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Although well established in the aviation community, low-cost and vehicle independent "black-box" technology for accident analysis, adapted to mass-market ground-based vehicles, is an emerging technology with growing importance. Whilst several produits sui ...
While mortgage rates reached historic lows during 2012, the spread between primary and secondary rates rose to very high levels. This trend reflected a number of factors that potentially affected mortgage originator costs and profits and restrained the pas ...
