huge expansion of my horizon.

The city is one of the oldest in the northeast of the country.

He believed in the global expansion of his company.

Historical significance The Umayyad caliphate was marked both by territorial expansion and by the administrative and cultural problems that such expansion created.

Master Levels for Doom II , an expansion pack that includes 21 new levels, was released on December 26, 1995 by id Software.

The outstanding amount of MFI loans to the private sector contracted somewhat further in April .

The strong market reaction to the Russian default led to mounting concerns about a global credit crunch .

This confirmed the anticipated broadening of the economic recovery and pointed to a more self sustaining nature of economic expansion in the euro area .

Thermal expansion A solid is said to be isotropic if the expansion of solid is equal in all directions when thermal energy is provided to the solid.

But a manufacturing boom will not happen by itself.