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Saimaa
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Saimaa (sī`mä), lake system c.1,850 sq mi (4,790 sq km), occupying the heavily glaciated plateau of S central Finland. It comprises more than 120 connecting lakes; the large southern basin of the system constitutes Lake Saimaa proper (c.500 sq mi/1,290 sq km). The system drains SE into Lake Ladoga (Russia) through the Vuoskijoki (c.100 mi/160 km long). There are numerous canals to facilitate steamship and lumber-raft traffic through the

Saimaa Canal (c.37 mi/60 km long; completed 1856), which terminates at Vyborg, Russia, on the Gulf of Finland. The cities of Joensuu, Kuopio, Lappeenranta, and Mikkeli are on the lakes.



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The CreditWatch placement will be resolved after evaluating the likely effects of the consolidation on Nichimen's asset quality and equity base, the degree to which its credit profile will converge with that of Nissho Iwai,'' said Takahiro Saimen, a credit analyst at S&P in Tokyo.
Although Furukawa maintains a solid customer base in the electric wire, nonferrous metals and electronics components businesses, its earnings and cash flow generation have been insufficient to offset the poor performance of its optical fiber business,'' said Takahiro Saimen, a credit analyst at S&P in Tokyo.
If banks, under pressure to improve their own credit quality, start reducing credit to lower-tier trading firms, this will place pressure on the companies' liquidity,'' said Takahiro Saimen, an analyst at the U.
 
 
 
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