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As many as 100,000 men living in states under Confederate control would serve in the Union Army or pro-Union guerrilla groups. Although Southern Unionists came from all classes, most differed socially, culturally, and economically from the regions dominant pre-war planter class .
This sparked an ongoing government-debt crisis after Puerto Rico's general obligation bonds were downgraded to speculative non-investment grade ("junk status") by three credit-rating agencies. In terms of financial control, almost 9.6%—or about $1.5 billion—of Puerto Rico's central government budget expenses for FY2014 is expected to be ...
The Texas Dow Employees Credit Union was founded by employees of Dow Chemical Company in December 1954, receiving its charter from the State Attorney General that month. [3] [4] Its first organizational meeting was held in the Freeport Junior High auditorium in Freeport, Texas, on January 3, 1955, with memberships available for deposits of up to five dollars. [3]
Spire Credit Union (stylized SPIRE Credit Union) was a not-for-profit financial cooperative that was founded as the Twin City Co-ops Credit Union in 1934 and changed its name to Spire Credit Union on March 31, 2008. [1] Spire was headquartered in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, served over 153,000 members, and controlled more than $2.1 billion in ...
The European Union creates a European Financial Stability Facility in response to the looming sovereign debt crisis of seeveral member states, enabling member states to guarantee their bonds with the full weight of the bloc, thus lowering the interest rates at which these can be placed on the market, alongside other mechannisms aiming to ...
At the end of 2001, Canada's credit union sector consisted of 681 credit unions and 914 caisses populaires, with more than 3,600 locations and 4,100 automated teller machines. [45] By the end of 2019, consolidation reduced this number to 251 credits unions and caisses populaires outside Quebec, according to the Canadian Credit Union Association ...
The EEA Treaty between the European Union countries and the EFTA countries—transposed into Norwegian law via "EØS-loven" [165] —describes the procedures for implementing European Union rules in Norway and the other EFTA countries. Norway is a highly integrated member of most sectors of the EU internal market.
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (/ ˈ ʃ w ɔːr t s ə n ɛ ɡ ər / SHWORT-sə-neg-ər, Austrian German: [ˈarnɔlt ˈaːlɔʏs ˈʃvartsn̩ˌɛɡɐ] ⓘ; born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder, known for his roles in high-profile action films.