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  • The "fewer rights" bit may cause some hand-wringing, butit seems to me apowerfulcharge to levelat a systemin which so few arrests end in convictions.

    Grayling debuts his own soundbite 2009

  • When designing our systemin the light of those systems, our policymakers had trouble about how to handle the symbolic nature of those monarchs.

    Policy Innovation - President's Office and its role in our democracy. 2008

  • The public school systemin the United States, however flawed, has been the country’s most important civic institution.

    Where education reform is heading: From extreme to extremum Valerie Strauss 2010

  • It begins with this definition: "Thegold standardis amonetary systemin which a region's common media of exchange are paper notes that are normally freely convertible into pre-set, fixed quantities ofgold.

    Your funny money, and profiting from scarcity 2008

  • 10,000,000 L. on an average of years now, and formerly much less -- is all which is held against the liabilities of Lombard Street; and if that were all, we might well be amazed at the immense development of our credit systemin plain English. at the immense amount of our debts payable on demand, and the smallness of the sum of actual money which we keep to pay them if demanded.

    Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851

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