a study in contrasts by bruce catton

Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2013, 09:18

... cause cascading failure across many nodes. De-localisation means that there are many more places and events that can transmit failure, and major structural stresses can build at a global scale. ... financial failure, a fast and powerful positive 8 enabled the more than doubling of the human population, each individual on average consuming more year-on-year, and habituating to that. ... the principal ways of gaining overall efficiency is by letting individual parts of the system share the costs of transactions by sharing common infrastructure platforms (information and transport...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... national emergency, generally war.  e principal direct tax was the land tax, ori- ginally a tax on real and personal property and incomes 20 but it became a tax purely on land in the nature ... tax administration, particularly since the statutes invariably provided their determination was  nal, 134 and in many instances made no provi- sion for appeal to the regular courts of law ... that everyone was paying their due taxes and promoted public co-operation. To use a traditional means of tax administration which was famil- iar and understood by all taxpayers and sympathetic...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... so in finance, we have many masters acting under a very dim and inoperative accountability. Of course under such ministration our financial policy has always been unstable, and has often strayed ... constitutional balances and administrative arrangements are many years behind the actual practices of the government at Washington, and that we are farther than most of us realize from the times and ... President's cabinet have always been prominent in administration; and certainly the early cabinets were no less strong in political influence than are the cabinets of our own day; but they...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

... bear some of the archaic markings common on the rock faces both in Scotland and in Central Australia: on large rocks they are painted, in Australia, in Scotland they are incised. I maintain that ... circles, a cupped stone, and a large quartz crystal of the kind which Apaches in North America, and the Euahlayi tribe in New South Wales, use in crystal gazing. In early ages, after the metals had ... pattern. In Australia, in Portugal, in Russia, in France, in North America, in Scotland, as we shall see, such stones may be unmarked, may bear no inscription or pattern. {81} These are plain...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20

... and Tran Nhu An (2005). Towards a Viable Microfinance Sector in Viet Nam: Issues and Challenges. nternational Labour Organization in Vietnam. Working Paper. No.5. Lapar, Ma Lucila A. , Vu ... Lebailly, Nguyen Tuan Son 1051 in responding to agricultural and rural development. The formal sector, including VBARD, VBSP and PCFs was the main credit source in the rural area (Lan and ... situation were that they were afraid of not being able to repay their loans, afraid of being refused, lack of collateral and high interest rate. Among the households having applied for loans,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 13:20

... says, "certainly have quite elaborate 'ape-ways' into which a newcomer is gradually acculturated, including among other patterns ways of using available instruments for reaching ... for nearly a thousand years of philosophical growth, beginning with the early Church Fathers and culminating in the great Scholastics. But, at last, its generative ideas—sin and salvation, nature and ... language." 5 An interpretation of observed facts that adjusts them to a general scientific outlook, a theory that bridges what used to appear as a saltus naturae, a logical explanation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:25

... was used for the fabrication of SiNWs (Fig. 1). For metal-assisted growth, the transition metal such as Au or Ni was used as a catalyst. The substrate was put in a quartz tube furnace which was ... and SiS 2 atoms are quickly flowed away by the protected gas to an area with lower temperature (B in Fig. 4A) . When temperature decreases, the Si atoms are easier to reach saturation in quasi-liquid ... give an example of using Au as the catalyst. As seen from Fig. 2A, if the reaction temperature is increased to be above the eutectic point of 363 °C (such as T1), a liquid alloy can form and will...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:09

... demonstrated that a definite locative prepositional phrase relates in a different syntactic way to certain locative adverbs than does an indefinite one and that if the latter is to be incorporated ... Class B. Though we have not fully examined entailment by Class B adverbs, we can say that the phrase entailed by any of these Class B adverbs is also entailed by the Class A adverbs. We aim ... related in a prompting role to each and every potential affirmative locative expression and an interrogative welch-component also systematically re- lated in a prompting role to all potentially...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

... Canadian capacity in a manner worthy of Downing street in its palmiest days. Mr. Churchill had the bright idea of coming to Canada to take a hand personally in the controversy. A Canadian-born ... government's hesitation in taking part in the South African war in advance of the meeting of parliament; this, plus injudicious and provocative speeches by the incalculable Mr. Tarte and the ... provisions in the British North America act, which gave the Dominion parliament the power to enact remedial educational legislation overriding provincial enactments in certain circumstances. Again...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... transformed into Nigger Jack, and are prepared with a narrative of some runaway slave to explain the cognomen. It may also occur in the same language. In an Algonkin dialect missi wabu means ... way, and must always direct their course by the cardinal points. The morning star, which at certain seasons heralds the dawn, was sacred to him, and its name in Ojibway is Wabanang, from Waban, ... representation of inanimate things as animate, to include also the representation of irrational beings as rational, as in the "animal myths," a most common form of religious story among...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

... Neda Mehrdad, Mariam Ansari and Akram Sajadian Address: Iranian Centre for Breast Cancer (ICBC), Tehran, Iran Email: Ali Montazeri* - ali@jdcord.jd.ac.ir; Mandana Ebrahimi - ebrahimiman@yahoo.com; ... ebrahimiman@yahoo.com; Neda Mehrdad - neda_mehrdad@yahoo.com; Mariam Ansari - ansari@yahoo.com; Akram Sajadian - asadjadian@yahoo.com * Corresponding author Abstract Background: A cross sectional study was conducted ... presentation to a medical professional and initial treatment). Prolonged delays usually defined as intervals greater than 12 weeks [3]. Delay and late stage at diagnosis of breast cancer are related to...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... inspection). Using a needle, I sculpt the chain mail. This is done line by line, making sure that the needle does not go too far into the GS. I finish it by adding a small band of duro around the chain mail ... will normally only need a little when making miniatures, and you can always mix more). - One can accelerate the drying time of the duro by placing it under a lamp (warning! If the heat is too ... stays fresh, it is a good idea to keep the GS in the fridge. - After having obtained a beautiful green color (by mixing for at least a minute), remove any "yellow grains" or parts that...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... nearly two centuries longer. National feeling was particularly inflamed against the papacy because the "Babylonish captivity" of the pope at Avignon made him appear an instrument in ... February, 2002, contributions are being solicited from people and organizations in: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, ... social organization: the pastoral stage was patriarchal, the agricultural stage was feudal, the commercial stage was plutocratic, and the industrial stage leads towards democracy. The stages, of...

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