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...bie was invented by Ruth Handler in 1959. It was modelled on a minuscule German sex doll called "Lilli". Barbie was the nickname of Ruth's daughter,... ...). More than 1 billion Barbies were sold by 1996. Mattel commemorated this event by manufacturing a "Dream Barbie". http://www.people.virginia.e... ...s and killed 60 people. Chile, 1960 Property damage: Pegged at millions of US dollars. Casualties: 5700 killed and 3000 injured. Side eff... ...grams of fuel, 72 grams of chemicals and 32 kilograms of water are consumed in the manufacturing of a typical two-gram chip. A 32-MB RAM microchi... ...954 and The Nobel prize for Peace in 1962. http://www.nobel.se/ Nokia Some companies have at least nine lives, it would seem. Nokia was fou... ...bira, Salora, Televa and Luxor of Sweden and became a consumer electronics group - manufacturing televisions and such. Nokia continued with its... ...the United Kingdom, and 1,23 in continental Europe. Thus $14,100 is 14 thousand US dollars in the United States - but only 14 dollars and ten cents... ...ing the presidency of Warren G. Harding. It involved the secret leasing to private companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in ... ... Tel- Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): ...

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... He knew rooms like this well. They were rented out for fifteen or twenty dollars a month (600 or 700 baht), barren, hot, and unventilated as an atti... ...decadence thereby increasing public intrigue with him. She was the pretty doll he could swing about as a reminder of his one-man school of art. He,... ...ld you become if needed-any type of job that can at least grant you eighty dollars worth of free falling baht each month?" "I don't know. I'm ti... ...d was a loveless and ceaseless factory that replicated over and over again manufacturing slightly damaged and terribly damaged products with impunity.... ...taste, Electric piecemeal billboards for Singh Beer and cellular telephone companies with new images rotating with the pieces, plain billboards of pim...

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...able television was dominated by a patchwork of thousands of tiny, family-operated companies. Today, a pending deal would leave three companies in ... ...of risk are booming industries. Governments, capital markets, banks, and insurance companies have all entered the fray with ever- evolving financial... ...nking sector, mergers with non- banking financial intermediaries (such as insurance companies), and the introduction of credit derivatives and other... ...e houses. They have invaded the latter's turf by insuring hundreds of billions of dollars in pools of credit instruments, loans, corporate debt, a... .... Captive.com counts the advantages of self-insurance: "The alternative to trading dollars with commercial insurers in the working layers of risk, ... ... and Medecins Sans Frontieres, rooted for a reform of the TRIPS agreement - or the manufacturing of generic alternatives to branded drugs. The "he... ...f Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) convention allow for compulsory licensing - manufacturing a drug without the patent holder's permission - an... ...rket, and so on. Differential pricing was made possible by the application of mass manufacturing to the knowledge society. Many industries, both em... ...ded 20-fold between 1986 and 1999, when annual trading volume exceeded 13 trillion dollar. Swiss Re Economic Research and Consulting had this to ...

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...tes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experimenting with p... ... Sam Vaknin Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation The... ...ual removal of layers of content brokering and intermediation - mainly in manufacturing marketing - is the continuation of a long term trend. Conside... ...eviously imposed by the need to invest in costly "branding" campaigns and manufacturing and distribution activities. This trend is also likely to... ...similar labour market trends. But distributors, publishers, and record companies are not going to vanish. They are going to metamorphose. This is... ...ailable through the web - and the need to charge customers less than 1 US dollars to a few dollars per transaction ("micro-payments"). Various servic... ... monopolies (patents, trademarks, copyright) and their cost advantages in manufacturing and marketing. But they are faced with three inexorable proc... ...ys to be open. Have you ever considered why, with the hundred millions of dollars granted to found e- Libraries at the major universities some ten ye... ...h should you charge? Most independent electronic publishers charge a few dollars for their titles, anywhere from $1 each to about $5 or $7 per e-boo...

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... from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collud... ...empirically fixed at 10% of the market in any one good or service. In other words: companies should be encouraged to capture up to 10% of their mar... ...capacity expansion in the industry (simply buying it, leasing it or taking over the companies that own or develop it). This serves to "deny competi... ...se Seko or a Saddam Hussein or a Ferdinand Marcos who absconded with billions of US dollars from the coffers of Zaire, Iraq, and the Philippines, r... ...he coffers of Zaire, Iraq, and the Philippines, respectively. These inconceivable dollops of hard cash and valuables often remain stashed and unto... ...bound to reflect reality and reality is hierarchical and inclusive ("The Matriushka Doll Principle"). "Chair" – Solid structure Intended for sitting... ...abor has neglected many service industries to concentrate on its core competence - manufacturing. But it has zealously guarded this bastion of trad... ...merge as the sole suppliers. The trend towards globalisation-of markets as much as manufacturing-was seen as another cause of this loss of engineer... ...ine of American productivity, the pursuit of speculative profits at the expense of manufacturing, the deterioration of our country's material infra...

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... from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collud... ...empirically fixed at 10% of the market in any one good or service. In other words: companies should be encouraged to capture up to 10% of their mar... ...capacity expansion in the industry (simply buying it, leasing it or taking over the companies that own or develop it). This serves to "deny competi... ...se Seko or a Saddam Hussein or a Ferdinand Marcos who absconded with billions of US dollars from the coffers of Zaire, Iraq, and the Philippines, r... ...he coffers of Zaire, Iraq, and the Philippines, respectively. These inconceivable dollops of hard cash and valuables often remain stashed and unto... ...bound to reflect reality and reality is hierarchical and inclusive ("The Matriushka Doll Principle"). "Chair" – Solid structure Intended for sitting... ...abor has neglected many service industries to concentrate on its core competence - manufacturing. But it has zealously guarded this bastion of trad... ...merge as the sole suppliers. The trend towards globalisation-of markets as much as manufacturing-was seen as another cause of this loss of engineer... ...ine of American productivity, the pursuit of speculative profits at the expense of manufacturing, the deterioration of our country's material infra...

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...umbers; then the only thing which matters in Life is increasing the number of dollars in your bank account, then abstract greed becomes the ruling c... ... human civilization; then billionaires spend their lives amassing billions of dollars, then the love of money eclipses human love and people become ... ...sed over and over: the repeating of these words was the first process of mass-manufacturing ever invented. Language duplicates the basic dynamics of... ... and Outer awareness. Science practices this double standard. So do lumber companies and mining companies, and chemical companies. Their adverti... ...st, they stop practicing altogether. Moreover; it costs tens of thousands of dollars… and what adult has that kind of money, or the time or the ener... ... natural resources cheaply to other countries? Do they allow other country’s companies to come in and take over their own hydroelectric power plants... ...ations… so one company, one corporation can become more successful than other companies. So one person can become richer than another person. By ke... ... universal symptom; but the universal root cause is civilization itself. Mass manufacturing and duplication is a human cultural disease! Not just i... ...ld’s energy today. And that doesn’t even include the nitrates used in weapons manufacturing. By continually robbing Peter to pay Paul, and sweeping...

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...de wood, are not eminently prepossessing, but are much less objectionable. There is a tramp-fellowship among them. They pick one another up at resting... ...ve grown in them, girls have bloomed into women in them, court- ships and marriages have taken place in them. True cham- bers never were young, childi... ...o cool sea-breeze. Mosquitoes and fire-flies are lively enough, but most other creatures are faint. The coquettish airs of pretty young women in the t... ...he litter was first descried coming dancing round the corner by the great cathedral, were so completely deposed now, that nobody save two little girls... ...est India Islands, and, in the pursuit of knowledge he asked me with much interest whether in the course of my reading I had met with any reliable des... ...throwing of stones at the windows of railway carriages in motion—an act of wanton wickedness with the very Arch-Fiend’s hand in it—had become a crying...

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...my poultry-roosts are the mark they aim at. You shall have a glance at the manufacturing district some day. You shall see the machines they work with.... ...han a fit of Republicanism in the nursery, and a deposition of the leading doll for lack of variety in him. That conqueror of circumstances will, the ... ...that winks at remarkable pretensions, while con- demning it perpetually to doll-like action. You look on men from your own elevation as upon a quantit... ... for neces- sity rules, that exactly so, under stress of activity must the doll Nevil, the doll Everard, or the dolliest of dolls, fair woman, behave.... ...er ‘Every time I have landed, colonel, I have gone to the min- ing and the manufacturing districts, the centres of industry; wherever there was dissat... ... realm. See the consequences. For power, for no other consideration, those manufacturing rascals have raised Radicalism from its primaeval mire—from i... ...spiritual manner she could muse on as a circumstance out of her life. Fair companies of racing yachts were left behind. The gales of August mattered f...

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...II A DEED knocks first at thought, And then it knocks at will. That is the manufacturing spot, And will at home and well. It then goes out an act, Or ... ...s starving makes it fat. 44 LXIX REMORSE is memory awake, Her companies astir,— A presence of departed acts At window and at door. Its pa... ... in the country church, Is finished using now, And they can put it with my dolls, My childhood, and the string of spools I ’ve finished threading too....

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... I can remember, when I was a very little girl indeed, I used to say to my doll when we were alone to gether, “Now, Dolly, I am not clever, you know ... ...e I busily stitched away and told her every one of my secrets. My dear old doll! I was such a shy little thing that I seldom dared to open my lips, an... ...school of a day to run upstairs to my room and say, “Oh, you dear faithful Dolly, I knew you would be expecting me!” and then to sit down on the floo... ...y chit. Good bye! When I tell you that I have fifty eight new letters from manufacturing families anxious to understand the de tails of the native an... ...use – Vol. One the satisfaction with which he sees them uninjured, and ac companies Mrs. Snagsby from the Sol’s Arms. Before night his doubt whether ...

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...lini, and the Emperor Charles V. were at the top of their fame, and each was manufacturing history after his own peculiar fashion; Margaret of Navarre... ...ges, had a princely salary—from a hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars a month, and no board to pay. T wo months of his wages would pay ... ... Cincinnati to New Orleans, where I could doubtless get a ship. I had thirty dollars left; I would go and complete the exploration of the Amazon. This... ...ancient tub called the “Paul Jones,” for New Orleans. For the sum of sixteen dollars I had the scarred and tarnished splendors of “her” main saloon pr... ...mills, machine shops and wagon factories—in brief has $1,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries. She has two railways, Life on the Mississippi ... ...ife I would have. Two miles away, several regi ments were in camp, and two companies of U.S. cavalry. When I learned that Captain Blakely, of Compan... ... teller. Not to seem partial, I made friends and told fortunes among all the companies garrisoned there; but I gave Company C the great bulk of my att... ... was not expecting to live to see Natchez and these other river towns become manufacturing strongholds and railway centers. Speaking of manufactures r... ...rm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. Davenport is the...

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...e gladness to Lincoln’s heart than any other were the meetings held in the manufacturing centres, by the very operatives upon whom the war bore the ha... ...the general interests of the community as a direct tax of several thousand dollars annually laid on each county for the benefit of a few individuals o... ...lost his horse at Dixon’s ferry and having acquaintance in one of the foot companies who were going down the river was desirous to go with them, and o... ...held there since we met, which recom- mended a loan of several millions of dollars, on the faith of the State, to construct railroads. Some of the Leg... ...roposed by this resolution must cost the State some ten or twelve thousand dollars; and all this to settle a question in which the people have no inte... ... Weber’s most foolish affidavit, to prove that Talbott had been engaged in manufacturing it two months before? In another part of his address, Gen. Ad...

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...e common action, and has tended rather to the small battery theory. My two companies were playing with the idea that the ideal battery was a battery o... ... H G Wells more capable of going to war without the connivance and help of manufacturing states than horses are capable of fly- ing. And this makes po... ...ls that strike one as incongruous as if a monster began kangaroo and ended doll’s perambulator. (These wheels annoy me.) They are not steely monsters;...

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... I can remember, when I was a very little girl indeed, I used to say to my doll when we were alone to gether, “Now, Dolly, I am not clever, you know ... ...e I busily stitched away and told her every one of my secrets. My dear old doll! I was such a shy little thing that I seldom dared to open my lips, an... ...school of a day to run upstairs to my room and say, “Oh, you dear faithful Dolly, I knew you would be expecting me!” and then to sit down on the floo... ...y chit. Good bye! When I tell you that I have fifty eight new letters from manufacturing families anxious to understand the de tails of the native an... ...ouse – Dickens the satisfaction with which he sees them uninjured, and ac companies Mrs. Snagsby from the Sol’s Arms. Before night his doubt whether ...

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...these visits it was, that I, as a young pet whom they carried about like a doll from my second to my eighth or ninth year, learned to know them; so as... ...ol and Manchester), were deluged with gold and silver coins, moidores, and dollars, from the Spanish 76 Memorials, and Other Papers mint of Mexico, e... ...r) plates, which all reasonable people had supposed to be reserved for the manufacturing hands of some remote century. “Armiger, pack up your traps”—“... ... tyranny; for, the captains and *Originally, it seems, there were fourteen companies (or capitanerias) settled by imperial diplomas in the mountains o... ...hey had gradually swelled into a train of sixteen hundred, in- cluding two companies of dragoons, who had joined them by the emperor’s orders at one o... ...mportance whether this change had arisen from some discovery in the art of manufacturing A, which reduced the quantity of labor required from four day... ..., even in rural industry, though more tardily improving its processes than manufacturing in- dustry, the tendency is always in that direction: agricul...

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...them listening to the garbage of that shameless fellow. ” The play was The Doll’s House and the author was Henrik Ibsen. Professor Erlin classed him w... ...een to a play in his life till then (poor 147 W. Somerset Maugham touring companies sometimes came to the As- sembly Rooms at Blackstable, but the Vi... ...licitor explained that the growth of modern businesses and the increase of companies had led to the formation of many firms of accoun- tants to examin... ...ng man had been en- gaged in an intrigue with a girl who played in touring companies, and his account of the affair filled Philip with envious amazeme... ... peculiar. The most sub- stantial part consisted of women from the smaller manufacturing towns, who were too elegant to have their frocks made locally...

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... to pull down Law; there was Law him- self (beside whom other promoters of companies are but pigmies); there was Bouret and Beaujon—none of them left ... ...as still as fresh and as brightly colored on the cheek-bone as a Nuremberg doll; her eyes were lively and bright; a closely- fitting bodice set off th... ...s taken in, he has himself to blame, nobody sells him a pig in a poke. The manufacturing industry—” “Ah!” exclaimed Bixiou, “here comes industry—” “— ... ... that there is a constant quantity of rich people to be taxed? Joint-stock companies, limited liability companies, every sort of enter- prise that pay... ...produces some evils. From the caps and the Rue Saint- Denis to joint-stock companies and the Bank ——draw your own conclusions.” “A crown for Couture!”...

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... small caps, rather larger than if they had been made for a moderate-sized doll, with a small piece of lace, in the shape of a horse-shoe, let in behi... ...ather) in thinking that it’s high time something was done with these steam companies, and that as the Cor- poration Bill failed to do it, something el... ... and a room-door. Imagine, in addition to this incongru- ous mass, a black doll in a white frock, with two faces— one looking up the street, and the o... ...several hours from to-morrow morning, adding them to the night before, and manufacturing a compound night of the whole. The quarter-day arrived at las... ... superintending the cooking operations below stairs, and looked like a wax doll on a sunny day. ‘Mr. Simpson, I beg your pardon—Mr. Simpson—Mrs. Maple... ...asions, in various instances, un- der many circumstances, and in different companies, fallen to my lot to propose a toast to those by whom, at the tim...

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...droom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand. She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details, and lim ited... ...is idiotic smile he could not forgive himself. Catching sight of that smile, Dolly shuddered as though at physical pain, broke out with her characteri... ...give a severe and resolute expression, betrayed bewilderment and suffering. “Dolly!” he said in a subdued and timid voice. He bent his head towards hi... ...rmany, in Prussia, in France, and in England—not in the capitals, but in the manufacturing towns, and saw a great deal that was new to me. And I’m gla... ...eral development of wealth in Russia, credit, facilities of communi cation, manufacturing activity, indubitably necessary in Europe, where they had a... ... were the spirit monopolies abolished than the railways came up, and banking companies; that, too, is profit without work.” “Yes, that may all be very ... ...apter 17 679 gamated agency of the southern railways, and of certain banking companies. This position, like all such appointments, called for such imm... ...the committee of the amalgamated agency of the Southern Railways and banking companies.” Stepan Arkadyevitch was familiar by now with the title of the...

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...forts was ideal. Saudi Ara- bia and the United States supplied billions of dollars worth of secret assistance to rebel groups in Afghanistan fighting ... ...ss and terrorist enterprises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank accounts and nongovernmental institu... ...strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan’s cur- rency. Some of Bin Ladin’s companies ran short of funds. As Sudanese authorities became less obliging,... ... assassination. Moreover, he calculated that it would cost several million dollars. He was not prepared to take that money “out of hide,” and he did n... ...tives and agents.And they had reason to worry about fail- ure: millions of dollars down the drain; a shoot-out that could be seen as an assassination;... ...fa, a Khartoum pharma- ceutical plant, which intelligence reports said was manufacturing a precursor ingredient for nerve gas with Bin Ladin’s financi... ...ttalions. Each battalion contained typically between three and four engine companies and two to four ladder companies. In total, the FDNY had 205 engi...

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...or others, that when we have submitted our persons to the charge of public companies, immediately, as if the renouncing of our independence into their... ...e uniforms, with their yellow facings on red jackets, I never saw out of a doll-shop, and never saw there. And their Horse Guards, weedy to a man! fit... ...op, and never saw there. And their Horse Guards, weedy to a man! fit for a doll-shop they are, by my faith! And their Foot Guards: Have ye met the fel... ...as difficult at first to realise a position of rivalry that threatened our manufacturing inter- ests in their hitherto undisputed lead in the world’s ... ... Rockney’s was new to a land where the politi- cal opinions of Joint Stock Companies had rattled Jovian thunders obedient to the nod of Bull. Though n...

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...ped before her. “Sit down.” Agatha sat down with a single movement, like a doll. “I don’t understand that, Agatha,” said Miss Wilson, point- ing to th... ...ork long and hard, early and late, to add fresh value to his raw cotton by manufacturing it. Out of the value thus created by them, they were to recou... ...As the British factories are shut up, they will be replaced by villas; the manufacturing districts will become fashionable 186 An Unsocial Socialist ... ...dividends due to shareholders resident in En- gland, but holding shares in companies abroad, and these imports will not be paid for by ex ports, becau... ...ure production, for a few directions as to the most busi- ness-like way of manufacturing and selling cotton, cannot but wonder, as I prepare my income...

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... small caps, rather larger than if they had been made for a moderate-sized doll, with a small piece of lace, in the shape of a horse-shoe, let in behi... ...ather) in thinking that it’s high time something was done with these steam companies, and that as the Cor- poration Bill failed to do it, something el... ... and a room-door. Imagine, in addition to this incongru- ous mass, a black doll in a white frock, with two faces— one looking up the street, and the o... ...several hours from to-morrow morning, adding them to the night before, and manufacturing a compound night of the whole. The quarter-day arrived at las...

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...e and hut of which his own books were read in his own tongue, one grateful dollar piece to buy a garland for his grave. Oh! if every man who goes from... ...tiny convalescents that they seem to be playing at having been ill. On the doll’s beds are such diminutive creatures that each poor sufferer is suppli... ...much delight to honour. Elsewhere, through the agency of the great railway companies, some of which are bestirring themselves in this matter with a ga... ...r drawing, a chemical class, subdivided into the elementary branch and the manufacturing branch, most important here. I find that there is a day schoo...

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...weet woman, who has begun by showering kisses on the hard pate of her bald doll, creating a happy soul within that woodenness from the wealth of her o... ... “tion,” and worthy to be pronounced emphatically, without being a useless doll. When she made remarks to this edifying effect, she had a firm little ... ...— “Y es, a very decent family—a very good fellow is Vincy; a credit to the manufacturing interest. Y ou have seen him at my house, you know.” “Ah, yes... ... at their sewing, and Letty in a corner was whispering a dialogue with her doll, Mr. Farebrother came up the orchard walk, dividing the bright August ... ...ed that his bias was towards getting the best possible terms from railroad companies). He put up his gig at Y oddrell’s, and in walking with his assis... ...ung gentleman lying on the rug or warbling at the piano. But the people in manufacturing towns are always disreputable.” “You began by saying that one...

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