Visual Acuity Tests. Among the first tests performed in a comprehensive eye exam are visual acuity tests that measure the sharpness of your vision. These usually are performed using a projected eye chart to measure your distance visual acuity and a small, hand-held acuity chart to measure your near vision.
United States[edit] A preference in U.S. federal bankruptcy law is a transfer of property by a debtor to its creditor, on account of a pre-existing debt, that is made while the debtor is insolvent and gives the creditor more than it would obtain in a liquidation of the debtor's assets in a bankruptcy proceeding.
This will occur because the interest rate is too low to induce wealth holders to exchange their money for less liquid forms of wealth and because they expect interest rates to rise in the future. The concept of liquidity preference was used by Keynes to explain the prolonged depression of the 1930s.