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...In 1948, Project Rand (a contraction of “research and development”) was born to connect military planning with American scientific discovery....
...Phase 3 trials of Sputnik V began in September on 30,000 volunteers....
...An early paper published by the Rand Corporation is The Prediction of Social and Technological Events (1949)....
...South Africa's rand also makes it into the top five....
...In early trading in London, the South African rand, hit hard by new data showing the country’s economy had contracted for the first time since 2009, resumed a drop that has left it the worst-performing emerging...
...One country can unleash mayhem by hacking another country’s information systems and infrastructure; this, says the Rand Corporation, is an increasingly brazen threat to global stability....
...John V Orth William Rand Kenan, Jr Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, US...
...The sub-group trying to manipulate the price of the rand, which has the code ZAR, was called “ZAR Domination”....
...The Chilean peso, South African rand and Indonesian rupiah also strengthened....
...John V Orth William Rand Kenan, Jr Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, US...
...For Russia v the west, additional irritation is looming. All this is reminiscent of the cold war days, except that there is nothing now to justify such a conflict....
...The rand has halved in value since President Jacob Zuma came to power in 2009....
...In the emerging market world, the dollar was up 2.2 per cent against the South African rand, 1.7 per cent against the Mexican peso and 0.6 per cent versus the Brazilian rand — the latter also unsettled by...
...Second, we find Rand Paul having been denied a place on the main stage of the last Republican debate and taking umbrage by declining to participate altogether....
...- BNY Mellon had some v special interns. - Amazon and a reminder that there is no right to an upper middle class lifestyle. - London’s black cabs vs the (uber) tide....
...our beleaguered president Jacob Zuma has been pushing for a new nuclear build: one that will add up to nine new reactors to our coastline; that will cost well over a trillion of our steadily depreciating rand...
...feels like we’re hitting fresh cycle lows for a currency somewhere with yesterday’s highlights being the Turkish Lira briefly sliding past 3 against the Dollar for the first time ever, the South African Rand...
...Insurance markets would be thrown into disarray, with premiums estimated to increase as much 47 per cent in the affected states, according to the Rand Corporation think-tank....
...John V Orth, William Rand Kenan, Jr Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, US...
...Seven years earlier his opposition to reform led to the Supreme Court case McConnell v Federal Election Commission....
...the recent midterm vote, there is fevered speculation about whether the genial Bush will become a 2016 Republican presidential candidate – and thus potentially pave the way for a bizarrely dynastic Bush v...
...Hopefully the missing wealth creators have merely withdrawn their labour for a while, like the entrepreneurs in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, to remind us how much they matter....
...To be fair to McCain, he has actually been very principled in his opposition to torture – so perhaps the debate is better phrased as libertarians v neocons; or isolationists v interventionists....
...John V. Orth, William Rand Kenan, Jr Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, US...
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