Word: alterity
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...conserve the water during the flood season. The source of the Blue Nile, or Lake Tana, is generally agreed to be the place best suited for a dam site. With just such a dam in mind, England has made a recent treaty with Ethiopia stating that neither government could alter the water supply without the consent of the other. As no treaty exists between England and Italy, it is evident that the fate of the Nile valley would rest entirely with the Italians should they subdue the Ethiopian government...
...welter of advice the unfortunate Freshman must hearken to in his first few weeks, he can remember one small but significant idea, and retain it throughout his college career, he will have done well. No amount of teaching, no imposing array of facts, should lead a man to alter his fundamental outlook on life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light of a single book or a single lecture he is unable to account rationally for beliefs held since childhood should not lead...
...giving him power to appoint and remove at will the Governor and Vice Governor. To this Administration-controlled Board it gave centralized powers to fix rediscount rates and conduct open-market operations (powers that had previously belonged to the twelve regional Reserve Banks throughout the land); authority to alter reserve requirements, and to admit or deny virtually any collateral for rediscount. As the bill emerged after Senator Glass had worked on it, the Federal Reserve Board (renamed the "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System") would be composed of seven members, only four of them belonging to the same...
...drawings for the newspapers, had them accepted, prowled through the museums, observed the most leisurely, tolerant culture of pre-War Germany. In these fine years he did four of the water colors on view last week in Munich, including well-rendered "architectural" pictures of Munich's Alter Hof (see cut) and of its National Theatre, a country house outside Munich. It all ended in August 1914. Hitler, a humble, alien lover of monarchical Germany, enlisted, not in the Austrian Army, but in the 16th Infantry Regiment of the King of Bavaria...
Governor Eccles wanted to give the Board power to alter at will and in any degree the reserves that member banks must by law maintain, so that it might apply brakes to any runaway credit inflation. The Glass Bill limits the possible upping of reserve requirements to double the present ratios. The Eccles draft would have made any & all bank assets, short-or longterm, liquid or frozen, eligible for rediscount. The Glass Bill provides for special Reserve Bank advances on ineligible paper in emergencies only. And thus throughout Title II Governor Eccles and Senator Glass both achieved their original aims...