JUST OVER a year ago, National Direct, a sports collectibles business in Toronto, needed the funds to acquire inventory for a major sales campaign. While the $5 million company had an established track record, conventional lenders weren't convinced of its ability to turn over the inventory.
Tomoe Terakoshi, whose son Takeshi went missing while fishing in the Sea of Japan in 1963 and has since lived in North Korea, said Friday she was told during a visit to the North in 2000 that her son could return provided 500 million yen would be given in exchange.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters)—With DVD sales expected to reach $21 billion next year, it may be comforting for consumers to know used discs now have a second life as tradable currency on a year-old Web site called Peerflix.
Theoretically, the value of a currency is determined by the economic fundamentals of its country, such as interest rates, inflation rates and national income. These fundamentals have an effect on trade and capital flows and hence the demand and supply of the currency.
This study evaluated hospital involvement in pharmacy education. Databases from four U.S. National Clinical Pharmacy Services Studies and the American Hospital Association permitted detailed trend analysis.
Introduction: Disease surveillance databases can range in size into the terabytes, making rapid, meaningful analysis and conclusions about the data impracticable and expensive.
