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...osition of a singular people. She did a little mischief by dropping on the stock-markets; in other respects she was harmless, and, inasmuch as she est... ...ins, but trustworthy for their work. In the later life of the family, they preferred the provincial state of splendid squires to Court and political h... ... Mi no, mi no, No ve sposero.’ ‘This astounding vagabond preferred Nostrani to his heart’s mistress. I tasted some of their Nostrani... ...e high dolour and anxiety of the whole nation, and which a politic country preferred to forget, as we will do, for it was but an instance of strong fa... ...eculation. His great feet planted on their heels faced him, suggesting the stocks; his arms hung loose. Full many a hero of the alehouse, anciently am... ...d too small a sense of the value of what he possessed, and the diminishing stock would be likely to cry out shrilly. To this effect, never complaining... ...sted by Cecilia to hold the reins. His fair companion in the pony-carriage preferred to lean back musing, and he had leisure to think over the blow de... ...T oryism: a word with an older flavour than Conservatism, and Mr. T uckham preferred it. By all means let workmen be free men but a man must earn his ... ...air half of our blood in him. And Rich- ard Beauchamp gave the fellow good stock. He has about the best blood in England. That’s not saying much when ...

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...aptain John Peter Avason Kirby, son of a Lincolnshire squire of an ancient stock, was proud of his blood, and claimed descent from a chief of the Dani... ...s; she would not imagine them to give a centre of warmth, her wilful grief preferred the blank. It resembled death in seeming some hollowness behind a... ...over the mountain from their empty home. She could get up enthusiasm for a stocked hamper! And when told of some business that drew him to a meadow th... ...viour on board Lord Brailstone’s coach. ‘It’s like Foreign Affaits and the Stock Exchange,’ he said to the more intelligent males. ‘If I want to know ... ...od, Lady Arpington paid Livia an afternoon visit; and added thereby to the stock of her knowledge and the grounds of her disapprobation. Down in White... ...ous, if he was to keep the countess, in sight? She was a nice lady, and he preferred her good opinion. She was brave, and he did her homage. It might ... ... had choice among the pick of women: the daughter of the Old Buccaneer was preferred by the wise- acre Coelebs. She tricked him cunningly and struck a... ...ionship, much of the night’s dry tur- moil in their heads. Each would have preferred the sight of an enemy; and it was hardly concealed by them, for t... ...n him was instructive as to her craft and the direction of her wishes. She preferred the braving of hazards and horrors be- side her brother, in scorn...

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...He understood perfectly what a personification was—and an allegory. But he preferred to be illiterate. Josephine found out what a miner’s checkweighma... ...his wind back, without letting them know he was strug- gling: and a sheer, stock-stiff hatred of the pair of them. “I like the man,” said Jim. “Never ... ... off Aaron’s feet when the flau- tist arrived, and which he had washed. He preferred that no outsider should see him doing these things. Yet he prefer... ...ges? You had the start. And at this very moment you could buy me up, lock, stock, and barrel. So don’t feel hard done by. It’s a lie.” “You’ve got you... ... had made him sleep too well: robbed him of his night, like a narcotic. He preferred to be more uncomfortable and more aware of the flight of the dark... ...ed, and had little notices pinned on them. Some were open, and seemed half-stocked with half-elegant things. Men were carrying news- papers. In the ca... ...themselves did show, through the gaps in the wrapping. Aaron winced—but he preferred it to English tightness. He was pleased, he was happy with the It... ...m-chair. He was glad to feel the cold, and to breathe the unwarmed air. He preferred the Italian way of no fires, no heating. If the day was cold, he ... ...w of flow- ers, charming.—Zinnias, petunias, ranunculus, sunflowers, white stocks—oh, charming. Look at that bit of honeysuckle. You see the berries w...

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...was the task that had to be done. Our guide to these trenches was a short, stocky young man, a cob; with a rifle and a tight belt and projecting skirt... ...ther- bit and with bloodshot eyes. He was, he told me, a miner. I asked my stock question in such cases, whether he would go back to the old work afte... ...s mind: “If A’hm looky.” Followed a little silence. Then I tried my second stock re- mark for such cases. One does not talk to soldiers at the front i... ...vel might be as tedious as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs with what I may perhaps call a 1916 au...

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...business here for the supply of the Penobscot River. We examined some on the stocks. They are light and shapely vessels, calculated for rapid and rock... ...l´ es and smooth, and knew their prices and qualities, and which the hunters preferred. Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy ... ...g in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods, — a stock selected with what pains and care, and brought home in the wagon bo... ...tick; and a pole was suspended over the hearth, close to the ceiling, to dry stockings and clothes on. I noticed that the floor was full of small, ding... ... the latter stream. This lake affords a more direct course to Ktaadn, but we preferred to follow the Penobscot and the Pamadumcook lakes. Fowler was j... ...Penobscot Indian. When, afterward, he had occasion to take off his shoes and stockings, I was struck with the smallness of his feet. He had worked a g... ...amp on the carry. This camp was close and dirty, and had an ill smell, and I preferred to accept the Indians’ offer, if we did not make a camp for our... ...repeated some tradition about the Mohawks eating human flesh, what parts they preferred, etc., and also of a battle with the Mohawks near Chesuncook 8... ... to one of the taverns for the night, though, for my own part, I should have preferred to camp out. About four o’clock the next morning, (July 24th,) ...

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...ty small feet which she was fond of showing, with great gold clocks to her stockings, and white pantofles with red heels; and an odor of musk was shoo... ... with the brocade dress and the white night-rail, and the gold-clocked red stockings, and white red-heeled shoes, sitting up in the bed, and stepping ... ...led young Esmond, by constantly praising his parts and admiring his boyish stock of learning. It may seem ungracious in one who has received a hundred... ...ruffles and a periwig, and have for- sworn swords, lace-coats, and clocked stockings. In the schol- ars’ boyish disputes at the University, where part... ...her, tripping down the stair to greet Esmond. “She hath put on her scarlet stockings and white shoes,” says my lord, still laughing. “Oh, my fine mist... ...th of his sister, by far the greater part of the English people would have preferred, to the having a petty German prince for a sovereign, about whose... ...od came to wait on his mistress during their absence, though he would have preferred to escort Mrs. Lucy, his sweet- heart, on her journey into the co...

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... part of the said railroad line, and the whole or such part of the rolling stock, offices, shops, buildings, and all their appendages and appurtenance... ... and by distin- guished individuals is all that a vain man could wish, the stocks have declined, and troops come forward more slowly than ever. This, ... ...the assessor also with your tes- timony of worthiness, although I know you preferred a differ- ent man. I will examine to-morrow whether I am mistaken... ...h the other does not; and that acting together you could about double your stock of pertinent information. May I not hope that you and he will attempt... ...suppose that this occurred by accident, or in any way other than that they preferred to designate themselves “Democrats” rather than “American citizen... ...ther than “American citizens.” In this time of national peril I would have preferred to meet you upon a level one step higher than any party platform,... ...yet have not more been fur- nished you since then than your entire present stock? I ask the same questions as to your mounted force. Do not misunderst... ...he public interest together. No charges, with a view to a trial, have been preferred against you by any one; nor do I suppose any will be. All there ... ...d appropriate for the use of the United States any horses, mules, and live stock designed for exportation, be so far modified that any arms heretofore...

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...for water for the last hour,” he said. For a moment we were silent, taking stock of each other. I dare say he found me a strange enough figure, naked,... ...remark that even on this earth Nature has never hit upon the wheel, or has preferred other expedients to its development. And not only did the Martian...

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...s, and the tool has been used to study real-world situations as varied as stock-investment analysis to supervisory system control, and child labor t... ...iven to show in the later chapter how Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps will be preferred in some cases. Also, we in this section recall the definitions o... ...will be discussed in the section: Buying by institute investors in the stock market example [50]. →  + Increase of composite stock price, (... ...rease”. The modifier fuzzy sets are “institute in-vestors” and “composite stock price”. By definition, the (FCR–1) is equivalent to the following: ... ... Not buying by institute investors →  + Not increase of composite stock price. (FCR–2) Here “not buying” and “not increase” are the dis-qu... ... holds: Selling by institute investors →  + Decrease of composite stock price. (FCR-3) Here “selling and decrease” are the anti-quantity ... ... Now we shall represent a few examples to show how in this set up NCMs is preferred to FCMs. At the outset before we proceed to give examples we mak... ... 2.6.3: Use of NCM in Robotics While it has been argued that FCMs are preferred for usage in robotics and applications of intimate technologies,...

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...zantium revolted and protested against this opportunistic move. Many said that they preferred the rule of the Turks to being enslaved by the Latin W... ... Afghan independence struggle. Instead of fighting the Soviet occupants, Hekmatyar preferred to fight other Afghans, and to conspire with suspiciou... ...shing a lawless beachhead in Macedonia, went the rumours. The Taliban were known to stock c. 3000 tonnes of raw opium. The Afghanis - Arab fighters ... ...he specialized agencies and funds, are fewer than the civil service of the City of Stockholm or the staff of McDonalds. The core UN budget is one h... ... of its GDP. Prices of everything - from real estate to cars - are rising fast. The stock exchange index has soared by one third. American largesse ... ...q's reconstruction. It should induce other countries of the world to view Iraq as a preferred destination of foreign direct investment and trade. ... ...hroughout the occupied territories. This has been reflected in the shekel's and the stock exchange's precipitous declines, by one fifth each. Profit... ...omy has been partly remonetized and is less insulated than it was in 1996. Even the stock exchange has revived. Whatever the length of the war, its...

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...he Patagonians -- Death of two members of the expedition -- A charge of mutiny preferred -- Trial and execution of Capt. Doughty -- The extraordinary ... ... brave one and was soon increased by the arrival of others and additional live stock, but Thorfinn and Gudrid returned to Greenland in 1010. The most ... ... tobacco rolled into his cheek, his sea slang, his garrulity, his never ending stock of narrative, his love of the marvellous, his contempt for the la... ...tion of which was again divided, so as to form an enclosure or park, which was stocked with deer and other game, and where hawks and gerfalcons were ... ...us customs and beastly practices. While they had an abundance of animals, they preferred human flesh to that of all other meat, and as Marco Polo says... ...ar of public judgment and trial upon several of the old charges which had been preferred, and additional ones that had been framed after his departure... ... ocean no end? Six weeks. The provisions are getting low. The cooks report the stock alarmingly short. Seven weeks. All hands are put on famine ration... ...eaded the perils of the main, others feared the prowling Portuguese fleet, and preferred to take up a residence in the Moluccas rather than risk the p... ...aused to be hoisted up, gave not the least sign of betrayal, declaring that he preferred death to perjuring himself or in any wise compromising his co...

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...case you haven't noticed, our reputation is going straight into the toilet; our stock is dropping like a rock; and the Hanford contract is coming up... ...ting. She might have accepted the criticism in private, but not in front of the stockholders. Pierce had become an ego-maniac, and she was determine... ...efore, when he was a Wall Street Trader hustling junk bonds to naive blue chip stockholders. He had raised Insider Trading to an art form that made... ...ity to tap into other people's greed, he was able to manipulate the compa­ ny's stock by providing Insider information and offering bogus stock-opti... ...ty Companies that specialized in Nuclear Power. Thus, I.E. became the majority stockholder of the power and energy complexes in the world. Pierce a... ...mostly businessmen and lobbyist who pre­ ferred the sedate privacy. The tourists preferred the modern ho­ tels. "You know, Pierce will go after Jones...

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...nevertheless, many settlers made their way in here from the States—men who preferred to live under British rule, and perhaps doubted the stability of ... ...t that offered, not having or being able to obtain the nec- essary rolling stock; and on all sides I heard men discuss- ing whether the line would be ... ...be in an English farmer’s establishment. The pig is a part of the farmer’s stock in trade, and must go the way of all pigs. And so is it with house an... .... In October last the Mississippi was closed, the railways had not rolling stock sufficient 173 Trollope for their work, the crops of the two last ye... ...om Chicago, nor, indeed, on the railway was there a sufficiency of rolling stock or locomotive power to bring it into Chicago. As I said before, the c... ...est Point, which they will not be able to answer so easily as that already preferred. What right can they have to take the very prettiest spot on the ... ...ker a hugger-mugger with his money. He does not hide up his dollars in old stockings and keep rolls of gold in hidden pots. He does not even invest it... ...ould always obey; and as this led to discomfort and an irritated spirit, I preferred nursing the conductor on the hard bar in the rear. And here if I ... ...g to see that, when they could have done all this, they did not do so, but preferred to cling to things English. Their old colonial limits were still ...

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... in the name of the Queen.” Smiling incredulously, the Kid glanced at his well stocked ar senal, and the Englishman, realizing his impotency, turned ... ...e firelight, licking their wounds, voicing their misery to the stars. The whole stock of dried salmon had been devoured, and perhaps five pounds of flour... ...rothers,” the second man spoke up, filling his pipe in a meditative manner. Hay Stockard was at times as thoughtful of speech as he was wanton of actio... ...the head reaches of the Great River, and far away below are the Russians.” Hay Stockard lifted his head with a quick start. This was startling geograp... ...t back to his camp amid the crimson shadows and the singing of the robins. Hay Stockard finished his pipe by the fire, picturing in smoke and coal the u... ...nd monstrous organic things. But he was a trifle ashamed of this genealogy, and preferred not to think of it. Wherefore, probably, he practiced his iro... ...ore, probably, he practiced his iron inhibition and preached it to others, and preferred women of his own type, who could shake free of this bestial a... ...iant to relieve Bun ster. The Yorkshire man had a reputation as a bruiser and preferred fighting to eating. But Bunster wouldn’t fight. He was a regula... ...n people had betrayed him. The shell fire had been too terri ble, and they had preferred the prison of Molokai. Koolau dropped back and unslung one of...

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...be- ing summer, and the house surrounded with tropical flow- ers, the lady preferred it (in spite of its loneliness) to the damp mansion of the offici... ...es and camels, no less than from the prodigious encumbrances of their live stock, was absolutely out of the question: quarter was disdained on the one... ...s; the peach and the nectarine are said to have radiated from this austere stock when cultured, developed, and trans- ferred to all varieties of clima... ...n contemplating a single coupon, no bigger than a visiting card, of such a stock as this; and behold we have to keep on pay- ing away until the total ... ...ght be posted forward on the same prin- ciple. The aggrieved man, however, preferred passing it back, without any discount to the original proprietor.... ...ard. In the heats of summer he went thinly dressed, and invariably in silk stock- ings; yet, as even this dress could not always secure him against pe... ... he never would wear garters; yet, as he found it difficult to keep up his stockings without them, he had in- vented for himself a most elaborate subs...

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...usually aimed at the humans first; if possible. To make that very aiming at humans impossible and minimise the risk of any direct hit, those humans preferred cloudy planets for their bases, kept surface structures to a minimum, spread decoys wide and far, and dug themselves in as deep as only possible. Life in bunkers had its own risk and adverse effects, claustrophobia ...

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... MO THE MO THE MOTHER HIVE THER HIVE THER HIVE THER HIVE THER HIVE I F THE STOCK had not been old and overcrowded, the Wax-moth would never have enter... ... out, and cuddles ‘em in corners.” “I suppose the truth is that we’re over-stocked and too well fed to swarm,” said Melissa. “That is the truth,” said... ...s, halfqueens and lay- ing sisters; and the ever-dwindling band of the old stock worked themselves bald and fray-winged to feed their queer charges. M... ...r them. One albino, for instance, divided the number of pounds of honey in stock by the number of bees in the Hive, and proved that if every bee only ... ...reason told them they ought to slip away and unite with some other healthy stock in the apiary. “What, about seven and three-quarter minutes’ work now... ...L. M. T. Dig. Night work only. Head- quarters London and Cairo. A linguist preferred. BAGMAN Charing Cross Hotel, W. C. (urgent.) ... ...nance, we wake to the day we have earned. It was a coolish morning, but we preferred to breakfast in the south verandah. The forenoon we spent in the ...

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...owsers pock- ets, and revels in an elysium of his own. I was told that the stockholders in these boats were in a bad way at the present time. There we... ...is very lovely and very fertile. Be- tween Lexington and Frankfort a large stock farm, ex- tending over three thousand acres, is kept by a gentleman w... ...l other respects is unfinished. I was told that the shares of the original stockholders were now worth nothing. A shareholder, who so told me, seemed ... ...n pretty rough with him. The rebels had come upon his land. House, fences, stock, and crop were all gone. His homestead had been made a ruin, and his ... ...ir boots, the soldiers snored, those who were wet took off their shoes and stock- ings, hanging them to dry round the stove, and the West- ern farmers... ...happy at Baltimore. Putting aside Boston—which must, I think, be generally preferred by Englishmen to any other city in the States— I should choose Ba... ...rhaps to state that General Fremont has published an answer to the charges preferred against him. That answer refers chiefly to matters of military ca... ... equals our ordinary five shilling volume. Nevertheless, English books are preferred, almost as strongly as are French bonnets. Of books absolutely pr...

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...s were the short, also puffed breeches meeting his long white knitted silk stockings some way above the knee; large scarlet rosettes were in his white... ...ing to leave his wife and son, not indeed among such strict Puritans as he preferred, but at least where the pure faith could be openly avowed without... ...not help wondering whether the lady who looked at him so admiringly really preferred such a mean-looking little fop as Narcisse, whether she were afra... ...like it, they must be the tyrants she had always heard of. ‘To be a gazing-stock—’ began Berenger. ‘Hush! Monsieur, I will hear no more, or I shall ta... ...tators. As these last were to wear suits of knightly armour, Berenger much preferred making one of them in spite of their doom. The masque was given a... ... known by our God in order to warm man from sin into a mere antic laughing-stock. Laughter should be moved by what is fair and laughter-worthy—even li... ...d herself as his wife, and the very thought that she had been deliberately preferred and had enjoyed her triumph hardened Diane’s heart against her. N... ...the living were more perilous to her than the dead, yet feeling infinitely preferred them! It might be Nanon Rotrou after all; then how foolish to be ... ...weakness before his enemy, and altogether disclaimed illness, refusing the stock of cooling drinks, cordials, and febrifuges, which the Chevalier said...

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...tice, and goodness. When you successfully meet these needs you are ‗self actualizing‘ or realizing your highest self. In his later work Maslow prefer... ...If we daydream too much or eat compulsively it is cause for concern. If we cannot take the blame for our own failures it might be time to take stock ... ... basic assumptions I had grown up with. In looking deeper I found that my thinking led me in a different direction than my mother would have prefer...

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...ossible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred, and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discove... ...2nd Essay – Locke glected, and consequently waste land, has increased the stock of corn, which they wanted. But be this as it will, which I lay no st... ...their possessions. But as families increased and industry en larged their stocks, their possessions enlarged with the need of them; but yet it was co... ...h afterwards, in some parts of the world, where the increase of people and stock, with the use of money, had made land scarce, and so of some value, t... ...od for his eating a whole year, he did no injury; he wasted not the common stock; destroyed no part of the portion of goods that belonged to others, s... ...r an hundred thousand acres of excel lent land, ready cultivated and well stocked, too, with cattle, in the middle of the inland parts of America, wh...

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...rammelled by unearthly powers: some god Or demon dashed his foot against the stock Of a deep rooted tamarisk. Sorely wrenched Was his left ankle: rou... ...t Of my strong spear, born on steep Pelion’s crest, Who hath left his father stock and forest there.” He spake; and from the chariot sprang to earth Q... ...te lovely tressed. From him too is it meet we hold our hands Because he hath preferred his father and son To gold, to all things that might profit a m... ... to lift the sword against her neck, Seeing her splendour of beauty. Like a stock Of dead wood in a mountain forest, which Quintus Smyrnaeus The F...

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...n of the crew, and those who are in his favor can get their wet mittens and stockings dried, or light their pipes at the galley on the night watch. T... ...ut the vessel, rigging, or anything else, but went round looking at the live stock, and leaned over the pig sty, and said he - 16 - Two Years Before t... ... that there were none upon the island, and he was very desirous of having it stocked. A steady, though light south west erly wind carried us wel... ...ally of velvet, velveteen, or broadcloth; or else short breeches and white stockings. They wear the deer skin shoe, which is of a dark brown color, ... ...ore the Mast Richard Henry Dana males; and a coarse gown, without shoes or stockings, for the females. In Monterey there are a number of Englis... ...he woods, and upon the water. I really felt a strong affection for him, and preferred him to any of my own countrymen there; and I believe there was...

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...f the color of cuisse de nymphe effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. The vicomte told his tale very neatly. It was an anec- dote, the... ...eroom. An old man, a servant of the princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stock- 44 War & Peace ing. Pierre had never been in this part of the house... ...ut his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether comfortably. “Wel... ...at the artillery officer Tushin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to the other, glanced inquir- ingly with his large, intelli... ...ctogenarians were reviewed, and of Prozorovski and Kamenski the latter was preferred. The general comes to us, Suvorov- like, in a kibitka, and is rec... ...at soldiers suffering from fever, or the swelling that came from bad food, preferred to remain on duty, and hardly able to drag their legs went to the... ...he Moscow ladies, especially by the fact that he slighted them and plainly preferred the gypsy girls and French actresses—with the chief of whom, Made... ...emanded Na- poleon, shrugging his shoulders in perplexity. “But no, he has preferred to surround himself with my enemies, and with whom? With Steins, ... ... were gathered, by the Emperor’s wish, not a military council (the Emperor preferred indefinite- ness), but certain persons whose opinions he wished t...

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...ife and Letters spiritual. Thus, any man with enough money to take a shop, stock his shelves, and pay for advertisements shall be able to evoke the pu... ...ad to follow their lead in the destruction of a State which she would have preferred to preserve as a possible ally against Prussian and Russian ambi-...

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...he tribals the instructions authorized by the President: the United States preferred that Bin Ladin and his lieutenants be captured, but if a successf... ...y to join al Qaeda and move his family to Afghanistan. 13 KSM declined. He preferred to remain independent and retain the option of working with other... ...MELAND 171 Final 5-7.5pp 7/17/04 11:46 AM Page 171 manipulation of the stock market based on its advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. Exhaustive... ... identify additional worthwhile targets, such as other al Qaeda leaders or stocks of chemical or bio- logical weapons. 117 Clarke was not alone in his... ...cceed.Although he developed a close relationship with his housemate, Hazmi preferred not to use the house telephone, continuing the practice he and Mi... ... al Faruq camp near Kandahar.This particular camp appears to have been the preferred location for vetting and training the potential muscle hijackers... ... White House, and the Capitol. According to Binalshibh, Bin Ladin said he preferred the White House over the Capitol, asking Binalshibh to confirm th... ...pposed them; and because some proposals lacked merit.We have tried to take stock of these experiences, and borrow from strong elements in many of the ... ...ly rest on reports of unusual pre-9/11 trading activity in companies whose stock plummeted after the attacks. Some unusual trading did in fact occur, ...

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...e into which she was going: which, had she done, she would prob- ably have preferred remaining in the coach, dinnerless and ill. Indeed, the inn into ... ... right into my eye (t’other one was patched, you know), and after standing stock-still with his mouth open, gave a step back, and then a step forward,... ...and, and a hundred thousand pounds in the Bank of England. Has no shirt or stockings, and the coat he wears is marked “S.S.” In his boots is written “... ...ny blushes, tied a fine blue riband round his neck; and, in a pair of silk stockings, with gold buckles to his shoes, Master Billings looked a very pr... ...th stars and or- ders, a neat modest wig and bag, and peach-coloured silk- stockings with silver clasps. The lady in the mask gave a start as his Exce... ...ck to London. “Get me a chair, Joseph,” said his Reverence, who infinitely preferred a seat gratis in the coach. “That fool,” muttered he, “will not m...

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...ces and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when w...

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...orce to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent suc... ...ross the mind of the young student, as he posted up the Bridges with trim, stockinged legs, in that city of cocked hats and good Scotch still unadulte... ...ats; rowed deep into Fiddler’s Hole, sounding as we went; and having taken stock of all possible accommoda- 55 Memories and Portraits tion, pitched o... ...istant, of which he never wearied. He was a strong Conservative, or, as he preferred to call himself, a Tory; ex- cept in so far as his views were mod... ...s either a theory about it ready-made, or will have one in- stantly on the stocks, and proceed to lay its timbers and launch it in your presence. “Let... ...ve known one old gentleman, whom I may name, for he in now gathered to his stock – Robert Hunter, Sheriff of Dumbarton, and author of an excellent law... ...- eral gentlemen in three-cocked hats were playing bowls. A friend of mine preferred the Malabar coast in a storm, with a ship beating to windward, an...

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...from his pity was now publicly thrown back in his teeth. The Armour family preferred disgrace to his connection. Since the prom- ise, besides, he had ... ... turn, invited him to tea; but the poet, in his character of the Old Hawk, preferred a tete-a-tete, ex- cused himself at the last moment, and offered ... ...aturalist, he used neither trap nor gun. When asked at dinner what dish he preferred, he answered, `the nearest.’” So many negative superiorities begi... ...ter of his times and seasons, to indulge the mind rather than the body; he preferred long rambles to rich dinners, his own reflections to the consider... ...nd hoard against the day of sickness, was not a favourite with Thoreau. He preferred that other, whose name is so much misappropriated: Faith. When he... ... astonish no one that Yoshida was regarded by his schol- ars as a laughing-stock. The schoolboy has a keen sense of humour. Heroes he learns to unders... ...nd occasionally joining together for some serious operation just as modern stockjobbers form a syndicate for an important loan. Nor were they at all p... ...r is the time for verses! Such a happy revolution would turn the head of a stocking-weaver, and set him jingling rhymes. And so – after a voyage to Pa... ... poor madman who wore the crown of France. Born (May 1391) of such a noble stock, Charles was to know from the first all favours of nature and art. Hi...