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...Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray V anity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray BEFORE THE CURTAIN AS THE MANAGER OF THE PER... ...instantly to me,” said Miss Pinkerton. And so venturing not to say another word, poor Jemima trot- ted off, exceedingly flurried and nervous. Miss Sed... ...er the end of a novel, were it ever so stupid; and as for saying an unkind word to her, were any persons hard-hearted enough to do so—why, so much the... ...mutton and half pint of wine), taking out his pencil and scoring under the words “foolish, twaddling,” &c., and adding to them his own remark of “Quit... ...gs of exultation and gratitude, bereavement and sickening dismay, when the lists of the regimental losses were gone through, and it became 358 V anit... ...t, even now, feel at second-hand this breathless pause of expectation. The lists of casualties are carried on from day to day: you stop in the midst a... ...ine carriage, and her fine horses, and her name on half the public charity-lists of the town, was a lonely, miserable, persecuted old maid. She though...

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...gham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage by W . Somerset Maugham I THE DAY BROKE GRAY AND DULL. The clouds hung heav... ...id, feeling that she could console the child better than anyone. Without a word Philip slipped off his uncle’s knee, but Mr. Carey stopped him. “ We m... ...r own son—she had taken him when he was a month old—consoled him with soft words. She promised that she would come and see him some- times, and that s... ... Philip for an instant. The child spoke in a clear treble. He recalled the words, but they meant nothing to him. “ Y ou’d better take one of the photo... ...st be treated with respect and which were in low water . Now and then long lists of figures were given him to add up. He at- tended lectures for his f... ...Medical School. Just inside the door a num- ber of notices were pinned up, lists of lectures, football fixtures, and the like; and these he looked at ... ...ly the question recurred, but flung now like a challenging gauntlet in the lists: Why not order today? “I’m the press representative of Lynn and Sedle...

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...2 The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues Seymour H. Fine With Foreword by Philip Kotler Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger ... ...loyment Recruits and Earnability 93 STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS -- HOW TO GET THERE AND BY WHAT METHODS 93 Market Segmentation 94 PRODUCT STRATEGY 95 D... ...e spread of propaganda. Another reason for adopting this philosophy is that the word propaganda suffers from pejorative connotation, just as inde... ...ulcation of ideas into the minds of those opposing the established order, in other words, brainwashing. Webster's New World Dictionary , in fact , ... ...r words, brainwashing. Webster's New World Dictionary , in fact , states that the word is "now often used disparagingly to connote deception or dist... ...n to digress is difficult to curb. The scope here is confined to ideas that stand by themselves as products. Considered beyond the area of discour... ...are merely representative and not all will be discussed in the text. The top row lists exchanges for which no profit to the seller was intended to ... ...exchanges for which no profit to the seller was intended to accrue; the bottom row lists exchanges in which profit was the principal motivation. The... ...n considers services rendered, the third column covers ideas and the fourth column lists causes or social issues. Examples of items appropriate to ...

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...This publication consists of a series of lectures prepared and given to interns and other employees by Mr. David G. Boak in 1966. Mr. Boak is uniquely qualified to discuss the history of the US COM_SEC because he has participated significantly in most aspects of its modern development over the past twenty years....

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... World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S ... ...lization often stands in inverse proportion to its value and valuation (as measured by an objective, neutral, disinterested party). This is true esp... ...ied to the firms' market capitalization, management strives to maximize the former by manipulating the latter. Very often, the only way to affect t... ...nting system; • Budgeting and budget monitoring and controls; • Internal audits (frequency and procedures); • External audits (frequency and pro... ...andom, though somehow related to the aforementioned "value" of the share. In other words, the price of a security is supposed to converge with its ... ...e of return, or a yield - known as the earnings yield. The original meaning of the word "yield" - income realized by an investor - was undermined b... ...ed using limit orders relative to market orders." Transparent short sales, in other words, increase the volatility of shorted stocks. Studies of th... ...el of skewness and coskewness of returns, probability of a crash occurring, or the frequency of crashes, when short-selling is possible and when it... ...litics ("World in Conflict and Transition"). Owner of the Narcissistic Abuse Study Lists and the Abusive Relationships Newsletter (more than 6,000 ...

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...ting & Finance, Griffith University, Australia. Copyright 2003 by W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, and Xiquan, 510 E. Tow... ...their interactions with different ideational spectra. This was introduced by one of the authors, Florentin Smarandache. A few of the mentionable cha... ...ear 1986. It was a fuzzy extension of the cognitive map pioneered in 1976 by political scientist Robert Axelrod [5], who used it to represent knowle... ...l of service and the convenience factors. We have the following elements, Frequency of the service, in-vehicle travel time, the travel fare along the... ...e notations to the concepts involved in the analysis as below. C 1 - Frequency of the vehicles along the route C 2 - In-vehicle travel time al... ...total effect of concept C 1 to C 7 is positive or negative, or in other words if the increase of the population of the city will increase or decre... ...uantity fuzzy sets (Q i ) and dis-quantity fuzzy sets( ~ Q i ). In other words, we assume that (FCR-2) is equivalent to (FCR-3) in stock market give... ...ely scholarly debate. Should judges render a decision based merely on the words of the text before them or should they go one step further and attem... ...uzzy Cognitive Maps. The bibliographic list given below is exhaustive and lists all those research monographs, dissertations and publications that w...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory ...

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...esses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....

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... Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, a...

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...omes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole to bedrock...

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...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...gs) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...sity is an equal opportunity university. 3 e e cummings THE ENORMOUS ROOM by E. E. CUMMINGS (Edward Estlin Cummings) INTR INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCTION... ...finished the unlovely job of cleaning and greasing (nettoyer is the proper word) the own private flivver of the chief of section, a gentle- man by the... ...ersa- tion with monsieur le sous-lieutenant, met me half-way. I caught the words: “And Cummings” (the first and last time that my name was correctly p... ...en the threshold: “Mais, on est bien ici.” A hideous crash nipped the last word. I had supposed the whole prison to have been utterly destroyed by ear... ...- ity among les hommes. Not only were they placed in dun- geon vile with a frequency which amounted to continuity; their sentences were far more sever... ... les hommes who were to pass la commis- sion, another of les femmes. These lists were given to the planton with the Wooden Hand. In order to avert any...

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...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a pub... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way . The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University , Electronic Classi... ...pportunity university . Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I THE OBJECT OF THIS E SSAY is to explain as... ...ower or privi lege on the one side, nor disability on the other. The very words necessary to express the task I have undertaken, show how arduous it ... ... and openly it was avowed, I do not say cynically or shamelessly—for these words imply a feeling that there was something in it to be ashamed of, and ... ... will hold out the strongest inducements to them to undertake. And, as the words imply, they are most wanted for the things for which they are most fi... ...spot pleases, and thus setting in a strong light what must be the terrible frequency of things only a little less atrocious. Absolute fiends are as ra... ...live in different parts of the house and have to tally different visiting lists, as in the reign of Louis XV. They cannot help having different wishe...

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...ECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...sity is an equal opportunity university. 3 John Stuart Mill AUTOBIOGRAPHY by JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHILD... ...ect, is that of committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he ... ...ting to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he wrote out for me on ca... ...learn Latin, I was forced to have recourse to him for the meaning of every word which I did not know. This incessant interruption, he, one of the most... ...l cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words. He also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books w... ...e to be enough of it if actions were properly cared about. Offended by the frequency with which, in ethical and philosophical controversy, feeling is ... ... abled her to disregard the false interpretations liable to be put on the frequency of my visits to her while living gener ally apart from Mr. Taylo...

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...e mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make ...

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...ent or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ty university . ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER TY TY TY TY TY By JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I... ...erty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by soci ety over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ev... ...ften wrong as the other; the interference of government is, with about equal frequency, improperly invoked and improperly condemned. The object of thi... ... neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us: if the lists are kept open, we may hope that if there be a better truth, it will... ...life blameless and respected. The high priest who rent his garments when the words were pronounced, which, according to all the ideas of his country ,... ...of Christ. This man, a better Christian in all but the dogmatic sense of the word, than almost any of the ostensibly Chris tian sovereigns who have s... ...e months imprisonment, for uttering, and writ ing on a gate, some offensive words concerning Christianity. Within a month of the same time, at the Ol...

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...n many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for...

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...emarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether so-... ...must feel for the event. Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by ... ...ion of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, 7 The Federalist Papers or will flatte... ...solution of the Union arrives, America will have reason to exclaim, in the words of the poet: “Farewell! A long farewell to all my greatness.” Publius... ... must be, themselves the judges; and the most numerous party, or, in other words, the most powerful faction must be expected to prevail. Shall domesti... ...s. What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors? This branch of trade ought not to be cons... ...into several confederacies, there will be as many different national civil lists to be provided for—and each of them, as to the principal de- partment... ...aken ground. If, in addition to the consideration of a plurality of civil lists, we take into view the number of persons who must necessarily be empl... ...al to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty ann...

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...ed States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this report without dissent....

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...t 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash sit... ...onsideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan di... ...nal oversight and resource allocation, and other areas determined relevant by the Commission. In pursuing our mandate, we have reviewed more than 2.5 ... ...roller only heard something unintelligible; he did not hear the spe- cific words “we have some planes.” The next transmission came seconds later: Amer... ... had taken a dramatic turn to the south.At 8:32, the Command Center passed word of a possible hijacking to the Operations Center at FAA headquarters.T... ... after 8:50, while NEADS personnel were still trying to locate the flight, word reached them that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. 119 Radar da... ... In the first months of 1999, the Joint Staff had developed broader target lists to undertake a “focused campaign” against the infrastructure of Bin L... ...uld have suggested changes to fix glaring vulnerabilities—expanding no-fly lists, searching passen- gers identified by the CAPPS screening system, dep... ...locate your base? Some of the same places come up again and again on their lists: • western Pakistan and the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region • sout...