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With governments, central banks, or the IMF as lenders and insurer of last resort there is little counterparty risk. Private counterparties are a whole different ballgame. They are loth and slow to pay. Dismayed creditors have learned this lesson in Russia in 1998. Investors in derivatives get acquainted with it in the 2001-2 Enron affair. Mr.
In his e-mail of September 1, 1998, he explained the way he sees the relationship between the print media and the Internet: "I certainly find both the print media and the Internet very useful, and am very excited about the potential of the Internet as a mass communication medium in the coming years.
For a related story, see "A Bush Dance", in "Joe Wilson and His Mates". A. L., 1998. Black Joe And when we heard the cry of "Wh-i-i-te Joe!" which we did with difficulty and after several tries though Black Joe's ears were of the keenest we knew that I was overdue at home, or absent without leave, and was probably in for a warming, as the old folk called it.
The Technorealism website first appeared on the Web on March 12, 1998. According to the website, technorealism is "an attempt to assess the social and political implications of technologies so that we might all have more control over the shape of our future.
The eight principles of Technorealism Overview have been signed by over 1,472 people between March 12 and August 20, 1998. A great misconception of our time is the idea that technologies are completely free of bias that because they are inanimate artifacts, they don't promote certain kinds of behaviors over others.
That, for example, of Samuel Pepys. Pepys, living in the turbulent, densely populated London of our time, and recording day by day the events coming under his observation, would probably have his audience of posterity limited to a little circle of venerating descendants who would certainly bore the neighbours. It is quite easy to picture the members of that circle in the year 1998, or 2024.
As for journalists, the librarians will probably continue being useful, as stated by Peter Raggett, Deputy-Head of the OECD Library, in his e-mail of September 18, 1998: "I have to filter the information for my clients. This means that I must be familiar with the sites which contain useful links. In addition I expect that there will be an expansion in Internet use for education and research.
Produced by the ESTC editorial offices at the University of California, Riverside, and the British Library, in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society and over 1,600 libraries worldwide, the file continues to be updated and expanded daily. ESTC serves as a comprehensive bibliography of the hand-press era and as a census of surviving copies. ESTC included 420,000 records as of June 1998.
The team includes about twelve persons who meet on Thursday evenings in a Parisian café. When interviewed in Le Monde of March 23, 1998, Christian Debraisne, who is responsible for the composition, explained: "With the Internet, we found a space for free expression and, as a bonus, there were no printing and distribution problems.
Even if audiovisual and video techniques are more and more present in the on-line press, the most important thing is still its content, as Jean-Pierre Cloutier, the editor of the Chroniques de Cybérie, reminded us in his e-mail of June 8, 1998: "For the Chroniques de Cybérie, we could launch and maintain a formula because of the relatively low entry costs in this medium.
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