Creative activity that reflects reality in artistic images embodying human’s aesthetic attitude to it (painting, sculpture, fiction, theatre, cinematographic art, music, choreography, and the like). A form of social consciousness.
A system of scientifically substantiated views rejecting belief in the supernatural and denying the existence of God and religion in general.
The difference between payments into and out of a country over a certain period. An active BP means that incoming payments exceed outgoing, while a passive BP signifies the opposite.
Promissory notes put out by banks of issue and replacing coins in circulation.
Credit and financial institutions which accumulate temporarily free funds and savings and lend them, carry out money transactions, discount bills, issue money and securities, conduct gold and foreign currency operations, and so on. There are banks of issue, commercial (deposit), investment, or savings banks.
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