Again, a serious subject - although perhaps this produced rather less of immediate interest.
The British had no immediate interest in these barren tribal territories, which were mostly claimed by Afghanistan.
And therefore it's that voice from the side, the voice that speaks not to party politics and immediate interest, but to the innermost soul of the human within us, the divine within us, which actually succeeds because it has no power at all.
So when they turned to biotechnology in the 1990s to help boost their flagging sales and offset high development costs, such companies focused on easy traits that would be of immediate interest to farmers, their traditional customer, rather than to food manufacturers or shoppers.
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Even with the 3D ticket-price bump factored in, this is a genuine leap in immediate viewer interest.
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While traditionally one would trade bonds to make such bets, by entering into either side of an interest rate swap agreement, you would gain immediate exposure to interest rate movements with virtually no initial cash outlay.
As for robotics, the big immediate area of interest is in telerobotics, Loeb said.
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This too would have an immediate impact on interest rates and inflationary expectations.
The Kochs have gone well beyond their immediate self-interest, however, funding organizations that aim to push the country in a libertarian direction.
But every country has an immediate, obvious interest in avoiding pandemics.
Many predict that a currency board would come under immediate pressure, forcing interest rates sky-high.
"What we see at Saks 5th Avenue is an immediate uptick in the interest of a designer that is involved with this kind of event, " said Michael Fink, women's senior fashion director, Saks 5th Avenue.
According to the tax code, at the time you make a no-interest term loan, you've made an immediate gift of the present value of the interest you'll forgo over the entire term.
The gift of the remainder interest to charity triggers an immediate tax writeoff.
In the immediate future, Ehrenberg said maintaining low interest rates will help students leave school with lower debt, which will give them more freedom to consider occupations for reasons other than salaries.
While many big retailers, consumer-packaged-goods companies, and logistics companies initially expressed great interest in RFID technologies, their immediate concern was how in the world would they ever be able to manage the unprecedently massive streams of data emanating from these new networks of things.
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The impact of a rise in interest rates will be bigger than the immediate effect on borrowing costs.
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But in general, when your death is of more interest to family, friends, colleagues and your immediate community, the text of an obit is written by the loved ones themselves, who make no pretense of (and have to reason to aspire to) objectivity.
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And the cost to the supplier of immediate cash payment by the bank, in respect of the implicit interest rate or discount on the bill, ought to be tiny - because the bank is in effect lending to the safe big company, which ultimately honours the bill, not to the riskier supplier.
Amid all this scientific interest, however, the conference did not neglect the more immediate question of how the tools now available can be deployed.
The immediate consequence is that the Bank of England is likely to again raise interest rates to damp down inflation and consumer spending: not sharply, perhaps, but steadily.
Despite 80 companies reportedly showing an interest in the ailing firm, 156 staff were made redundant with immediate effect last week.
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The other major changes is the interest rate is going to a fixed interest rate of 6.8 percent, which, in the immediate right now is going to be an increase in the rates that students pay.
It is rare but possible for the Department of Homeland Security to "parole'' a foreign national into the United States in extraordinary cases, for individuals of special interest to the United States, when a walk-in is in immediate danger, or when the case is "politically sensitive, '' the cable states.
In the second scenario, a sudden jump in interest rates, short-term and medium-term bond funds take an immediate hit in their value and then take about two years or more to climb back to their starting value.
But DeGrado's interest in creating artificial molecules that mimic more complex natural ones may have a more immediate payoff: a powerful new generation of antibiotics.
But if a security trades lower because market interest rates have risen or because of problems in the market itself, requiring an immediate write-down is unduly harsh, because capital is reduced by the same amount.
Given that the overwhelming number of Americans have earned income instead of living off of dividends or interest, it is fair to say that this 2% payroll tax was an immediate boost to working families.
As the table below shows, these factors have enabled Nokia to maintain a healthy interest coverage ratio and quick ratio (nearly equal to the industry average), dispensing any immediate liquidity concerns.
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The immediate integration of Google solutions will utilize Google Maps and Google Places to acquire driving directions and locate Points of Interest (POIs) in a seamless and organic manner.
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