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...iplication of wherewithal falsified all apocalyptic Malthusian scenarios hitherto. Operations research, mathematical modeling, transparent decision... ...se of time lags in the dissemination of data and its assimilation in the prevailing operational model of the economy - prices tend to overshoot both... ...ars ago, cable television was dominated by a patchwork of thousands of tiny, family-operated companies. Today, a pending deal would leave three com... ...y or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the British ECGD, and the French COFACE - shift political risk from ... ...w ... Conservatism among the buying public, twinned with a generation of marketing directors who won't take a chance on something that breaks new g... ...istic countries. Why are inventors in America more productive than their French or British counterparts - at least judging by the number of patents... ... frequently marginal. Shareholders meet once a year to vent and disperse. Boards of directors are appointed by management - as are auditors. Shareho... ...ranchised and undervalued them. Hitler, who fancied himself an artist, labeled the British a "nation of shopkeepers" in one of his bouts of raging ... ...executive malfeasance is most effectively regulated by this "outrage constraint": "Directors (and non-executive directors) would be reluctant to ap...

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...needed. But it is in a state of flux. Old maxims break down. New modes of operation emerge. Functions are amalgamated, outsourced, dispensed with... ... medium. Will it be able to support its content creation and distribution operations economically? If the Internet is a budding medium - then we sh... ... sector takes over the medium from "below" (makes offers to the owners or operators of the medium that they cannot possibly refuse) - or from "above... ...journals are as respectable as any print journal. BMJ (formerly called the British Medical Journal) is eminently respectable. It offers 100% of its ... ...s is a "code of honour" (more reminiscent of the Sicilian Mob than of the British Parliament, let’s say). Violations are punished by excommunication... ...E to the Russian MTS - are becoming regional. Multinationals, such as the British Vodafone and the French Orange - have entered the regional fray. S... ...tests in a few countries. Think about the polling of members of boards of directors by phone or fax (explicitly required by law in many countries). ... ...the Worker, to build his own world (that he had a dreamt of). But the old directors were stupid, they did not see the new world, they were blind and...

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...is based upon the assumption that not only Energy: but Time and Space as well operate by the same Dynamic of Balanced Splitting or Splitness. This ... ...task requiring all focus of attention and awareness be concentrated upon this operation. Using a flint chip requires an equal degree of concentratio... ...e of Inner and Outer awareness. So... our Inner Universe-Awareness or self; operates reflectively independent of the Outer Universe: creating abst... ...a huge financial bubble bursts… when investors lose billions and the board of directors manage to skip off with barely a reprimand? Why is whistle-b... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th... ...f Hollywood will disappear, and there will be billions of movie- producers and directors and actors and actresses: all a thousand times more creative ...

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... what about health care. Socialized medicine sounded like a good idea. The British National Health Service has over a million people waiting for ho... ...le its stated objective is to have no one waiting more than 6 months for an operation nor more than 3 months for an outpatient surgery appointment, ... ..., few rooms have televisions to help patients while away the painful hours. Operations, if not emergencies, are often scheduled rather far in the fu... ...laced accountants and many researchers. They calculated complicated medical operations while robots performed them. Were it not for the aging popula... ...can be a better place.” — “Thank you commander. I recently saw a British television program that looked at the ecological footprint that ... ...000 liters of gasoline to power them. So that one little bouncing bundle of British joy is a disaster for the planet. “The more facts that a... ... regime. Along this line he fired a number of experienced diplomats and bank directors. He wanted all the power of a Medieval religious king. While h...

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... is not possible to create this type of superior and immortal life without operating on the earthly level where humans, not the gods, live. f. No... ...people during their lives after they have left the womb, Homer sees them as operating on an intrauterine level, within the sea of amniotic fluid. He ... ...endental Self. Every human being has one and benefits from its wisdom that operates within us and for us, even when we are unaware of it (see A.M. Th... ...shows us in Ulysses’ journey through his transformation. In many movies directors (who are the modern storytellers of our society) show us how fi... ...s and minds? Gandhi thought up a great way to combat the arrogance of the British Empire but he did so with method and discipline and above all wit... ...stic interpretations of films written by myself and by them. I thank the Directors, the teams and students within the Centers and Institutes that ... ...t Laboratory was facilitated by Giancarlo Ceccarelli and Graziella Lopez , Directors of the Centro Eunomos, and their students, in May, 2004. I thank...

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...tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, and fortified wi... ...s" in its character, and in seeking to preserve that character asks the co-operation of alumnus and student in presenting the news and sentiment of th... .... Meeker, Newman ox-'OH. 'I"h(! following have been ap- poiiitc'd baseball directors: I'.t07, Hirdsall, J'evear, KusHell; I'.IOH, Atwater, Fenno, Lyml... ...ation created in the league by the late arrangement is realized. Under the operation of this com- promise the league is divided into parts,—the first ... ...e freshman football surplus. The following have been ap- pointinl baseball directors: 1907, Birdsoll, Pevear, Russell; 190S, Atwator, Fenno, Lynde; li... ...f. Lewis pre- sided. Additions to the Baseball Leag^ue At a meeting of the directors of the independent Ijaseball league, held in Jesup Hall, Tuesday ... ...of North Amerion opennd on November 22 with addresses by Hon, James Bryoe, British ambassador to the United States, Governor Glenn of North Carolina a...

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..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ...oding the hills around! It is like a mockery. * Mr. Gabrilowitsch had been operated on for appendicitis. What Is Man and Other Essays 78 Seventy four... ...conclude, by the middle of May, that you would like to attend the Bayreuth opera two months and a half later, you must use the cable and get about it ... ...n of a rainy Saturday. We were of the wise, and had secured lodg ings and opera seats months in advance. I am not a musical critic, and did not come ... ...r harvest, nor fewer than are required in a prodigal one, or the board of directors will dethrone her and elect a queen that has more sense. There ar...

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...g in it), looking at the fashions, or reading 4 Men’s Wives Cumberland’s “British Theatre.” The Sunday Times was her paper, for she voted the Dispatc... ...” as the robbers’ door did to her colleague, Ali Baba (Hornbuckle), in the operatic piece in which she was so famous. Beer was Mr. Crump’s beverage, d... ...o be paid down on the day of her wedding. Those who know the habits of the British tradesman are aware that he has gregarious propensities like any lo... ... as far as accepting eau- de-Cologne and hair-combs from the perfumer—some opera tickets, a treat to Greenwich, and a piece of real Genoa velvet for a... ...bers. The West 8 Men’s Wives Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British and For- eign Soap Company, the celebrated attorneys Kite and Levis... ...and a velvet waistcoat. He was a member of a club; had an admission to the opera, and knew every face behind the scenes; and was in the habit of using... ...nies invented, but to place thou- sands in the pockets of shareholders and directors? Into these commercial pursuits the gallant Captain now plunged w... ...rise in the City as a capitalist, and might be seen in the printed list of directors of many excellent and philanthropic schemes, of which there is ne...

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...ist- ence for making things clear, counteracting hostile sugges- tion, the British official organisations are comparatively in- effective; but what is... ...btle critic, calling in upon me after brav- ing the wintry seas to see the British fleet; M. Joseph Reinach follows them presently upon the same erran... ...nyone who from the perspective of Italy may seem to be a representative of British opinion. If Herbert Spencer had been alive General Radcliffe would ... ...etimes the picture will present a scriptural subject, sometimes a scene of opera, sometimes a dream landscape or a trophy of fruits or flowers, and th... ...ains favour either the offensive or the defensive. But they certainly make operations far more deliberate than upon a level. An engineered road or rai... ...kes hairpin bends upon tracks of loose metal not an inch too broad for the opera- tion, or it floats for a moment over the dizzy edge while a train of... ...nk of the German type: to begin with, it was certainly dominated by German directors; it was a bank of stimula- tion, and its activities interweave no... ...nts and gambling gentlefolk may think in terms of profit; capable business directors certainly do nothing of the sort. I met a British officer in Fran...

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...less. Both eyes had cataracts; but she obstinately refused to submit to an operation, in spite of the entreaties of her sister-in-law. The secret reas... ...ng five, game after game, was to this confirmed hoarder a mighty financial operation, into which she put as much mental action as the most eager specu... ...ris, she studied harmony and thorough- bass, and composed the music of two operas which have had great success, though the public has never been admit... ...stinction due to her rank as the wife of a du Guenic and the daughter of a British peer. Mademoiselle des T ouches urged Calyste to see Paris, while s... ... a woman’s note-paper; it had a perfume of feminine elegance.” “Those club directors are such dandies!” The Vicomte de Portenduere and his wife, forme...

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...gle) the greatness of the power of Russia, which was still in those days a British bogey; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle bet... ...uld find in the divines and dignitaries of the Vatican, of the Russian and British official churches, or of any other of the multitudinous Christian s... ...em to point to this third change are very convincing, to my mind. The real operating cause that is, I believe, going to break down the deadlock that h... ...ge, dream- ing of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think ... ...y and imaginatively , to hold together and maintain any institution for co-operation. The British Press may be too silly not to foster irritation and ... ...nds itself to me as probable. After a more detailed examination of the big operating forces at present working in the world, we may be in a position t... ...s, politicians, mono-lingual diplomatists, bishops, schoolmasters, company directors, and 80 What Is Coming? remittance men, are even now dead. Quite...

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... when Mr. James, to crown all, said he had no doubt that his friends, the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, would make Mr. Titmarsh ... ...tirement at Putney; but mainly, to give him an opportunity of thanking the Directors of the Company in question for a delightful excursion. It was one... ...we found ourselves again in the great stalwart roast-beef world; the stout British steamer bearing out of the bay, whose purple waters had grown more ... ...ith placards of a bull-fight, to take place the next evening (there was no opera that sea- son); but it was not a real Spanish tauromachy—only a theat... ...Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress. The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in t... ...- ging up the hideous perpendicular place, you were to find regi- ments of British grenadiers ready to plunge bayonets into your poor panting stomach,... ...horses; squads of priests, habited after the fashion of Don Basilio in the opera, are demurely pacing to and fro; professional beggars run shrieking a... ...gh there is every gaiety and amusement in the town, a comfort- able little opera, a good old library filled full of good old books (none of your works...

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...is friends, and their tumultuous mirth. Gay was project- ing his “Beggars’ Opera,” and Pope preparing some of his witty “Miscellanies.” At the end of ... ...Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 31 90 ‘Our humbler province is to tend the fair,... ...’d, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interpre... ... While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach-and-six the British fair, As long as Atalantis 32 shall be read, Or the small pillow g... ...brooks, Old-fashion’d halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks: She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning-walks, and prayers three hours a-da... ... 172 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, a... ... I only wear it in a land of hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but our army! and let Jove incrust Swords, pikes, and guns,... ... days can ne’er be long, In flower of age you perish for a song! Plums and directors, Shylock and his wife, Will club their testers, now, to take your... ...wyer, but undoes the scribe. Then better, sure, it charity becomes T o tax directors, who (thank God) have plums; 205 ‘Wild:’ Jonathan, a famous thie...

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...plied Madame Mollot. “Why, this morning I was so puzzled that I got out my opera-glass—” “Bravo!” cried the superintendent of ponts et chaussees, who ... ...r a commercial traveller.” X 62 The Deputy of Arcis THE REVELATIONS OF AN OPERA-GLASS ANTONIN GOULARD left the little group of young ladies, in which... ...ave sometimes seen in exhibitions of industrial products.’ So I fetched my opera- glass to examine it. But, good gracious! what do you think I saw? Ab... ...ar producing unpleasant complications, inas- 245 Balzac much as the young British scion of nobility had assumed a boxing attitude. That fray pacified... ...urmuring. Left alone, the signora rapidly resumed her usual dress, and the directors’ carriage took her back to the hotel where she had stayed since a...

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...e farmer nodded encouragingly. He thought it not im- probable that a short operation with these numbers would give the sum in Anthony’s possession, th... ...lours, Spaniards in black and white, Peruvians—orange, Mexicans—red as the British army. Well, it’s just my whim. If I like red, I go at red. I ain’t ... ...s. Wicklow, Anthony’s landlady, undertook to make Rhoda comfortable, which operation she began by praising dark young ladies over fair ones, at the sa... ...ier by naming the dress she was to wear, the jewels, and the colour of the opera cloak. Thus prompted, Dahlia went to her chamber, and passively attir... ...i- sons; while Algernon vehemently defended her with a bat- tering fire of British adjectives in superlative. He as much as hinted, under instigation,... ...ands of the Eccleses, by running off one day and entering the ranks of the British army. Those framed letters became melancholy objects for con- templ... ...fallen, from no worse an incitement than curiosity. Cold curiosity, as the directors of our human constitution tell us, is, in the colder condition of...

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... keen- ness of a Chicago evening at the end of February. The Italian Grand Opera Company gave one of the most popular pieces of its repertoire on that... ...wo or three, holding herself erect and with fine dignity. Even beneath the opera cloak it was easy to infer that her neck and shoulders were beautiful... ...te, pale blue, Nile green, and pink, while over these costumes were thrown opera cloaks and capes of astonishing complexity and elaborateness. Nearly ... ...consulted him, pro- moters sought his friendship, his name on the board of directors of a company was an all-sufficing endorsement; in a word, a “stro... ...colouring and fusing of glass was cited as an authority. He was one of the directors of the new Art Gallery that had taken the place of the old Exposi... ...fair? You remem- ber that row between England and Turkey. They tell me the British agent in Constantinople put it pretty straight to the Sultan the ot... ...e between England and Turkey over the Higgins-Pasha incident, and that the British Foreign Office has threatened the Sultan with an ultimatum. I can s... ...e. And I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if we get cables before noon that the British War Office had sent an ulti- matum.” And very naturally a few minut... ...oard of T rade himself, and with him the vice-president and a group of the directors. Evidently it had been these who had called the traders to order....

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...og, as somehow or other there does happen to be, in almost every town in the British dominions, and perhaps in foreign dominions too we think it v... ...ase of animal magnetism. A private watch man, being merely looked at by the operator from the oppo site side of a wide street, was at once observed ... ...fter the manner of a pantomime trick, the strings being always pulled by the directors of the com pany to which the machine belonged. The quicksilver... ...ne belonged. The quicksilver was so ingeniously placed, that when the acting directors held shares in their pockets, figures denoting very small expen... ... expenses and very large returns appeared upon the glass; but the moment the directors parted with these pieces of paper, the estimate of needful expe... ...empt to follow its minutest Mudfog and Other Sketches Charles Dickens 43 operation.’ ‘TWENTY MINUTES BEFORE TWO. ‘I have at length been enabled to... ...s in four and twenty. The inventor remarked that it had been put into active operation in Fleet Street, the Strand, and other thoroughfares, and had n... ...ns of the intense indignation of every man present. The baker wondered how a British baker could so disgrace him self and the highly honourable calli...

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...the glass. By the time I had swal- lowed it, the old lady had finished her operations at the bu- reau, and was coming towards me, the wax-candle bobbi... ...ompany in London would give her more than twenty-four. The chairman of the directors was the great Mr. Brough, of the house of Brough and Hoff, Crutch... ...its due effect upon the gents at the office, Abednego, who had been in the directors’ room, came to my desk with a great smirk, and said, “Tit, Mr. B.... ...subscribed and bona fide capital is five millions ster- ling. “The body of directors you know. Suffice it to say that the managing director is John Br... ...ure.” “You should learn, Miss Brough,” said her father. “The daughter of a British merchant need not be ashamed of the means by which her father gets ... ...g fellow from a fire-office can. There was our celebrated adventure in the Opera House, whither Mrs. H. would insist upon conducting us; and where, in...

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...nd lost. My darling son would have been sixteen on Christmas-day next. He was a most amiable and obedient child, early taught the way of salvation. We... ... innocent nose. Those inscru- table pigeon-hole offices, with nothing in them (not so much as an inkstand) but a model of a theatre before the curtain... ...t within half an hour I was in an immense theatre, capable of holding nearly five thousand people. Charles Dickens 30 What Theatre? Her Majesty’s? Fa... ...he stage itself, and all its appurtenances of machinery, cellarage, height and breadth, are on a scale more like the Scala at Milan, or the San Carlo ... ...for Jack. At any rate, Jack did not show in very great force even here, though the house was one to which he much resorts, and where a good deal of mo... ...toes, and some other sensible things, adoption of which at home would inevitably be shown to be fraught with ruin, some- how or other, to that rickety... ... world, with the tower of yonder Christian church of Saint Sepulchre monstrously before their eyes! Is there any haunting of the Bank Parlour, by the ... ...e are all agreed on that. But, we must not quite forget the crowds of gentlefolks who set the shamefully dangerous fashion, either. We must not quite ... ...nd lady, a young husband and wife, have bought and fitted up this building for its present noble use, and have quietly settled themselves in it as its...

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...ter Is- land there was a public Ball, to celebrate the return to Erin of a British hero of Irish blood, after his victorious Indian campaign; a mighty... ...a stretch …. ‘Yes, the pleasantest thing to me after working all day is an opera of Carini’s,’ she said, in full accord with her taste, ‘and T ellio f... ... the knot: Men, men calling themselves statesmen, declined to perform that operation, because, forsooth, other men objected to have it performed on th... ... giant ex-dragoon. Ah! how fine! grand! He would rather hear that than any opera: it was diviner! ‘Yes, the best poetry is,’ she assented. ‘On your li... .... I am a careful watcher of the market. I have friends—brokers and railway Directors. I can rely on them.’ ‘Pray,’ interposed Lady Dunstane, ‘specify—... ... not take it as the compensation for their departure.’ The Bull’s Head, or British Jury of T welve, with the wig on it, was faced during the latter ha... ... of the yacht. A stout champion in the person of T om Redworth was left on British land; but for some reason past analysis, intermixed, that is, among... ...of the requirements of poor English travellers entertained by the Seigneur Directors of the class above them, was that they differed from cattle in st... ...at mine was named, and the rush for allot- ments. She knew a couple of the Directors. They vowed to her that ten per cent. was a trifle; the fortune t...