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The value of the capital in bank vaults, therefore, fell drastically reducing their ability to make loans to solid non-speculative businesses.
Paul A. London: Unemployment and the Deficit: The Disconnect Paul A. London 2011
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At the end of the class, I'd want students to come out with a sense of what fantasy and science fiction can do that non-speculative literature can't, how to read books with that in mind, and how to find books in the genres that they'd enjoy.
MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books That Should Be Assigned in School 2009
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The value of the capital in bank vaults, therefore, fell drastically reducing their ability to make loans to solid non-speculative businesses.
Paul A. London: Unemployment and the Deficit: The Disconnect Paul A. London 2011
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Holly Phillips 'elegiac, fine-grained "Summer Ice" is reminiscent of Le Guin's non-speculative fiction and would hold its own in a literary fiction venue.
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Pension funds total $126 billion and could be invested by a state bank in non-speculative sources.
Pearl Korn: North Dakota -- A Template For Our Economic Recovery Pearl Korn 2010
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US manufacturers can and do engage in non-speculative hedging of their own operational and pricing risks stemming from commodity price uncertainty.
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg: Fed Intervention in Commodity Futures: A Case for Reverse Sterilization Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg 2010
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Holly Phillips 'elegiac, fine-grained "Summer Ice" is reminiscent of Le Guin's non-speculative fiction and would hold its own in a literary fiction venue.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Optimistic SF of Shine: The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades! Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010
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Historically (i.e., growing-up) the only books I read twice were The Hobbit, Dune, A Princess of Mars, and the non-speculative The World According to Garp.
MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books Worth Reading Twice 2008
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Measuring this metric is difficult: -- While the potential for speculative investment is large, it is difficult to separate such activity from non-speculative investment -- or rather, investment based on fundamental growth possibilities compared with technical trading in the short term.
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Pension funds total $126 billion and could be invested by a state bank in non-speculative sources.
Pearl Korn: North Dakota -- A Template For Our Economic Recovery Pearl Korn 2010
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