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QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION: A business activity that is privately controlled, but authorized by government legislation. The Federal National Mortgage Association is one example. Quasi-public corporations are set up when governments expand their activities and/or divest themselves of current government functions. Quasi-public corporations often result because governments seek to promote a particular activity, such as student loans, low cost home mortgages, or lotteries, but do not want the administrative burden.
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RISK POOLING The process of combining the risks facing individuals into larger groups. This process can be used effectively to transfer individual risks to the entire group. This makes it possible to calculated the risk for the group. Risk pooling is the standard technique that enables the provision of insurance services.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time driving to a factory outlet trying to buy either clothing for your pet dog or an ink cartridge for your printer. Be on the lookout for vindictive digital clocks with revenge on their minds.
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Three-forths of the gold mined each year is used to manufacture jewelry.
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"As is our confidence, so is our capacity. " -- William Hazlitt, essayist
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AACT
American Assocation of Commodity Traders
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