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- A critical appraisal of a book, play, movie, exhibition, etc., published in a newspaper or magazine
- A formal assessment or examination of something with the possibility or intention of instituting change if necessary
- look at again; examine again; “let’s review your situation”
- reappraisal: a new appraisal or evaluation
- A periodical publication with critical articles on current events, the arts, etc
- an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
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Intuit QuickBooks Accountant 2011 is designed for professionals supporting multiple QuickBooks clients. Save time by working in different company files at the same time; streamline your workflow by managing your clients’ company files, usernames, and passwords in one place; and improve productivity by simultaneously working on the same company file as your client.
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Match unapplied vendor and customer payments/credits with invoices/charges from one window
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QuickBooks Accountant 2011 is the master QuickBooks program and includes fully functioning current-year editions of QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Industry Editions for Windows–so you can easily view client files in whichever version they use, allowing for easier collaboration because you see exactly what your client sees.
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Use reports, like “Realized and Unrealized Gains & Losses,” to analyze the effect of currency fluctuations on your clients’ businesses.
Transcript of the IMFC Press Conference – IMG 2106
THARMAN S: IMFC CHAIRMAN
CHRISTINE LAGARDE, IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR
DAVID LIPTON: IMF FIRST DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR
GERRY RICE: IMF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT
MR. RICE: – Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming and welcome to this press conference on behalf of the IMFC. I am delighted to have with us today the Chairman of the IMFC, Chairman Tharman, and also the Managing Director is here, as well as Mr. Lipton, the First Deputy Managing Director.
MR. THARMAN – Thank you very much. First, apologies for keeping you waiting.We have had a very good meeting of minds over the last two days in our various IMFC sessions. I would say that there are a few common strands to the discussions, and a common mission that everyone advocated.
First, there was a very strong desire to see us focus individually in our own countries, as well as collectively, to focus on getting growth back to normal, and in fact raising potential output growth in the global economy. And a very strong desire to see a return to some normality in jobs, to reduce the still very high levels of unemployment in the advanced economies, and to create new jobs in the emerging economies. So, growth and jobs were a very strong focus of our discussions.
We’re not fully passed the crisis, but if I compare it to the meetings a year ago, there was a much stronger focus on growth and jobs over the last two days.
There was also a strong and common recognition that achieving growth and jobs cannot rest on one policy alone. There is no single bullet that will get us to normal growth and so normality with regard to jobs. In particular, around the table, amongst all my colleagues, there was a very strong view that we had to place greater emphasis on structural reforms to create jobs, as well as to boost productivity. There also had to be a stronger emphasis on credibility in medium-term fiscal consolidation. That is the second strategy.
There still needed to be accommodative monetary policy in the advanced economies, but an over reliance on accommodative monetary policy, without addressing the need for credible, medium-term fiscal consolidation and without stepping up the pace of structural reforms, was unlikely to lead us back to normal growth and to job creation. So, the emphasis was toward a better balance of strategies–monetary, fiscal, and structural–with a stronger emphasis on medium-term fiscal and structural reforms rather than a single reliance or an overly heavy reliance on monetary policy.
That was the tenor of the discussions. I would say on a better track in the three-speed world, as Ms. Lagarde talked about. We have to use this time to build up buffers, because there is a risk, particularly with capital flows, and a risk that our economies are doing better, that you are going to get a buildup of new problems arising from credit creation as well as problems in asset markets. We have to use this time to build up buffers and start acting on the prudential side to guard against future risks. So I would summarize those as two broad themes in our discussion, for which there was a very good meeting of minds.
No disagreements in views, and we all felt strongly about those conclusions.
MS. LAGARDE – Thank you, Chairman. Let me preface brief comments by thanking publicly the Chairman of the IMFC, not only a rock star as some of you have mentioned in your papers, but he is a voice of reason and a man of vision. He has the ability to bring people together, which is exceptional in the context of the IMFC, because you have representatives from very different corners, with a different pace of development, with different levels of development, with different concerns, as he has just indicated, but some of them have really transcended the discussions that we had over the last couple of days.
Clearly, the one mentioned first and foremost was jobs and growth, whether you look at the MENA transition countries, for instance, or whether you look at some of the advanced economies in the eurozone, or whether you look at Japan, or whether you look at the United States, and some emerging market economies as well, every policy maker is keen to develop jobs and to respond to the demands of the young population in particular. So, anything that works to create jobs—obviously, starting with growth and the good policy mix, which relies on not just one policy, but a set of policies that will include fiscal consolidation at the right pace, structural reforms (which really bonded all members together this morning as we were going through the list of to-dos), and monetary policy, is clearly intended to respond to the job and growth demand that is out there.
One piece of information: we have yesterday concluded a staff-level agreement with Tunisia. So Tunisia will be another country in the Middle East where we will be helping and supporting that country’s economic recovery and stability. So that is, from my perspective, certainly a piece of
RAJA LITTLE GIRL LOST …
"Raja," the story of a dissolute Frenchman who uses his money to exploit desperately poor Moroccan girls, is upsetting because it pretends to be about love.
By JOSHUA TANZER
Offoffoff.com
Billed as a romance and study of adolescence, described in the French press as a story of "desire between two worlds," "Raja" is something totally different. Perhaps filmmaker Jacques Doillon himself was unaware of what kind of film he was making, but "Raja" is actually a study of power and naked exploitation. It’s a rather upsetting movie, in fact, because every scene pretends to be about love but is really about violence — unexpressed but understood.
RAJA
Written and directed by: Jacques Doillon.
Cast: Pascal Greggory, Najat Benssallem, Ilham Abdelwahad, Ilham Abdelwahed, Hassan Khissal, Zineb Ouchita, Ahmed Akensouss, Oum El Aid Ait Youss, Fatiha Khoulaki, Acha Aarif, Hajiba Firma, Jmiaa Aarif, Hanane Ben Jaddi, Samra Ben Arafa, Samira El Othmani, Abdellah Lamrani, Rachida Boukhima, Zineb Khoulaki, Fatima Zorha.
Cinematography: Hlne Louvart.
In French and Arabic with English subtitles.
We start with scenes of teenage girls in Morocco — girls who seem innocent and carefree at first, but are actually rather worldwise and practical-minded. Finding work in the garden of a local Frenchman’s villa for a few dirhams’ pay, they giggle about the proprietor’s lecherous attentions toward the new girl, Raja (Najat Benssallem). Within two days, the well-to-do middle-aged Frdric (Pascal Greggory) has given the 19-year-old a job on his grounds, which consists of pretending to work while he follows her around trying to kiss and fondle her.
Unspoken but always present, the power of money dictates everything that happens in this roller-coaster relationship. Raja dreams of the life of ease she’ll lead if she can get the French playboy to marry her. Fred dangles dirhams (the equivalent of $10 or $20, usually) her way as an enticement. She responds readily because she has no alternative. She has been following the money all her life. This is a dance in which the almighty French franc is calling the tune.
I think writer-director Doillon finds Fred’s decadence dashing. Europeans (as well as some Americans) are quite aware of their opportunities to live like kings in the former colonies, using their western currencies to buy luxurious homes, hire servants and even keep women for their pleasure, all at bargain prices. This legacy of colonialism, subjugation and economic exploitation underlies every transaction between Fred and Raja. Every advance these two make toward each other is a product of coercion, whether physical or financial. That’s palpable in the film, and yet the "love story" is treated as genuine, the two characters as tragic romantic heroes. The filmmaker himself may well have internalized the values of colonization to the point of not even understanding when they are at work.
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