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...ccessive Vertical Oligopolies", that authors studied: "An oligopoly model with two brands. Each downstream firm chooses one brand to sell on a fina... ...t for the other brand at an extra cost. (They concluded that) when more downstream brands choose one brand, more upstream firms will specialize in ... ...conomic efficiency." Differential pricing is also the outcome of globalization. As brands become ubiquitous and as the information superhighway ren... ... the outcomes of kinship, ethnic origin, personal standing and goodwill, corporate brands and other data generated by individuals, households, and ... ...ators, entrepreneurs, non- conformism and conflict. They spew out patents, designs, brands, copyrighted material and other forms of packaged human c... ...efits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK? - S Girma, D Greenaway, K Wakelin - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001 Why Investment Ma...

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...ction but relies heavily on the trademarks accorded to favored designers and brands. There are “knockoffs” of Armani or Balenciaga, but the wealthy st... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c... ...The main thrust of the argument here is still firmly within the Jeffersonian, Scottish Enlightenment tradition. Jefferson does not wish to give the pat... ...ere is very good reason to believe that this attitude was dominant among the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers whose writings were so influential to the ...

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...simply too much of a risk to take. But people are mindlessly loyal to their brands and tastes… As Coca Cola found out when they tried to change t... ...formula for their product: customers simply stopped buying it and bought other brands. Until they brought the same old beverage back and renamed it:... ...ing to overpower all of the other capitalistic superpowers with an even worse brands of military dictatorship than the West supported… The result is... ... powerful, more ferocious etc. Today people wear t-shirts advertising company brands for free. Try finding a t-shirt without a consumer brand, or n... ...ent in such huge numbers: that they drowned the Indians out. The new American brands of racism and hate were much more subtle and abstract than the ... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...

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...of billion Muslims and a couple billion Christians believing in their own brands of Mid-Eastern monotheism. Then we have Judaism, Sikhism, Bahai, Sh... ...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp...

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...iam Guerenti, who hath commented Aristotele: George Buchanan, that famous Scottish Poet, and Marke-Antonie Muret, whom (while he lived) both FranceI... ...ot young men may go and see, Not without sport and mery glee, Their fire-brands turn'd to ashes be. They have both strength and reason on their side... ...le, when or how we shall make an end. I was not long since reading of two Scottish bookes striving upon this subject. The popular makes the King to ...

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...worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of the poem) has b... ...ing with affright, Recalled the vision of the night. The hearth’s decaying brands were red And deep and dusky lustre shed, Half showing, half conceali... ...s beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spoke a Scottish word, 29 Sir Walter Scott And ne’er the name of Douglas heard An ... ...clans did ride, Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his ... ... rival glared, With foot advanced and blade half bared. XXXV . Ere yet the brands aloft were flung, Margaret on Roderick’s mantle hung, And Malcolm he... ...rd the vassals took, With forward step and fiery look, On high their naked brands they shook, Their clattering targets wildly strook; And first in ... ... thrice, that lady bold; He rose beneath her hand The fairest knight on Scottish mould, Her brother, Ethert Brand! 69 Sir Walter Scott Merry it... ...d step I knew; Like form in Scotland is not seen, T reads not such step on Scottish green. ’Tis James of Douglas, by Saint Serle! The uncle of the ban... ...e, chilled with watching, spread their hands O’er the huge chimney’s dying brands, While round them, or beside them flung, At every step their harness...

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...hold me here a messenger, Your tender greetings prompt to bear; For to the Scottish court addressed, I journey at our King’s behest, And pray you, of ... ... Norham can find you guides enow; For here be some have pricked as far, On Scottish ground, as to Dunbar; Have drunk the monks of St. Bothan’s ale, An... ...ut ill may pursuivant, The only men that safe can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side: And though a bishop built this fort, Few holy brethren here ... ... thick at Christmas-tide, And we can neither hunt, nor ride A foray on the Scottish side. The vowed revenge of Bughtrig rude, May end in worse than lo... ...; The Palmer took on him the task, So he would march with morning tide, To Scottish court to be his guide. “But I have solemn vows to pay, And may not... ...n the morning air, The wreaths of failing smoke declare, To embers now the brands decayed, Where the night-watch their fires had made. They saw, slow ...

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...e only thing we could save from a wreck off the Spurn,” said her husband. “Scottish as I take it. The rogues seem to have taken to their boats, leavin... ...owever, it enabled him to aver that the letter—if such it were—was neither Scottish, French, Spanish, nor High or Low Dutch. He looked at it in all di... ... I would not desire to be a shipwrecked man in these parts, and if I had a Scottish or a French tongue in my head so much the worse for me.” “Ah, Mast... ...hy mother, little Numpy, that an English sailor is worth a dozen French or Scottish lubbers.” “Sir,” said Master Heatherthwayte, “the pious trust of t... ...ay be harbouring the Prince of Scotland himself, when it is only some poor Scottish archer’s babe.” “You would not have me part with the poor little o... ... a good hour or two longer, and it behoves me to ken how she cam by yonder brands.” “She had them when she came to us,” said Susan. “Ye’ll no persuade... ...- band, all will soon out—Mistress Kennedy and Master Gorion have seen the brands on the child’s shoulders. It is my belief that she of the ‘beads and... ... heard the answer from Jean’s bed, “Hout no, I wad she knew nought of thae brands. How should she?” “Nay,” said Cicely, “she—no, it was Tibbott the hu...

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... and sombre library, with no other light than was afforded by the decaying brands on its ponderous and ample hearth, he would exercise for hours that ... ...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave... ...been built at a period when castles were no longer necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of designing a domestic re... ...ovecot, or Columbarium, as the owner called it, was no small resource to a Scottish laird of that period, whose scanty rents were eked out by the cont... ... round him; but all was still solitary. If it had not been for the decayed brands of the fire, now sunk into grey ashes, and the remnants of the festi... ...—”Better an old woman with a purse in her hand, than three men with belted brands?”’ Then, turning to the company, he proposed the ‘Health of Captain ... ...g. The ruthless proscription of party seems to degrade the victims whom it brands, however unjustly. But let us hope that a brighter day is approachin...

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...ropy, by increasing his means of giving terror or pain. But even in a rude Scottish glen thirty years back, the fear of sorcery was very much out of d... ... formed the chief part of their amusement within doors. The passing of the Scottish act of security had given the alarm of England, as it seemed to po... ...the three days’ amusement of my kindred tribe, at the very moment when the brands were lighted, the pincers heated, the cauldrons boiling, the knives ...

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... legs, and, ascending above the calf, left the knees bare, like those of a Scottish Highlander. T o make the jacket sit yet more close to the body, it... ...ng.” So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board ... ...ell whether the Saxon war-cry was not heard as far within the ranks of the Scottish host as the cri de guerre of the boldest Norman baron. To the memo... ...ce of Godfrey’s quali- ties should not be bound by the ordinary rules. The Scottish Nisbet, and the same Ferne, insist that the chiefs of the Cru- sad... ...ecclesiastics, but in lay impropriators of the church revenues, or, as the Scottish law- yers called them, titulars of the temporalities of the benefi... ...uld be devised to give an appearance of novelty to subsequent productions. Scottish manners, Scottish dialect, and Scottish characters of note, being ...

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... is one. Hynde Etin, and still more decisively Red Etin of Ireland, in the Scottish Ballads, these are both derived from Norseland; Etin is evi- dentl... ...gether could not be? High Duchesses, and ostlers of inns, gather round the Scottish rustic, Burns;—a strange feeling dwelling in each that they never ... ...o longer sincere men. I do not wonder that the earnest man denounces this, brands it, prosecutes it with inextinguishable aversion. He and it, all goo... ..., with universal three- times-three! It seems to me hard measure that this Scottish man, now after three hundred years, should have to plead like a cu... ...soul of all the British lands came among us in the shape of a hard- handed Scottish Peasant. 160 Thomas Carlyle His Father, a poor toiling man, tried...

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...s marked for such a creature. There were some whom it was good to pity and well (though very likely useless) to pray for; they were named reprobates, ... ...r of ancestry on the character is not limited to the inheritance of cells. If I buy ancestors by the gross from the benevolence of Lyon King of Arms, ...

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...captivity had been the worst of all—almost every noble was a robber chief; Scottish Borderer preyed upon English Borderer, Highlander upon Lowlander, ... ...they were such ponderous articles that they sometimes served as weapons. A Scottish virago has been know to dash out the brains of a wounded enemy wit... ... from officers of the regi- ment distinctly stated that it was the burning brands, and that the scene was a reserve magazine—not, as in the brief ment...

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...vingly as a mother might; and so, with a parting caress, left him and sat down by the fire, and began to poke the brands about in an ab- sent and aiml... ...r steps. Within the seat of the throne is enclosed a rough flat rock—the stone of Scone—which many generations of Scottish kings sat on to be crowned,...

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... interest. I felt little of that sense of freedom and exhilaration which a Scottish heath in spires, or even our English downs awaken. It was lonely ... ...shed flesh, and missing teeth, and lacerated backs, and bites of dogs, and brands of red hot irons innumerable: but as my readers will be sufficiently...

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...surrendered to the parlia- mentary troops, whilst Oxford and Newark still held out for him in the hopes of coming to some arrangement. At one of the e... ...romwell has arrived this night at Newcastle.” “Ah!” exclaimed the king, “to fight?” “No, sire, but to buy your majesty.” “What did you say?” “I said, ... ...all out your regiment,” said he; “I can foresee that we shall have need of it directly.” Winter turned his horse and the two friends rode on. It had t... ...d like the crater of a volcano. A burst of flame rose toward the skies with an explosion like that of a hundred cannon; the air burned, ignited by fla...

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...very death; when you spoke of a hundred and twenty thousand men across the Scottish border who would take their own redress at any time, if it were no... ...d by the prison wall, exerted all their skill and force to cast these fire brands on the roof, or down into the yards within. In many instances their ... ...sing to and fro upon the roof of the prison. Soon it reddened, and lighted brands came whirling down, spattering the ground with fire, and burning sul... ...nt to break down 523 Charles Dickens the doors and windows, some bringing brands from the nearest fire, some with lifted faces following their course...

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...bloody hands _2495 I felt, and saw on high the glare of falling brands, 19. 19. 19. 19. 19. When on my foes a sudden terror came, And they ... ...d—for I, not coy, Yield love for love, frank, warm, and true; And Burns, a Scottish peasant boy— _325 His errors prov...

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...wever, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be f...

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...candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a histori... ...et let him take care of me. I fly him now, as heretofore; but if, like the Scottish wild cattle, I am vexed by frequent pursuit, I may turn on him in ... ...urgation ’— ‘A draught of water from the valley of Baca’— ‘Foxes and fire- brands’—what gear call you this, maiden?” “Nay, madam,” said Janet, “it was...

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...y in that pretty little gown of mous- seline-de-laine of the color of some Scottish tartan! That day I said to myself: ‘Why is that woman so often at ... ...he police! Police! you are afraid to encounter the terrible prejudice that brands it on the brow.” “Certainly,” said la Peyrade, “it is a necessary in...

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...resent the absent godfather. After that, he must go; he had written to his Scottish cousins to offer a visit, and he had a promise that he should soon... ... “Dr. May!” cried the indignant voice of Hector Ernescliffe, as his honest Scottish face flushed like a turkey cock, “I as- sure you that Alan rides l... ...ing mamma here now and then for a treat, because it put her in mind of her Scottish hills. Well, your’s are the golden hills of heaven, now, my Maggie... ...the ground—a cloud of smoke, black figures were flitting round it, pushing brands into red places, and feeding the bonfire. “What have you been doing?... ...Flora. He could not feel that he fathomed her! She reminded him of his old Scottish father-in-law, Professor Mackenzie, whom he had never un- derstood... ...ou know him?” said Meta. “No; but he is a great friend of Norman’ s, and a Scottish cousin— Norman Ogilvie. Norman has his name from the Ogilvies.” “O...

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... They passed the hall, that echoes still, Pass as lightly as you will! The brands were flat, the brands were dying, Amid their own white ashes lyin... ...cian, blind and grey, (Whom stretching from my nurse’s arms I kissed,) His Scottish tunes and warlike marches play, By moonshine, on the balmy summ...

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...battle eke with many a lowly word, Ralph, Rosimond, and Eberard request, A Scottish, an Irish, and an English lord, Whose lands the seas divide far fr... ...cor and decreased the ire, Although Alecto left him to infest With the hot brands of her infernal fire, Round his armed head his trenchant blade he bl... ...y sisters come with fire in hands, Shaking their snaky locks and sparkling brands: LXVII But noble Tancred, who this while applied Grave exhortations ... ... But of quick love the fortress and the hold, Still in my heart thy wonted brands I have More bitter far, alas! but not more cold; Receive these sighs...

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...battle eke with many a lowly word, Ralph, Rosimond, and Eberard request, A Scottish, an Irish, and an English lord, Whose lands the seas divide far fr... ...cor and decreased the ire, Although Alecto left him to infest With the hot brands of her infernal fire, Round his armed head his trenchant blade he bl... ...y sisters come with fire in hands, Shaking their snaky locks and sparkling brands: LXVII But noble Tancred, who this while applied Grave exhortations ... ... But of quick love the fortress and the hold, Still in my heart thy wonted brands I have More bitter far, alas! but not more cold; Receive these sighs...

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...itch, Lady Cowry , kindled at her. Again there were flights of the burning brands over London. The very odd marriage; the no-marriage; the two-ends-of... ... said I would board her and have a fly with half a dozen fellows round the Scottish isles. We’re never free to do as we like.’ ‘Legs are the only thin...

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...ral!’ As good had been the natural Presbyterian Kirk-bell, and six feet of Scottish earth, among the dust of thy loved ones.—Such world lay be- yond t... ...r the chained Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pull... ...rvest. By the hundred and the thou- sand, men’s lives are cropt; cast like brands into the burning. Marseilles is taken, and put under martial law: lo...