... top ofthe house, the
picture ofDorianGray grew older every year. The terrible
face showed the dark secrets of his life. The heavy mouth, the
yellow skin, the cruel eyes - these told the ... passed, the face in thepicture grew slowly more terrible.
The Pictureof
Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
retold by
Jill Nevile
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1989
The PictureofDorianGray
of my life. ... intelligent, of course, but with
The PictureofDorianGray
Dorian stood and listened. He could hear nothing —
only the drip, drip of blood onto the floor.
The Hand of a Killer
again. The murdered...
... bc,
while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000
bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area of the
great East African lakes. There they ... ofthe economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the
northern edge ofthe West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier
of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... eight million years ago with the separation of the
hominins (ancestral to human beings) from their closest animal relatives, the
ancestors ofthe chimpanzees. The skull ofthe first known hominin,...
... over-generalized, and chronic. The issues raised
by these incompatible points of view attending the inception of the
notion of social phobia are as relevant now as they were then; they are
as controversial ... examine the
validity ofthe measures devised to ascertain and quantify social anxiety,
as this is most relevant to social phobia.
Examination ofthe validity both ofthe construct and ofthe methods
assessing ... Phobia?
‘ Of all the many wonders, none is more wonderful than man who
has learnt the arts of speech, of wind-swift thought, and the living in
neighborliness.’’
Sophocles
in the grip of panic. The...
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Making the Most of Attaching Mouse Events to Movie Clips
Movie clip instances can also have attached mouse events (as shown in the preceding
exercise). To make the most of this powerful ... the hand
cursor to appear, set the useHandCursor property ofthe instance to false with a
rollOver event:
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on (rollOver) {
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this.useHandCursor = false;
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}
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The ... using the term this as a target path. For example, if you were to place the
following script on a movie clip instance, the instance itself would rotate:
This property is available only to movie...
... general
recovery of downgraded bonds after the initial sell-off. A further
argument is that, even if the bulk ofthe distribution appears
normal, the returns in the tail ofthe distribution, ... institutions.
Lesson 3: The quality of results crucially
depends ofthe quality of assumptions on
parameters. Some of these are of particular
relevance to central banks.
The first part of this lesson ... 64
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TASK FORCE OFTHE MARKET OPERATIONS COMMITTEE OFTHE EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF CENTRAL BANKS
This report was drafted by an ad hoc Task Force ofthe Market Operations Committee of
the European...
... reading of Scripture. Never-
theless, when I read the great theologians ofthe Church, Augustine,
Luther, Calvin, Cocceius, and others, I find the grasp which these men
and women had ofthe whole ... ofthe events themselves. History, rather than the text
of Scripture, had thus become the central focus for understanding the
meaning of Scripture. History and science were now the source of ... ECLIPSE OF OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVE 81
its conclusion. That is, in fact, the blessed hope ofthe Christian. The
return of Christ is the end ofthe story. Or, as C. S. Lewis would say, the
end of...
... in the N-CSR filing, but rather was cited by the fund in a no
action letter filed on the date of support disclosed in the N-CSR.
**This support reason was not noted in the N-CSR filing ofthe ... Jones for their contribution to the data gathering effort. The views expressed in this
paper are those ofthe authors and are not necessarily reflective of views at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston ... it is indicative ofthe loss that would have been realized by the fund sponsor if
it had disposed ofthe security on the same day that the purchase was made from the fund. If the sponsor
instead...
... places, but
declares at the bottom of page 135, " ;The reign of Akbar is one ofthe most important
in the history of India; it is one ofthe most important in the history ofthe world");
Mountstuart ... further their interests, and the peasants
The most powerful of these Rajput chiefs was the Prince of Mewâr who had
particularly attracted the attention ofthe Emperor by his support ofthe ... for followers of other
faiths, with one ofthe greatest stains in the history of humanity. When a tax-collector
gathered the taxes ofthe Hindus and the payment had been made, the Hindu was...
... popularity ofthe movie,
the day ofthe week, and the time ofthe year.
The analysis ofthe price uniformity in the motion -picture industry calls for a distinction
between two puzzling dimensions ofthe ... causes ofthe persistence of the
uniform-pricing regime, and Section 5 concludes.
2. The puzzle
2.1. General characteristics ofthe puzzle
A movie theater offers a spectrum of products, each of which ... significant portion ofthe phenomenon.
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These explanations and others do not apply
to the movie- theater industry.
We study the practice of uniform-pricing in movie theaters and explore the existing...
... popularity ofthe movie,
the day ofthe week, and the time ofthe year.
The analysis ofthe price uniformity in the motion -picture industry calls for a distinction
between two puzzling dimensions ofthe ... causes ofthe persistence of the
uniform-pricing regime, and Section 5 concludes.
2. The puzzle
2.1. General characteristics ofthe puzzle
A movie theater offers a spectrum of products, each of which ... in the motion -picture
industry, themovie puzzle and the show-time puzzle.
1. Themovie puzzle refers to price uniformity across movies that run at the same time.
Namely, the situation of two movies...