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...k VIII. The Business of Risk IX. Global Differential Pricing X. The Disruptive Engine - Innovation XI. Governments and Growth XII. The Distri... ...ese, in turn, foster further consolidation among suppliers, service providers, and manufacturers. Market purists consider oligopolies - not to men... ...ion - and by incessant advertising. Baumol maintains that oligopolies are the real engines of growth and higher living standards and urges antitrus... ...ternative Risk Transfer (ART) financing. It is a hybrid between creative financial engineering and medieval mutual or ad hoc insurance. It often in... ...ados, Ireland, and in the USA: Vermont, Colorado, and Hawaii. Companies - from manufacturers to insurance agents - are willing to retain more r... ...ould be achieved bilaterally, between companies and purchasers, patent holders and manufacturers, global suppliers and countries - or through a mar... ... themselves to the assumption of any kind of risk. Risk is the coal in the various locomotives of the economy, whether local, national, or global. ...

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...rs, two eyes, two hands, two arms, two legs, etc. Just like oil in a working engine: this 13 th Meridian is needed as a buffer for all the other me... ...stantly changing. That is like using oil as a constant because it keeps your engine running smoothly. It is not a constant. It is just constantly... ...rs, two eyes, two hands, two arms, two legs, etc. Just like oil in a working engine: this 13 th Meridian is needed as a buffer for all the other me... ...h publicity you get. Nobody will listen to you at all. Chemical and weapons manufacturers, and the worst corporate polluters in world all use the s... ...m the need to make a profit. If cars were built to last a lifetime; then car manufacturers could not get richer. The basic function of making tools... ...oisoned forms of Life that kill other living things. Just because the seed manufacturers need to sell in bulk in order to make a profit, just beca... ... blackened and yellowed with age. Browned, rotting. Falling apart. Steam locomotives: Black coal fueling huge iron engines… whitewashing their d... .... Turning black coal into white steam. Turning black oil into diesel powered locomotives. Oil refineries… turning black oil into transparent gasol...

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...(Peronist- leaning umbrella labor organization), Argentine Industrial Union (manufacturers' association), Argentine Rural Society (large landowners' a... ...ns (1985); exports $83.52 million, imports $300.12 million Major industries: engineering and metal products, processed food and beverages, chemicals, ... ...cations Railroads: 953 km, all 1.067-meter gauge; 32 km double track; diesel locomotives gradually replacing steam engines Highways: 32,250 km total; ... ...eter gauge; 32 km double track; diesel locomotives gradually replacing steam engines Highways: 32,250 km total; 6,084 km concrete or bituminous surfac... ...mmerce (Communist controlled), Feder- ation of Hong Kong Industries, Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Professional Teachers'... ..., wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, barley Major industries: mining, metallurgy, engineering industries, processed foods, textiles, chemicals (especially ... ...Democratic, and UIL Social Democratic, Socialist, and Republi- can); Italian manufacturers association (Confindustria); organized farm groups (Confcol... ...adougou, Burkina Faso, line, all single track 1.000-meter gauge; only diesel locomotives in use Highways: 46,600 km total; 3,600 km bituminous and bit...

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.... Over a concrete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night re... ...en driver, with him waited through taut hours for the roar of the starting engine, with him ago- nized as the roar ceased and again began the infernal... ...the tremendous crises of each day none was more dramatic than starting the engine. It was slow on cold mornings; there was the long, anxious whirr of ... ... factories stained with tar, high-perched water-tanks, big red trucks like locomotives, and, on a score of hectic side- tracks, far-wandering freight-... ... the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce had re- ported to a committee of manufacturers that in every city where he had appeared, Mr. Monday had turn... ...interested in ‘em.” II Though he exulted, and made sage speculations about locomotive horse-power, as their train climbed the Maine mountain-ridge and... ...y and firmly. The Monarch Chamber of Commerce gave them a banquet, and the Manufacturers’ Association an afternoon recep- tion, at which a chrysanthem... ...ritan tradition. McKelvey was being placidly merry now with the great, the manufacturers and bankers, the land-owners and law- yers and surgeons who h...

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...ommander of the National Guard in his own town and one of the most capable manufacturers of the department, found himself of so little account in Pari... ...m in the morning.” “How could I help it? I never saw such a debtor! he’s a locomotive; goes to sleep in Paris and wakes up in the Seine- et-Oise. A sa... ...usand francs to realize an idea that will be useful to humanity,—the steam-engine for instance,—and you’ll die, like Salomon de Caux, at Bicetre; but ... ...d Gazonal. “You’ve said it,” replied the corn-cutter, decisively. “No more manufacturers?” asked Gazonal. “The state will manufacture. We shall all be...

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...g there, as if they had made up their minds to retire from business and be manufacturers of honey no more. The day was made for laziness, and lying on... ...untry; of improving your mind by the constant con templation of the steam engine; and of earning a com fortable and independent subsistence of from ... ...n, scoring down the figures with evident delight, and working like a steam engine. There stood Dick, gazing now at the green gown, now at the brown he... ...the clustered roofs, and piles of buildings, trembling with the working of engines, and dimly resounding with their shrieks and throbbings; the tall c... ... could do nothing himself, but he over looked everybody else and was more locomotive than anybody. The work of packing and making ready went briskly ...

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...he compact vigor of a man, and by the sole act of its will it puts immense engines in motion, and wields or collects the efforts of its authority. Ind... ...send for their share of the treasure. [When the author visited America the locomotive and the railroad were scarcely invented, and not yet introduced ... ...condescended to write any treatise on the manner of constructing all these engines of offence and defence. And as he held this science of in- venting ... ...d defence. And as he held this science of in- venting and putting together engines, and all arts generally speaking which tended to any usetul end in ... ...dministration of the country ultimately assume the man- agement of all the manufacturers, which no single citizen is able to carry on? And if a time a... ...eir taste for commerce and manufactures.* *It has often been remarked that manufacturers and mercantile men are inordinately addicted to physical grat... ...num- bers of the manufacturing classes: we shall now see by what side road manufacturers may possibly in their turn bring men back to aristocracy. It ...

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... the Sahib.’ said Kim, and dodged sideways among the cases of the arts and manufacturers wing. A white bearded Englishman was looking at the lama, wh... ...older boys prancing on sticks of sugar cane, dragging rude brass models of locomotives such as they sell for a halfpenny, or flashing the sun into the... ... minutes, expecting to see them hurry up the line girt for action. A light engine slid through the station, and he caught a glimpse of young Barton in... ... search thy bulk head at Lahore. I saw his face as they helped him on the engine. The very same man.’ ‘Why didst thou not tell before?’ ‘Oh, he will ... ...iple. ‘We will put these things behind us,’ he said, indicating the brazen engine and the gleaming track. ‘The jolting of the te rain–though a won de...

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...d his moulds. In the round bay window were his operating chair, his dental engine, and the movable rack on which he laid out his instruments. Three ch... ...- lutely unnecessary. McTeague turned, one foot on the pedal of his dental engine, the corundum disk whirling between his fingers. It was Marcus Schou... ...ched her curiously. There was a silence. The corun- dum burr in McTeague’s engine hummed in a prolonged monotone. The canary bird chittered occasional... ...g elephant. Heise stood rubbing his shoulder. “Might as well try to stop a locomotive,” he muttered. “The man’s made of iron.” 103 Frank Norris Meanw... ...ht destitution. The dentist continued idle. Since his ill success with the manufacturers of surgical instruments he had made but two attempts to secur...

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... par ticular figure which this generation requires today. The W alden 24 manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two patt... ..., sail by it, look ing another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses. If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains. If the bel... ...track repairer some where in the orbit of the earth. The whistle of the locomotive penetrates my woods summer and winter, sounding like the scream ... ... come the books, but down goes the wit that writes them. When I meet the engine with its train of cars moving off with planetary motion nor, rather,... ...e elements their servants for noble ends! If the cloud that hangs over the engine were the perspiration of heroic deeds, or as beneficent as that whic... ...in a bog. So they came and went every day, with a peculiar shriek from the locomotive, from and to some point of the polar regions, as it seemed to me...

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...may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to day. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two pa... ...igor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses. If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains. If the b... ... be a track repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth. The whistle of the locomotive penetrates my woods summer and winter, sound ing like the scr... ...; up come the books, but down goes the wit that writes them. When I meet the engine with its train of cars moving off with planetary motion, — or, rat... ...the elements their servants for noble ends! If the cloud that hangs over the engine were the perspiration of heroic deeds, or as beneficent to men as t... ...t in a bog. So they came and went every day, with a peculiar shriek from the locomotive, from and to some point of the polar regions, as it seemed to ...

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...r side is another thing. It is very steep, and for those who have not good locomotive power of their own, will be found to be dis- agreeable. In the f... ... from all bed-room accommodation as the baker’s barrow does from the steam engine into which it is to be converted by Harlequin’s wand. But the negro ... ... As he approaches the end of his first installment of travel and while the engine is still working its hardest, a man comes up to him, bear- ing with ... ...o, nor, indeed, on the railway was there a sufficiency of rolling stock or locomotive power to bring it into Chicago. As I said before, the country wa... ...passenger is uneasy either with hopes or fears, and then the grease of the engines offends one’s nostrils. But it is worth the tourist’s while to look... ...the town through the streets. The cars are not dragged through the city by locomotive engines, but by horses; the pace therefore is slow, but the conv... ...nterprise—that I or any one else could open a mill at Lowell, and that the manufacturers there were or- dinary traders, as they are at other manufactu...

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...e- times fatal, disease known as gravel. And our society, rush- ing like a locomotive along its metaled track, is heedless of the all but imperceptibl... ...because she herself could have no children in spite of efforts worthy of a locomotive engine. A diabolical impulse prompted her to plunge her young st... ... herself could have no children in spite of efforts worthy of a locomotive engine. A diabolical impulse prompted her to plunge her young stepson, at t... ...lay out in piles according to certain mysterious rules; but then the steam-engine was condemned as absurd, aerial navigation is still said to be absur... ...put in a word; La Cibot talked as the wind blows. Means of arresting steam-engines have been in- vented, but it would tax a mechanician’s genius to di... ...omance in his professional career; his practice lay among clerks and small manufacturers, people in his own sphere of life, with homes very much like ...

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...o more: that is, patentees of highly questionable methods of thinking, and manufacturers of highly questionable, and for the majority but half valid r... ...is deliberate; and the metamorphosis of Leporello into Enry Straker, motor engineer and New Man, is an intentional dramatic sketch for the contemporar... ...his wife. She prevents him by threatening to throw herself in front of the engine of the train he leaves her in. That is what all women do. If we try ... ...ch you to be a gentleman there. In the Polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See? TANNER. Sarcasm, Tavy, sarcasm! Oh, if you coul... ...d wanted money instead of food. I know his clumsy typewriters and bungling locomotives and tedious bicycles: they are toys compared to the Maxim gun, ...

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...f, who only shook his head. ‘This Doyce,’ said Mr Meagles, ‘is a smith and engineer. He is not in a large way, but he is well known as a very inge- ni... ...e, much worse fed and lodged and treated altogether, than—Mr Plornish said manufacturers, but appeared to mean malefactors. Why, a man didn’t know whe... ...nt had enabled him to gratify his ardent wish to bind himself to a working engineer, under whom he had laboured hard, learned hard, and lived hard, se... ...ools, and straps, and wheels; which, when they were in gear with the steam-engine, went tearing round as though they had a suicidal mission to grind t... ...thing had been labouring hard since the entrance of the little man, like a locomotive engine with a great load getting up a steep incline. Maggy, now ...