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Mercantile |
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Relating to trade or commerce; commercial; having to do with the business of buying and selling; relating to merchants. A mercantile agency is an individual or company in the business of collecting data about the financial status, ability, and credit of individuals who are engaged in business. Once this information is compiled, it is sold by the agency to its customers, who are known as subscribers. Mercantile agencies are known as credit bureaus in current usage. |
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company seeking to protect its shareholders and employees is to lobby local, state and particularly federal representatives to take a much harder line against Chinese mercantilism. In potentially overreacting to a perceived threat from China, the United States may undertake policies that will send precisely the wrong message to China's modernizing managerial class and encourage highly damaging (to the United States, as well as the rest of the world) tendencies in China, including nationalism, mercantilism and distrust of the international markets. All four films deal with men of the West who have difficulty dealing with changing times - encroaching civilization, technology, mercantilism. |
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