OK. So there is the pressure sensitive display in operation.

I can see Earth in the view port of the .

Future versions of the Mk 10 will be fitted with a new VC2 thermal imager.

Then they're comfortable, they have good vision, like this great big visor.

In 1972, the first active matrix liquid crystal display panel was produced in the United States by T Peter Brody's team at Westinghouse, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Purchase date the date on which the sale of purchased assets by the seller to the buyer becomes effective .

Announcement of longer term refinancing operation Allotment of longer term refinancing operations Settlement of longer term refinancing operations

Interest rate instruments are revalued on an item by item basis .

ECB Annual Report 2006 Interest rate instruments are revalued on an item by item basis .

Interest rate instruments are revalued on an itemby item basis .

Interest rate instruments are revalued on an item by item basis .

In addition , the EU Council may meet in the composition of the Heads of State or Government .

Outright transaction a transaction where the central bank buys or sells assets outright in the market ( spot or forward ) .

Quick tender the tender procedure used by the Eurosystem for fine tuning operations when it is deemed desirable to have a rapid impact on the liquidity situation in the market .

Main refinancing operation a regular open market operation executed by the Eurosystem in the form of a reverse transaction .

Main refinancing operations are conducted through weekly standard tenders and have a maturity of two weeks . Maintenance period the period over which credit institutions compliance with reserve requirements is calculated .

Pooling system a system for central banks collateral management where the counterparties provide a pool of assets to serve as collateral in their transactions with the central bank .

As for the instruments used , reverse transactions are the main open market instrument of the Eurosystem and can be employed in all four categories of operations .

Euro area the area encompassing those Member States in which the euro has been adopted as the single currency in accordance with the Treaty and in which a single monetary policy is conducted under the responsibility of the relevant decision making bodies of the ECB . The euro area comprises Belgium , Germany , Spain , France , Ireland , Italy , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Austria , Portugal and Finland .

Non financial corporations one of the institutional sectors in the European System of Accounts 1995 ( ESA 95 ) .

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Monetary policy instrument

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This decision device may be an operator with headphones or a display, or in more sophisticated sonars this function may be carried out by software.

Longer term refinancing operation a regular open market operation executed by the Eurosystem in the form of a reverse transaction .

By contrast with an earmarking system , the underlying assets are not earmarked for individual transactions in a pooling system . Post fixed coupon a coupon on floating rate instruments which is determined on the basis of the values taken by the reference index at a certain date ( certain dates ) during the coupon accrual period .

Auto detection devices shall indicate , by means of a visible or audible signal , or a text display , whether the checked banknote is found to be genuine or not .

In some Member States , branches of the national central bank may be closed on NCB business days owing to local or regional bank holidays .

Post fixed coupon a coupon on floating rate instruments which is determined on the basis of the values taken by the reference index at a certain date ( or dates ) during the coupon accrual period .

Pooling system see collateral pooling system .

Minimum bid rate the lower limit to the interest rates at which counterparties may submit bids in variable rate tenders .

Post fixed coupon a coupon on floating rate instruments which is determined on the basis of the values taken by the reference index on a certain date ( or dates ) during the coupon accrual period .

National central bank ( NCB ) as used in this document , a central bank of an EU Member State which has adopted the single currency in accordance with the Treaty .

Outright transaction a transaction whereby assets are bought or sold up to their maturity ( spot or forward ) .

Outright transaction a transaction whereby assets are bought or sold up to their maturity ( spot or forward ) .

ECBc The implementation of monetary policy in the euro area February 2005 ANNEX 2 Outright transaction a transaction whereby assets are bought or sold up to their maturity ( spot or forward ) .

Pooling system a system for central banks collateral management where the counterparties provide a pool of assets to serve as collateral in their transactions with the central bank .

Lump sum allowance a fixed amount which an institution may deduct in the calculation of its reserve requirement within the minimum reserve framework of the Eurosystem .

M1 , M2 , M3 see monetary aggregates .

Nikkei 225 index an index of the 225 top rated Japanese companies listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange . It is a market value weighted index ( i.e. each stock

Consider the following functions, which demonstrate several kinds of dependencies Operation 3 in Dep(a, b) cannot be executed before (or even in parallel with) operation 2, because operation 3 uses a result from operation 2.

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They can take the form of liquidityproviding ( outright purchase ) or liquidityabsorbing ( outright sales ) operations

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Open market operation an operation executed on the initiative of the central bank in the financial market . With regard to their aims , regularity and procedures , Eurosystem open market operations can be divided into four categories main refinancing operations , longer term refinancing operations , fine tuning operations and structural operations .