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Examples
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"If you ever get well Aunt 'Tella's going to take you to the circus, or the seashore, or somewheres."
A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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"Is Number Seventeen prepared for the operation?" he heard some one ask, and at the same moment Aunt 'Tella's fingers closed on his like a vise.
A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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Di Tella and MacCulloch do, as the remainder of their abstract explains: Finally, we present a model explaining the corruption-left connection.
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In a paper presented to the Royal Economic Society's annual conference, Juan Cruces of Argentina's Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Christoph Trebesch of the Free University Berlin looked at the precise losses —or haircuts—suffered by creditors in all 202 sovereign restructurings with foreign banks and bondholders between 1970 and 2007, covering 68 countries.
Though a Debt-Default Would Hurt, Investors May Not Give Up on Greece Paul Hannon 2011
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Di Tella and MacCulloch present some fascinating evidence.
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To avoid this embarassment, Di Tella and MacCulloch have to construct a model where the anti-market orientation of the Third World makes sense, beginning with a premise - "an act of corruption is more revealing about the fairness type of a rich capitalist than of a poor bureaucrat" - that you need graduate training in economics to understand.
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Government expenditures increased last year by 40% while revenues were up by only 30%, according to Universidad Torcuato Di Tella economist Pablo Guidotti.
Argentina's Capital Flight Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2012
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"She's the president, but she behaves like a queen, whereas the real president was him and he died," said Alejandro Bonvecchi, a political scientist and professor at Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires.
Behind the Scenes of Argentina's Power Couple Matt Moffett 2010
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Torcuato di Tella professor and political analyst Ana Maria Mustapic said: Everyone will be very cautious until the situation becomes clear...
Argentina's Kirchner to Have Surgery for Thyroid Cancer Matt Moffet 2011
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So far, Di Tella and MacCulloch seems eerily similar to a passage in Nobel-prize-worthy Anne Krueger's "The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society," published over three decades ago: If the market mechanism is suspect, the inevitable temptation is to resort to greater and greater intervention, thereby increasing the amount of economic activity devoted to rent seeking.
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