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Celt and Saxon

By: George Meredith

...edge; and if you link yourself to her and do as those two are doing, it is chiefly in a spirit of imitation, in sympathy with the darting couple ahead... ...on of identical circumstances. 25 George Meredith CHAPTER V AT THE PIANO, CHIEFLY WITHOUT MUSIC BARELY HAD THE DOOR SHUT behind them when Patrick let... ...as the last and heaviest of the long and open feud between them, but also, chiefly, that it outraged and did per- manent injury to his ideas of the pr... ... fighting to teach the settlers to value good leadership and respect their chiefs, they tumble into Republics.’ Patrick would have liked to fling a wo... ...a vitality rarely notified to the outer world by the opening of her mouth; chiefly then, though not malevo- lently to command: as the portal of some s... ...l over. There he stands, a lover of the sea, and a scientific sea- man and engineer to boot, practical in every line of his face, defying mankind to s...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...ate things. When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it... ...s of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to “glorify God and enjoy him forever.” Still we li... ...lank, laid a foot from the ground, and a thin mat upon them. Two more of his chief men, for want of room, pressed by and upon us; so that we were wors... ... pond is not very fertile in fish. Its pickerel, though not abundant, are its chief boasts. I have seen at one time lying on the ice pick erel of at l... ...high in my thought. The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a season... ...who have a season ticket and see it often, are better men for the sight. The engineer does not forget at night, or his nature does not, that he has be... ...oven that bakes your bread, and the necessary furniture and utensils are the chief ornaments; where the washing is not put out, nor the fire, nor the m...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

...anufacturers were ruined in Nottingham. Her father, George Coppard, was an engineer—a large, handsome, haughty man, proud of his fair skin and blue ey... ...e Coppard was bitterly galled by his own poverty. He became foreman of the engineers in the dockyard at Sheerness. Mrs. Morel—Gertrude—was the second ... ...whilst his health was affected, it was never injured. The week-end was his chief carouse. He sat in the Miners’ Arms until turning-out time every Frid... ...lways two dinners to cook, because she believed children should have their chief meal at midday, whereas Morel needed his at five o’clock. So Mr. Heat... ...s a woman who waited for her children to grow up. And William occupied her chiefly. But when William went to Nottingham, and was not so much at home, ... ... but not individually. All the earnings of each stall were put down to the chief butty, as contrac- tor, and he divided the wages again, either in the... ...ll and fat, and very bald. He made remarks that were not witty, whilst his chief launched forth patriarchal admonitions against the colliers. The room...

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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

...nt place for half-a-crown, whence I should command a full view of the Lord Chief Justice in his wig and robes – mentioning that awful personage like w... ... horrible, and gave me a sickening idea of London: the more so as the Lord Chief Justice’ s proprietor wore (from his hat down to his boots and up aga... ...the neighbours couldn’ t mind their own business. By degrees I learnt, and chiefly from Herbert, that Mr. Pocket had been educated at Harrow and at Ca... ...w- erful extent that it made the back of your hand quite wet. “I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, an... ...w under his chin, was seated apart at the upper end of the room; where, as chief mourner, he had evidently been sta- tioned by T rabb. When I bent dow... ... Trabb at this point, in a depressed business-like voice. “Pocket-handker- chiefs out! We are ready!” So, we all put our pocket-handkerchiefs to our f...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ndeed, quite a feature of the place. – Your affectionate son, R. L. S. The Engineer is the Conductor of Roads and Bridges; then I have the Receiver of... ...ne. I go to Le Puy to-morrow to dispatch baggage, get cash, stand lunch to engineer, who has been very jolly and useful to me, and hope by five o’cloc... ...oper equanimity is not merely the first part of submission to God, but the chief of pos- sible kindnesses to those about us. I am lecturing myself, bu... ...e – even that dry-as-dust epitome begins with a heroic note. What is man’s chief end? Let him study that; and ask himself if to refuse to enjoy God’s ... ...rite, one to create; and I am not yet able to tackle them. For me it is my chief o’ works; hence probably not so for others, since it only means that ... ...with the best and shortest and completest sermon ever written – upon Man’s chief end. – Believe me, my dear Mr. Dick, very sincerely yours, ROBERT LOU... ... victory. Concern yourself about no failure; they do not cost lives, as in engineering; they are the Pierres Perdues of successes. Fame is (truly) a v... ...none in mine; at least, the order is better. The sec- ond title, ‘Some new Engineering Questions involved in the M. S. C. Scheme of last Session of P....

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...ons, marriage experiences, adventures in the virtual world created by mind engineers. Convention-breaking art, cinema, the whole of Western consciousn... ...Brain') - global hierarchy Planetary developmental ideology - supernatural engineering, re-created flora and fauna, cyborgs, nano-machinery, chemical ... ... Ban Srii Muod Klao 1984. Mr Phat, 66. I have been village chief for 13 years. I am a farmer. I have 12 children in all, but two ... ...out the harvest and work out there in the hot sun. I have been village chief for 13 years. I had nine villages under my direction altogether, but ... ...villages under my direction altogether, but it was easy then. The village chief's assistants got the people to work. Everybody was willing to co-oper... ...ing to co-operate and hard-working, but today it's not easy to be village chief. People have been to school and consider themselves learned and don't... ...have Saturdays or Sundays off, as children are disobedient. The village chief used to have a lot of work, he had to be policeman and judge, sort ou... ... shown in Finland, and during commercial breaks, increasingly skilful mind engineers create illusions of the components of good modern living.(30 The ...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

... not have had such an impact on work patterns. Manufacturing techniques - chiefly miniaturization - had a profound effect on the relocation of work ... ...encies. This is 6 times the figure in 1983. Public prejudices aside, even engineers and system analysts work as "temps". Many people prefer Mac-jobs,... ...rom afar. Distributed manufacturing, virtual teams (e.g., of designers or engineers or lawyers or medical doctors), multinationals - are all part of... ...l's standing reflects the historical reverence accorded in Germany to the engineering and scientific professions. IG Metall justified the outlandish... ... is Procrustean. "The Economist" reports the case of Viessmann, a German engineering firm. To avoid shifting the production of a new boiler to the ... ...ong to say that only the consumer benefits. If a firm improves itself, re-engineers its production processes, introduces new management techniques, ... ...roup of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzer... ...d in the economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television. Chief Lecturer in Macedonia in courses organized by the Agency of Privatiz...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...ore intangible, altruistic and ideational. It is more than half a century since Chief Justice Holmes alluded to a marketplace for a free trade in... ...ality is relaxed. The marketing approach implies specification of a product to be engineered in a manner so as to resolve some problem facing targe... ...ble image of an individual or an organization. Thus, while marketing's product is engineered to satisfy needs of potential consumers, publicity as a... ...tional campaigns may be differentiated for each segment. How Many Segments? The chief objective of segmentation is not merely to increase product ... ...government and finally the consumer. Just as no ship can sail smoothly without a chief officer, the channel too, usually operates under a channel ... ...mployment figures and thus provided attractive statistics. Moreover, many saw the chief purpose of government-funded programs as simply to fill ent... ...n-to match the offering with consumer demand. One wants to know in advance how to engineer the offering so that it will best suit the audience for w...

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Executive Summary of the Disclosure Project Briefing Document

By: Steven M. Greer

...Sgt. Karl Wolf: US Air Force Ms. Donna Hare: NASA Employee Mr. John Maynard: DIA Official Dr. Robert Wood: McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Engineer Glen Dennis: NM UFO Crash Witness Sgt. Leonard Pretko: US Air Force Dr. Roberto Pinotti: Italian UFO expert Dr. Paul Czysz: McDonnell Douglas Career Engineer Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Joh...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ed up in a mashup attacking President Bush, or the discussion of genetically engineered bacteria that take photographs and are themselves the subject ... ...ces and intellectual property would become primary fields of endeavor and the chief engines of the economy. Now they are, and it is no more rational to... ...elprin’s utopia, presumably, a royalty stream would run to Cyrus the Great’s engineers.) Jefferson’s point was that for the process of invention to wo... ...ompilation” of computer programs so that Microsoft’s competitors can reverse engineer Word’s features in order to make sure their program can convert ... ...f fair use we care most about—the rights to parody, to criticize, to reverse engineer.) Or perhaps fair use allows the rights of a transformative auth... ... When computer programs were first clearly covered by copyright law, software engineers wondered if this would cripple the industry. Why? Anyone who wi... ...ion about extending monopolies is seldom to be found in the reasoning of our chief patent court. The difference is striking. Jefferson said that the j... ...neither Jeffersonian ideals nor the constitutional text seem relevant to our chief patent court when interpreting statutory sub- ject matter. Anything... ...s case, 105; and Sony Axiom, 71; and Sony case, 73–74; frequently ignored by chief U.S. patent court, 169–171, see also Court of Appeals for the Feder...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...d great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company. The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock. They could scarcel... ... or developed. The industrial and commercial papers treated the ques- tion chiefly from this point of view. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the L... ...in scouring the seas in which the animal had been sighted. He sent for the engineer. “Is the steam full on?” asked he. “Yes, sir,” replied the enginee... ...ere was no third course. The officers on board shared the opinion of their chief. They were ever chatting, discussing, and calculating the various cha... ...he har- pooner—commander, officers, masters, sailors, cabin boys; even the engineers left their engines, and the stokers their furnaces. The order to ... ...e vertebrate branch, class mammalia. The crew waited impatiently for their chief’s orders. The latter, after having observed the animal attentively, c... ...ders. The latter, after having observed the animal attentively, called the engineer. The engineer ran to him. “Sir,” said the commander, “you have ste... ...allowed free movement of the limbs. The taller of the two, evi- dently the chief on board, examined us with great atten- tion, without saying a word; ... ...unted and tracked by fishermen, has now become very rare, and taken refuge chiefly in the northern parts of the Pacific, or probably its race would so...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...n exalted enthu- siasm about the ends of life, an enthusiasm which was lit chiefly by its own fire, and included neither the niceties of the trous- se... ...d foxes, and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable chiefly for the excitements of the chase. Neither was he so well acquainted... ...be forgiven her, considering the small tinkling and smearing in which they chiefly consisted at that dark period. She smiled and looked up at her betr... ...he flower-beds showed no very careful tendance, and large clumps of trees, chiefly of sombre yews, had risen high, not ten yards from the windows. The... ...s than that they were “not bad.” They were soon on a gravel walk which led chiefly between grassy borders and clumps of trees, this being the nearest ... ... a cap-border. “And Caleb thinks that Alfred will turn out a distinguished engineer: he wants to give the boy a good chance. There he is! I hear him c... ...iness, Su- san. I shall want help by-and-by. And Alfred must go off to the engineering—I’ve made up my mind to that.” He fell into meditation and fing...

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Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

...y pale, when, all rites being now duly observed, it became the duty of the chief mourner to lower down into the charnel vault, where mouldering cof- f... ...al commentators and monkish historians, whose ponderous volumes formed the chief and most valued con- tents of a Scottish historian [library] of the p... ...ry preferment and distinction. Her younger brother, at an age when trifles chiefly occupied his mind, made her the confidante of all his pleasures and... ... to taste, equally unusual. But it was her expression of countenance which chiefly struck the spectator, and induced most persons to address her with ... ...thout those means of dissi- pating her pleasing visions. This solitude was chiefly owing to the absence of Lady Ashton, who was at this time in Edinbu... ...ght, in his policy or timidity, prefer that of Ravenswood. The Captain was engineer enough to discover that the train was fired; and therefore heard, ... ...th and intellect with no greater sympathy than that with which the hostile engineer regards the towers of a belea- guered city as they reel under the ...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...iibusiness.com ART DIRECTOR Jen Tadaki Catanzariti jent@hawaiibusiness.com CHIEF WRITER Stu Glauberman RESEARCHER Greg Wiles PHOTO ASSISTANTS Tara Zir... ...ion@hawaiibusiness.com Or visit hawaiibusiness.com/innovation CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Duane Kurisu PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICE... ...bs. Additionally, the Kü‘oko‘a Plan supports STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) education and research in high schools and hig... ...bs. Additionally, the Kü‘oko‘a Plan supports STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) education and research in high schools and hig... ...e Wymer Natalie.wymer@sunpowercorp. com (650) 223-9132 OTEC – Makai Ocean Engineering www.makai.com INVESTMENT CONTACT: Reb Bellinger, VP Reb.Bellin... ... heated up today,” says Jerrod Schreck, president of Hoku Solar Inc. and chief strategy ofcer of Hoku Solar’s publicly traded parent, Hoku Corp. “... ...to open a branch ofce on the U.S. mainland, where it plans to expand its engineering, design and system integration oferings. Investing in American... ...ure – between cold, deep- ocean water and warm, surface water. Makai Ocean Engineering Inc., a Honolulu-based, diversifed, ocean-engineering company,... ...ollowing pages, we profle these fve world-class companies. A Derek Duan, chief polymer scientist at Eyegenix, examines the Eyegenix artifcial ...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...Professional Staff Member Madeleine Blot Counsel Antwion M. Blount Systems Engineer Sam Brinkley Professional Staff Member Geoffrey Scott Brown Resear... ...President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outsi... ... President,Vice President, Secretary of Defense,Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley all pa... ...- plete. Others nearby who were taking notes, such as the Vice President’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who sat next to him, and Mrs. Cheney, did no... ...nt again said yes. 219 At the conference room table was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten. Bolten watched the exchanges and, after what ... ...fortune.Though he took part in at least one actual battle, he became known chiefly as a person who gen- erously helped fund the anti-Soviet jihad. 20 ... ...der, the Bureau had several plotters in custody, including Nidal Ayyad, an engineer who had acquired chemicals for the bomb, and Mahmoud Abouhalima, w... ...s intercepts are con- clusive elements in the analyst’s jigsaw puzzle. NSA engineers build technical systems to break ciphers and to make sense of tod... ...Bin Ladin operative known as Abu Hafs the Mauri- tanian—who appeared to be engineering some of the plots—or in Kandahar, to capture Bin Ladin himself....

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The Rise of Peace : (Tuloo e Amn), Dedicated to all victims of terrorist attacks - Muslims, Non Muslims: A Fiction Novel on World Power Politics by Dr Hafiz Shahid Amin..Pakistan

By: Dr. Hafiz Shahid Amin

...itle Of Novel About The Author The Scenario The Preface Chapter-1….Meeting Of World Leaders Chapter-2….Dr Jabran and Robot Sunny Chapter-3….The Chief of ZSCIA Chapter-4… Killing of EX PM Chapter-5….The Naval Fleet of Zulimistan Chapter-6….Deaths of Muslim Leaders Chapter-7…. Zulimistan Thinkers Association Chapter-8…. President David of Zulimistan Chapter- 9......

...ovel About The Author The Scenario The Preface Chapter-1 Meeting Of World Leaders Chapter-2 Dr. Jabran and Robot Sunny Chapter-3…. The Chief of ZSCIA Chapter-4 Killing of EX PM Chapter-5 The Naval Fleet of Zulimistan Chapter-6 Deaths of Muslim Leaders Chapter-7 Zulimistan Thinkers Association Chapter-8 President David of Zulimistan Chapter- ...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...ther through a polytechnic school and satisfy his desire to become a civil engineer. O.M. The old father’s comforts were now curtailed? Y.M. Quite ser... ... ideals upward and still upward toward a summit where you will find your chiefest pleasure in conduct which, while contenting you, will be sure to c... ...then they turn square around and require you to do good for other’s sake chiefly; and to do your duty for duty’s sake, chiefly; and to do acts of ... ...eads a right and valuable life under it he is not deceived as to the real chief motive which im pels him to it—in those other cases he is. Y.M. Is t... ... ideals upward and still up ward toward a summit where you will find your chiefest pleasure in conduct which, while contenting you, will be sure to c... ...d at the other end of the same room on the 6th of October last, as Clara’s chief bridesmaid. Her face was radiant with happy excite ment then; it was... ... me do credit able things in those ancient days; and several white headed engineers; and several roustabouts and mates; and several deck hands who us... ..., geologists, philologists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

..................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON – CIVIL ENGINEER ...................................................... 58 CHAPTER ... ...e will give you the best of himself, like one interested in life and man’s chief end. A Scotchman is vain, interested in himself and others, eager for... ... name?” the Scottish striking at the very roots of life with, “What is the chief end of man?” and answering nobly, if obscurely, “T o glorify God and ... ...hem since the dawn of history. Last, and perhaps most curious, the sons of chieftains were often edu- cated on the continent of Europe. They went abro... ..., I must own that, on a near ex- amination, they look wondrous cloudy. The chief and far the most lamentable change is the absence of a certain lean, ... ... then beginning, by a not unnatural metastasis, to bloom into a lighthouse-engineer, should have a grandson; and that these two, in the fulness of tim... ...estral adventures are beyond even the arith- metic of fancy; and it is the chief recommendation of long pedigrees, that we can follow backward the car... ...e’s, and managed the business of a plantation in St. Kitt’s; I was with my engineer-grandfather (the son-in-law of the lamp and oil man) when he saile... ...unk back with confusion of 53 Memories and Portraits countenance to their engineer. Yes, parts of me have seen life, and met adventures, and sometime...

...III: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK AND TALKERS ........

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