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...lders meet once a year to vent and disperse. Boards of directors are appointed by management - as are auditors. Shareholders are not represented i... ...its forms, has failed. The notion that we can safely and successfully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a... ...ter Butcher (Der Metzgermeister)", arranged over the Internet to meet Bernd Jurgen Brandes on March 2001. Meiwes amputated the penis of his guest a... ...s amputated the penis of his guest and they both ate it. He then proceeded to kill Brandes (with the latter's consent recorded on video), and snack... ... consensual cannibalism. Consensual, in vivo, cannibalism (a-la Messrs. Meiwes and Brandes) resembles suicide. The cannibal is merely the instrumen... .... If a firm improves itself, re-engineers its production processes, introduces new management techniques, modernizes - in order to fight the compe... ...a hostile bid in the stock exchange just in order to disrupt the proper and orderly management of the competitor. Anything which derails the competi... ...e targets" to intimidate competitors into yielding their market share. Proliferate Brand Names Contract with customers to "meet or match all price ... ...ertising campaigns should be banned and the ban should be enforced. Proliferate "brand names" to make it too expensive for small firms to grow. -...

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...Contents of The Snow Image & Other Stories 4 THE SNOW-IMAGE: A Childish Miracle 19 THE GREAT STONE FACE 37 ETHAN BRAND 53 THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS 62 THE DEVIL IN MANUSCRIPT 69 MY KINSMAN, MAJOR MOLINEUX...

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... A Childish Miracle 19 THE GREAT STONE FACE 37 ETHAN BRAND 53 THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS 62 THE DEVIL IN MA... ...ould by and by appear, bearing a resemblance to the Great Stone Face. ETHAN BRAND: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance BARTRAM THE LIME BURNER, a r... ... “You will never make a man, I do believe; there is too much of your “Ethan Brand” Nathaniel Hawthorne 37 mother in you. I have known the rustling... ...lking thus, sat watching the same lime kiln that had been the scene of Ethan Brand’s solitary and meditative life, before he began his search for the ... ...may be an intensely thoughtful occupation; as it proved in the case of Ethan Brand, who had mused to such strange pur pose, in days gone by, while th... ...hrewd sect), they will have a due respect for my experience, and give me the management of the trading part of the concern, in which case I think I ca...

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.... Martingales, Chiffney bits, boots; where you got the best soap, the best brandy, the name of the chap who rode a plater down the Khyber cliffs; the ... ... underdone but not too un- derdone; that both men preferred a good liqueur brandy after lunch; that both women drank a very light Rhine wine qualified... ...of thin, tepid, pink india rubber, and it is disagreeable to have to drink brandy when you would prefer to be cheered up by warm, sweet Kümmel. And it... ...d to have to look on at the accounts of his estate and have no hand in the management of it. She was trying to do him a kindness. And, up in Chitral, ... ...nora was too ill to stay in that place. She said: “You understand that the management of the whole of the expen- diture of the income will be in your ... ...f a woman she knew very well. Beneath it she read the words: “The Hon. Mrs Brand, plaintiff in the remarkable divorce case reported on p. 8.” Nancy ha... ... to make Nancy skip those pages. She read, at any rate, the account of the Brand divorce case— principally because she wanted to tell Leonora about it...

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...hey are mere phantasmagoria, highly creditable to Loki’s imaginative stage-management; but noth- ing ever has perished or will perish eternally in the... ...ding it. But however offensive and inhuman may be the supersti- tion which brands such exaltations of natural passion as shameful and indecorous, ther... ...sake of theatrical effect when stage-managing it, making Wotan pick up and brandish a sword to give visible point to his sudden inspiration as to the ... ... as the most execrable of living scoun- drels and to put upon Gallifet the brand that still makes him impossible in French politics as it was for Vict... ...ave already mentioned that Wagner, unable, when it came to practical stage management, to forego the appeal to the eye as well as to the thought, here... ... to the eye as well as to the thought, here made Wotan pick up a sword and brandish it, though no such instruction appears in the printed score. When ... ...with entire and elaborate seriousness as the sole purpose of them; and the management is jealous for the reputation of Wagner. The commercial success ...

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...pensed with! Zarxas sang war songs with a sling around his head; Autaritus brandished his great sword; Spendius whispered a word to one or gave a dagg... ...ple were convened in the square of Khamon, and it was decided to leave the management of things to Hanno, the conqueror of Hecatompylos. He was a true... ...compressed within circles of diamonds, and with open mouth 85 Flaubert he brandished a pike of inordinate size, which spread out at the end like a lo... ...he seats and the torches: the crowd of them rushed towards the altar; they brandished daggers. But Hamilcar dived into his sleeves and drew from them ... ...m; he had re- strained himself too long. “Bring them here!” he cried; “and brand them on the fore- head with red-hot irons as cowards!” Then they brou... ...more acrid desire. He saw himself alternately in the midst of the soldiers brandishing the Suffet’ s head on a pike, and then in the room with the pur... ... come back again, would never rest. Spendius envied his energy; but in the management of spies, the choice of sentries, the working of the engines and...

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... Thorgeir was preparing to row out with two other men, one of whom was named Brand, Thorgeir was walking ahead with a leather skin on his back contain... ... grey very early. He was called Longhair. Thorgrim occupied himself with the management of his estate and kept all the men of his household hard at wo... ... should not both go away unhurt, and that if Bjorn refused to fight he would brand him as a coward. Bjorn saw that excuses would not avail him, so he ... ...young son named Illugi, a youth of much promise. Atli had taken over all the management of the farm and the goods, and things went much better, for he... ...alldor then gave him six men; one was named Kar, another Thorleif, the third Brand. The names of the others are not mentioned. These eighteen men then...

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...this time] No; but why did you choose that business? Saving money and good management will succeed in any business. MRS WARREN. Yes, saving money. But... ...urage I should spend the rest of my life in telling everybody—stamping and brand- ing it into them until they all felt their part in its abomina- tion...

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...Sir Robert Naunton. Paul Hentzner was a German lawyer, born at Crossen, in Brandenburg, on the 29th of January, 1558. He died on the 1st January, 1623... ... arms, as well for men as for horses in horse-fights; the lance of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, three spans thick; two pieces of cannon, the one ... ... noble and very ancient in the family of Boleyn; though some errone- ously brand them with a citizen’s rise or original, which was yet but of a second... ...have framed to their hands a maxim of more discretion, for the conduct and management of their new-graved lord and master. But to omit that of infusio...

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... Access to the stage is so easily obtained; and the plays preferred by the management are those in which the stage is filled with young women who are ... ...ther it could not be construed as a seditious libel as well. As to Ibsen’s Brand (the play which made him popular with the most earnestly religious pe...

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...He, like the others, was a school prefect. The house prefects, an inferior brand, 152 The Longest Journey were beyond, and behind came the indistingu... ...e has given a gang of foolish people their opportunity. I don’t like being branded as the day- boy’s foe, when I think how much I would have given to ... ...m. The world as Ansell saw it seemed such a fan- tastic place, governed by brand-new laws. What more could one do than to see Rickie as often as pos- ... ...t with his two hundred a-year, and never come troubling them again. Clever management, for one knew him to be rapacious: she had heard tales of him le... ...turday. Thus Stephen left Wiltshire, half-blackguard, half- martyr. Do not brand him as a socialist. He had no quarrel with society, nor any particula...

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..., or sav- age barbarity. Tell them of cruel scourgings, of mutilations and brandings, of scenes of pollution and blood, of the ban- ishment of all lig... ...y employment; for in nothing was Colonel Lloyd more particular than in the management of his horses. The slight- est inattention to these was unpardon... ...e in Master Hugh and his once kind and affectionate wife. The influence of brandy upon him, and of slavery upon her, had effected a disastrous change ... ...aler; and at the same time they hug to their communion a man- stealer, and brand me with being an infidel, if I find fault with them for it. They atte...

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...Russian leather cartridge-belt, and in his Scotch cap with ribbons, with a brand-new English gun without a sling. Laska flew up to him, welcomed him, ... ...s in that character, he derived even greater satisfaction from it. And his management of his estate, which occupied and absorbed him more and more, wa...

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...ld, and he wore earrings. By his side on a chair stood a large decanter of brandy , whence he poured himself a little from time to time to keep up his... ...ade, on the other hand, agri- culture properly so called, and the internal management of the farm, suited him less than most people. He did not will- ... ...flanked by four chitterlings with sorrel. At the corners were decanters of brandy. Sweet bottled-cider frothed round the corks, and all the glasses ha... ...and of half-easy things, in which force is exercised and vanity amused—the management of thorough- bred horses and the society of loose women. A few s... ...with bursts of laughter; three millers in a small parlour were calling for brandy; the wood was blazing, the brazen pan was hissing, and on the long k... ... shouted the landlady, “chop some wood, fill the water bottles, bring some brandy, look sharp! If only I knew what dessert to offer the guests you are... ...his pipe in the square. Being also in the habit of drinking a good deal of brandy , he often sent the servant to the Lion d’Or to buy him a bottle, wh...

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...lavery on most well- managed plantations. But Tuskegee is, nevertheless, a brand-new chapter in the history of the Negro, and in the history of the kn... ...ggies, steam-engines, newspapers, books, statuary, carving, paintings, the management of drug-stores and banks, has not been trodden without contact w...

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...e, which he so dexterously wielded, both in the nimble, strong, and smooth management of that 91 Rabelais weapon, and that in all the feats practicab... ...wder, strewed it round about the compass of the cords, and stood by with a brand of fire or match lighted in his hand. Presently came the horsemen wit... ...only for their virtues, learning, genteel behaviour, domestic consolation, management of the house, and matrimonial conveniences and comforts, and suc... ...t; for he was killed on the seventeenth day after he had attained unto the management of the imperial charge. The very same lot, also, with the like m... ... these two gates of sleep, to which you have been pleased to recommend the management of what you have in hand. The one is of ivory, which letteth in ... ...t able to judge aright of the deservings of a man when he is called to the management of affairs; for when before he lived in a private condition, we ... ...t within the concave of his mouth his afore-mentioned thumb; then fiercely brandishing the whole hand, which he made to rub and grate against his nose... ...ay, sometimes it will not sat- isfy unless in its very quintessence, as in brandies; though an excess of this betrays want of sobriety, as much as an ... ...monk-hawks whom you see bardocuculated with a bag such as you use to still brandy, sing like any woodlarks? Pray do, said we. He then gave half- a-doz...

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...ry in order to enter into possession, and also to decide about the further management of his lands; whether it was to continue in the same way as when... ... an expression of respectful attention. The merchant, diffusing a smell of brandy around him, and restraining loud hiccups, approvingly nodded his hea... ...melkoff some white powder given to her by the said Kartinkin, dissolved in brandy. 4. The next morning the said Lubka (alias Katerina Maslova) sold to... ...koff sonic kind of powder, which she thought was a narcotic, in a glass of brandy, hoping he would fall asleep and that she would be able to get away ... ...rsuaded Katerina Maslova to give it to the merchant Smelkoff in a glass of brandy, which was the cause of Smelkoff’s death. Do you plead guilty?” said... ... in. He was lying behind the partition, and at once called for 43 Tolstoy brandy. I took a bottle of ‘fine champagne’ from the table, poured out two ... ...the accounts. The state of things there and the peasants’ relations to the management, i.e., the landlord, had therefore been long known to him. The r... ... the peasants to the administration were those of utter dependence on that management. Nekhludoff knew all this when still a university student, he ha... ...Of- fice, and was very proud of his duties there. His occupa- tion was the management of Government spies. “Why, I served with your father. We were fr...

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... oil, I will give you sucking-pig and kasha. We will have dinner with some brandy and liqueur to it…. I’ve cloudberry wine. Hey, von Sohn, don’t lose ... ...y . Fyodor Pavlovitch was silent again for two minutes. “A drop of brandy would be nice now,” he observed sen- tentiously, but Ivan made no re... ... exhilarated condition, and on entering the arbour he saw half a bottle of brandy and a wineglass on the table. “That’s brandy,” Mitya laughed. “I... ...Don’t think I’m talking nonsense be- cause I’m drunk. I’m not a bit drunk. Brandy’s all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk: ... ...e and preserves had been served. Fyodor Pavlovitch liked sweet things with brandy after dinner. Ivan was also at table, sipping cof- fee. The servants... ...id insert this in the proto- col, he showed the most praiseworthy tact and management. After sternly reprimanding Mitya, he cut short all further in- ...

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...ncontrollable and controllable environments. Examples are competitiveness, brand image, etc. Competitiveness represents a general competitive positio... ...can be further advanced using Adaptive Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. Strategic Management is defined as a system of action programs which form sustainabl... ... team of the IAMSR institute has developed a support system for strategic management, called the Woodstrat, in two major Finnish forest industry cor... ...system is modular and is built around the actual business logic strategic management in the two corporations, i.e. the main modules cover the market ... ...Provide customers administrative support Provide customers system for management of their inventory and ordering Automatic Ordering ease with... ...ize user preferences and restructure a website to create a more effective management of workgroup communication etc. This paper by K.C. Lee et al...

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...mark gives me a limited right to exclude other people from using my mark, or brand name, or product shape, just as copyright and patent law give me a ... ...ood Chapter 1 6 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 6 brand name and invest in consistency of its key features, knowing that no... ... for consumer information in which firms have incentives to establish quality brand names and consumers can rely on the meaning and the stability of th... ...ction but relies heavily on the trademarks accorded to favored designers and brands. There are “knockoffs” of Armani or Balenciaga, but the wealthy st... ...inal cost). Pirates will copy the song, the mousetrap, the drug formula, the brand. The rest of the argument is well known. Lacking an ability to excl... ...ot restrict itself solely to proprietary formats protected by digital rights management. It also allows uncontrolled MP3 files despite the fact that th... ...sier to understand—at least for those of you for whom talk of digital rights management, anticircumvention provisions, and network effects is not seco... ...y be listened to by a particular person in a particular room. Digital rights management technology makes it a lot easier to do these things. Suddenly ... ...als, it becomes pretty clear that DRM really stands for Digital Restrictions Management. 4 In Mr. Johansen’s view, CSS was simply an attempt to contro...

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...ce of the state, (b) family duties, (c) relations with my friends, and the management of my affairs. 32 War and Peace – Book Six 27th November I got ... ...nt, spend- ing comparatively little, the way of life at Otradnoe—Mitenka’s management of affairs, in particular—was such that the debts inevitably inc... ...y in Moscow and Petersburg, came to see him. Berg arrived in an immaculate brand-new uniform, with his hair po- maded and brushed forward over his tem...

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...erable. The chocolate will soon be hot. But would you rather have a taste of brandy? I have scarcely touched the bottle which you brought me for my co... ...; a stiff neck compelled her to hold her head on one side. “I will take some brandy,” said Edna, shivering as she removed her gloves and overshoes. Sh... ...puttered, in Edna’s hair, just over the center of her forehead. “Quite new; `brand’ new, in fact; a present from my husband. It ar rived this morning... ...own more of it all than Pauline, and not so much as Pelagie. He had left the management of the big plantation with all its memories and traditions to ... ...hat his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery.” Desiree’s Baby – Chopin 98 A Respecta A Respecta A Re...

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...e enigmati- cal guest was making efforts to get away. They brought him the brandy. The old man mechanically took the glass, but his hand trembled, and... ...respondence. Though the prince did not interfere with Nikolay Sergeyitch’s management, he sometimes gave him advice which aston- ished the latter by i... ...e to make an upset in another person’s house. Police!” And she flew at me, brandishing her fists. But at that in- stant we heard a piercing, inhuman s... ...ere three bottles containing Sauterne, Lafitte, and Cognac, very expensive brands from Eliseyev’s. Alexandra Semyonovna was sitting at the tea-table, ... ...would be! “Don’t be anxious, Sashenka. We’ll drink a cup of tea, too, with brandy in it, to your health.” “Well, there it is! “ she cried, clasping he... ...us a present of it the day before yesterday, and he wants to drink it with brandy. Don’t listen to him, Ivan Petrovitch, I’ll pour you out a cup direc...

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..., they will rather redound to their shame than comfort, bearing the odious brand of bastards. Harlots, likewise are like swallows, flying in the summe... ...thrifty, wise, peaceable, secret, of a retired temper, and constant in the management of his affairs. A long head and face, and great, withal, denotes...

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...skers, and wider from chest to back than across the shoulders. He had on a brand-new uniform showing the creases where it had been folded and thick go... ...o the count’s orders with pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a... ... table with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her brandishing the slab. Helene’s face became terrible, she shrieked and spran... ...pposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased with their management and embezzlement of money , some after their first fright were a... ... strong and had handrails. Everything bore an impress of tidiness and good management. Some domestic serfs Pierre met, in reply to inquiries as to whe... ...ce of the state, (b) family duties, (c) relations with my friends, and the management of my affairs. 27th November I got up late. On waking I lay long... ...y in Moscow and Petersburg, came to see him. Berg arrived in an immaculate brand-new uni- form, with his hair pomaded and brushed forward over his tem... ...ore the hunt, by old custom, the count had drunk a silver cupful of mulled brandy, taken a snack, and washed it down with half a bottle of his favorit... ... anywhere. Anisya Fedorovna left the room. After supper, over their cherry brandy, Rostov and “Uncle” talked of past and future hunts, of Rugay and Il...

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...the figures; but there is something enlivening in a hatred of so genuine a brand, hot as Corsican revenge, and sneering like Voltaire. Pencils, school... ...the reverse of delight- ing us when it is applied, in Colonel Jack, to the management of a plantation. But I cannot help suspecting Thoreau to have be... ...tunity. Not only was there an opening for him in Scotland, a smoulder- ing brand of civil liberty and religious enthusiasm which it should be for him ...