...opped, hating the emotion weakening his voice. “Connor was posted in southern Alberta,” Archer said. “Kept an eye on drug flow between Calgary and t... ...ious ear. “Otto doesn’t win much,” she said. “He hauls around, mainly between Alberta and Montana. Runs cheap horses, claimers.” “I see.” Kurt slow... ... but it was definitely more interesting: LAING, OTTO P.: Male Caucasian, Age 36, Brown Eyes, Brown Hair, Weight 109.7 kg/242 lb, Height 1.8 meters/... ...anything to connect the two men. Couldn’t imagine what Connor had seen on the highway. Dispatch records showed he’d stopped to help Laing with a fl... ...tayed with the RCMP but retreated to a relatively undemanding job in southern Alberta. It had been nine months since Kurt last talked to him, nine ... ...missed the turnoff.” The gardener shook his head. “Nah, just get back on the highway. Head west another five minutes. You can’t miss it.” “I was t...

...50) - mixtures of private and public goods. (Education, the courts, public defense, highway programs, police and fire protection have an) "element o... ...rmative. It converts some public goods into private ones and vice versa. Consider highways - hitherto quintessential public goods. The introductio... ...systems reduced transaction costs so dramatically that privately-owned and operated highways are now common in many Western countries. This is an e... ...Pure Theory of Public Expenditure - The Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 36, Issue 4 (Nov. 1954), 387-9 Pickhardt, Michael - Fifty Years ... ...ech sector. Three million people are employed in these firms. Investments surged by 36 percent in 2001 to $18 billion. But this British exuberance i... ...stments in 2002, reports the MoneyTree Survey. According to the Ernst & Young 2002 Alberta Technology Report released in March 2003, the Canadian h...

...e stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and despaired. 36 Main Street Main Street with its two-story brick shops, its story- and-a... ... to the railroad track, whose direct- ness and dryness make it the natural highway for pedes- trians on the plains. She stepped from tie to tie, in lo... ...armer who was “thinking about selling out here and pulling his freight for Alberta.” He asked the vet- erinarian about the value of different breeds o... ...e copy of the Dauntless, which Aunt Bessie wanted to send to her sister in Alberta, ought to have two or four cents postage on it. Carol would have ta... ...er Prairie jeweler sells out, for no discernible rea- son, and moves on to Alberta or the state of Washington, to open a shop precisely like his forme...

...e stream fed the Por cupine, which in turn joined the Yukon where that mighty highway of the North countermarches on the Arctic Circle. But they had ... ...sionally ob truded, — recollections of marts and galleries and crowded thor 36 JACK LONDON oughfares, of evening dress and social functions, of goo... ...oir, they trickled through the dark forests and mountain passes, threading the highways in bark canoes, or with their moccasined feet breaking trail f... ...d been a Mission girl. Her mother had died when she was very small, and Sister Alberta had plucked El Soo as a brand from the burning, one summer day,... ...h El Soo was vain. There was much argument, expostulation, and weeping. Sister Alberta even revealed to her the project of sending her to the United S... ...or is greater than love, and who am I that I should blacken my father?” Sister Alberta journeyed all the way up from Holy Cross on the first steamer, a... ... and career; and Tom King was the grizzled old chopping block that guarded the highway to fame and fortune. And he had nothing to win except thirty qu...