... machinery, the liability of trains to run off 28 AroundtheWorldin80Daysthe line, collisions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow— were not all these against Phileas Fogg? Would he not find ... Phileas 16 AroundtheWorldin80Days Fogg had Fallentin for his partner As the game proceeded the conversation ceased, excepting between the rubbers, when it revived again ‘I maintain,’ said ... spent, 158+; or, in days, six days and a half.’ These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and...
... master going out He heard it shut again; it was his predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn Passepartout remained alone inthe house in Saville Row of 339 AroundtheWorldin80Days Chapter ... twenty minutes before nine; five minutes later the whistle screamed, and the train slowly glided out of the station 31 of 339 AroundtheWorldin80DaysThe night was dark, and a fine, steady rain ... mathematically from the trains upon the steamers, and from the steamers upon the trains again.’ ‘I will jump—mathematically.’ ‘You are joking.’ 24 of 339 AroundtheWorldin80Days ‘A true Englishman...
... overwhelming: inthe mornings she would linger behind the weather-stained front door that opened onto the Rue Royale, gathering her courage to plunge into the indifferent crowd The offices of the ... were not only racing aroundthe world; they were also racing through the very heart of the Victorian age ON THE SURFACE THE TWO WOMEN scheduled to depart at nine-thirty inthe morning; shortly before ... taking a draw and blowing the smoke into the mouth of the man sitting next to him; the intoxication was said to last five days, “and for that period they are in Paradise.” The longer she spent in...
... existing literature by examining whether and how the changes in bank ownership structure (including, in particular, the increased presence of domestic blockholders) aroundtheworld affect capital ... inthe past decade has significantly changed the ownership structure of banking systems aroundtheworld These privatizations were perhaps inpart driven by the well documented findings about the ... ji s gj , (3) where k=1 90 indexes the 90 countries inthe sample, j=1 J indexes the banks’ shareholders, i=1 10 indexes the10 largest banks inthe country, sji is the share of bank i that is...
... expressionless Then suddenly, the five members of the Taiwanese bargaining team begin talking to each other in animated Chinese, with jovial, approving expressions on their faces This goes on for five minutes ... giving to the time constraints involved Special interest groups play a routine partin decision making in many cultures In Latin America, for example, thein uence from special interest groups such ... virtues of win-win, or interest-based, negotiations This means that both you and The Other Side (TOS) win inthe negotiation After having conducted seminars on negotiating with thousands of participants...
... reproduce and use them inthe book and on the accompanying website, or for answering questions of mine on them (in the order of apperarance of the samples inthe book): Kevin Wilde (www.yorkshire-dialect.org) ... languages are neither stable nor secluded – they always change inthe course of time, and especially inthe modern world they are continuously getting in contact with and influencing each other (so that, ... mother tongues, for instance, as suggested in Figure 1, inthe classic shopping and bargaining encounters in tourism All aroundthe globe, English is learned by hundreds of millions of people in...
... used by the Northern Chin of Burma, the banging on the roots of trees practised by the Melanesians, the yodelling of the Swiss, the humming of the Chekiang Chinese and the smoke signals of the American ... (Hawaiian), skin peeling or falling off after either sunburn or heavy drinking; or karelu (Tulu, India), the mark left on the skin by wearing anything tight Another Ulwa word, yuputka, records something ... Otherworldly 143 All Creatures Great and Small 149 Whatever the Weather 163 Hearing Things 171 Seeing Things 179 Number Crunching 185 What’s in a Name? 201 Foreword My interest inthe quirkiness...
... broadband uptake International Internet bandwidth, GBit/s International Internet bandwidth, GBit/s 90’000 80 000 WorldWorld 70’000 Developed Developed 60’000 Developing Developing 50’000 40’000 ... for providing high-speed Internet access to a growing number of Internet users has grown exponentially over the last five years, from 11’000 Gbit/s in 2006, to close to 80 000 Gbit/s in 2011 • ... speed intervals † Breakdown by speed available only for part of the total fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions †† June 2 010 data Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database 100 % The...
... classified inthe Commtouch Data Center as “Reported Web Forgery.” Unknowing users were tricked into supplying their account information to the cybercriminals who could then use the information to gain ... and the subsequent drop inthe amount of spam being transmitted, the levels have slowly returned to the levels they were before the incident Spammers Target ISPs A new tactic that emerged inthe ... tricked into believing that the message was a legitimate technology article recommended by someone inthe community; both the “Sender” and the closing line refer to the Tech Update service The hyperlink...
... start 200 feet apart, A on L and A' on L' A circular building 100 ft in diameter lies midway between the paths and the line joining A and A' touches the building They begin walking inthe same direction ... any line M, the line R(M) is obtained by reflecting M first in L and then in L' Rn(M) is obtained by applying R n times If M is the line y = 19x/92, find the smallest n such that Rn(M) = M 12 The ... vertices have the segment joining them inside the polyhedron rather than on a face or edge? 11 A line L inthe complex plane is a mean line for the points w1, w2, , wn if there are points z1, z2,...
... similar to its ranking inthe OECD and ITU rankings, and inthe individual usage sub-index the U.S ranks 10th Inthe sub-index describing business readiness the U.S ranks 3rd, and in business usage ... American law making or the independence of its judiciary Moreover, inthe more relevant sub-index of the WEF/Insead index (the sub-index that focuses on individual network readiness) the U.S ranks ... 25 -100 , and over 100 Mbps The Commission first reported using these more fine-grained data in its Fifth Report While the more fine-grained data is important, conceptually, the FCC is collecting the...
... to increases in volumes We will also support the scientific innovation crucial to sustaining the malaria fight In collaboration with existing private-public partnerships, including the Medicines ... publicprivate partnerships at the local level The business community has expertise that could be valuable in developing and supporting innovative business solutions and bringing them to the public ... public sector in developing countries to accelerate progress in reaching MDG Private Sector Opportunity Approximately 80% of the population in India and 50% in some parts of Africa receive their health...
... Policy As indicated by the examples in this report, youth are interested in participating in savings and are accumulating assets in youth savings initiatives aroundtheworld Additionally, these ... savings account at SEWA CENTER FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS 10 YOUTH SAVINGS AROUNDTHEWORLD TRY is an integrated program combining savings, micro-credit, training in ... WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS 13 YOUTH SAVINGS AROUNDTHEWORLDWorld Savings Bank Institute (2007) Best of WSBI member trainings on savings mobilization: Ten years of sharing innovations in...
... respectively; these also lie on the circle, and H = AD ∩ BE The polar of the line AD is the intersection of the tangents AA and DD, and the polar of the line BE is the intersection of the tangents ... find (cos B + sin B)2 + sin2 B = (cos C + sin C)2 = sin2 C Expanding this and cancelling like terms, we determine sin2 B + sin B cos B = sin2 C + sin C cos C Now note that 2(sin2 θ + sin θ cos θ) ... for any point P inthe interior of the triangle P QR, there exists a tetrahedron ABCD such that P is the point of the face ABC at the greatest distance (measured along the surface of the tetrahedron)...
... completely inside the parallelogram It intersects the line AC in two points; let the point farther from C be P2 then the locus is the intersection of the segments AP1 and CP2 We begin by proving that ... B Then 2R sin α = BC xa = BP + P Q + QC = xa cot β + xa + xa cot γ 2R sin α = + cot β + cot γ 2R sin α sin β sin γ = sin β sin γ + cos β sin γ + cos γ + sin β 2R sin α sin β sin γ = sin β sin ... that the tangency point must lie on line AC Let I1 be the center of the circle inscribed in ∠BAD Let I2 be the center of the circle inscribed in ∠BCD Let X represent the tangency point of the...