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...he most important is to carry out the mission Operation Get Universe at all costs. The World Finance Bank was directed to give heavy loans on easy terms and conditions to Islamic countries in the form of financial help to clench these countries into the ironic hands of World Bank so that they are buried under debts. In this way these countries would become easily blac...

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...Set in Victorian times, the novel concerns business man Paul Bultitude and his son Dick. Dick is about to leave home for a boarding school which is ruled by the cane wielding headmaster Dr. Grimstone. Bultitude, seeing his son's fear of going to the school, foolishly ...

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... plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least inexperienced, American abroad, seeking to come to terms with the social customs and conventions of an old European aristocracy (think of Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove and others). The aptly named Christopher Newman, having made a small fortune from ...

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...ere such a one was to be met with, and having once made up his mind, the whole business was soon completed. The new mare proved a treasure; with a ver... ...at present. Edmund was the only one of the family who could see a fault in the business; but no representation of his aunt’s could induce him to find M... ... state; but, however, speak ing from my own observation, it is a mano euvring business. I know so many who have married in the full expectation and c... ...being sick or run away, and the mother in and out every moment with letters of business; and I could hardly get a word or a look from the young lady —... ...“Yes, I cannot agree with you there. It is certainly the modestest part of the business. It is much worse to have girls not out, give themselves the s... ...f. As he has done so well by Smith, I think I had better have him at once. His terms are five guineas a day.” “Well, and if they were ten,” cried Mrs. ... ...olerably resigned to her having the use of what nobody else wanted, though the terms in which she sometimes spoke of the indulgence, seemed to imply t... ...le only of angry consolations. The sister with whom she was used to be on easy terms, was now become her greatest enemy; they were alienated from each... ...tenant at half a word. I could name three people now, who would give me my own terms and thank me.” “Ha!” cried Mary, “settle in Northamptonshire! Tha...

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...ught my book, which only coast about a million dollars in college freshman terms. Classes started. All the teachers handed out syllabi that said all t... ...plete thought or idea? Almost no one agrees on the defini tions for these terms. Perhaps a better definition can be found in a college dictionary, wh... ...ng is an art, not an exact science. Most grammar checkers are designed for business writing, rather than essay writing, and spell checkers often won’t... ... styles of sentence writing that are expected of the author. By and large, business writing requires short, twelve word sentences, while philosophical... ...e on Colons Use a colon with the salutation of a formal letter, especially business letters. Example: Dear Dr. Price: Use a colon in citations. Examp...

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...eclared that we regarded your opponents there are as belligerents on equal terms with yourselves?” I was forced to say that, as far as I could see, th... ...-beloved friends of my family. My wife and I have lived with Mrs. Jones on terms of intimacy which have been quite endearing. Jones has had the run of... ... deep a hatred, and receive them again into your arms as brothers on equal terms? Is it in accordance with experience that a conquered people should b... ...- ter for ladies, and who had come to Newport for the sea- son on the same business. He complained to me with much bitterness of the saddle-horses whi... ...le-horses which came in his way—of course thinking that it was the special business of a country to produce saddle-horses, as I think it the special b... ...En- glish feelings. All these, except the streets devoted exclu- sively to business, are shaded on both sides by trees, gen- erally, if I remember rig... ... that the communal authori- ties do carry on so large a part of the public business, and that they do it generally so well and at so cheap a rate. I h... ...ish House of Commons. Montreal is an exceedingly good commercial town, and business there is brisk. It has now 85,000 inhabitants. Having said that of... ...e who earn their bread by the labor of their hands. But it is hard to find terms which will be understood; and that term, whether it give offense or n...

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...ght has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by ... ... mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine! No doubt, many of my towns 10 Walden ... ...her Jonas or Solomon worked in a particular field to day; that was none of my business. I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the net... ...n thus for a long time, I may say it without boasting, faithfully minding my business, till it became more and more evident that my townsmen would not... ...e magic wealth and standing followed, he had said to himself; I will go into business; I will weave baskets; it is a thing which I can do. Thinking th... ...Would the savage have been wise to exchange his wigwam for a palace on these terms? It may be guessed that I reduce almost the whole advantage of hold... ...th and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuin... ...tseu caused the messenger to be seated near him, and questioned him in these terms: What is your master doing? The messenger answered with respect: My...

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...ry important topic to an audience of perfect strangers, while dressed in a business suit. At one time, students might have imagined their public leade... ... colloquial and inappropriate for most college level writing. Scatological terms, used mostly to punctuate spoken language in casual situations, words... ... quality of the writing situation. Generally, students are aware that such terms are inappropriate, and they usually succeed in avoiding them; however... ...ate, and they usually succeed in avoiding them; however, a number of other terms, have come into common use in the vernacular and students should take...

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...all the same. Carey did not fulfil her intentions of going into matters of business with her brother-in-law that day, for little Armine, al- ways deli... ...vidual prop- erty in the purchase of the house in which they lived. By the terms of Joseph’s will, everything was left to Caroline unre- servedly, sav... ...d off to her own room. Somehow Carey and Janet felt more on their ordinary terms than they had done all these sad days, in their consternation and a c... ...h as well as other people were not so conclusive but that Jock made it his business to do his utmost to pro- duce a laugh, in which he was apt to be s... ... or Nita, wore a crop, short petticoats, and was odd. She treated Janet on terms of equal friendship, and was thus a much more charming companion than... ...ly books, and asked no ques- tions, until the winding up of the executor’s business; and the quarterly settlement of accounts made startling revela- t... ...er three pupils, stipulating that no oth- ers should be admitted, that the terms should be kept secret, that the hours should be regular, and above al... ...ty-headed dolls are all the go,” said Bobus. “Never mind, Jessie, a girl’s business is to be pretty and good- humoured, not to stuff herself with Lati... ...erica, and, married her to a man of Spanish blood, con- nected with him in business. The only one of her children who survived childhood was educated ...

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...r half breed flushed angrily, as he drew himself up and promised in good, round terms that he would travel his leader off his legs, and would then be d... ...y. Two or three even decided to return to their homes by that route when their terms of service had expired, and they began to lay plans forthwith, lo... ...One’s sack. Then the chief of the dog drivers joined the conclave, and certain business was transacted with him. The next day the gang went on up rive... ... his blood ran in her veins. Obedience, on the part of El Soo, was a matter of terms and arrangement. She had a passion for equity, and perhaps it was... ...rd. “But manner of life is neither here nor there,” he went on. “We have other business, Porportuk, you and I, to night. Debts are mis chances, and I... ...frank amazement. “I know naught of the next world,” Porportuk explained. “I do business in this world.” Klakee Nah’s face cleared. “This comes of slee... ...nd glanced down the table. “Then it would seem that you, Porportuk, are a poor business man,” Klakee Nah said slyly. And boldly Porportuk made answer,... ...n gold at seventeen dollars for each ounce,” Porportuk replied. “And this is a business transac The Wit of Porportuk 219 tion.” El Soo laughed. “It ... ...ting death with dignity. However, the concep tion did not come to him in such terms. His idea of it was that he had been making a fool of himself, ru...

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...a retired horse dealer who had taken to victualling in order to build up a business for his son, was a cheery soul whose loud voiced friendliness att... ...ity. In the few days of their acquaintance Arthur and Susie had arrived at terms of pleasant familiarity. Susie, from her superior standpoint of an un... ... that had been with difficulty suppressed. No one quite understood on what terms he was with his wife, and it was vaguely asserted that he was at time... ...ly unabashed. ‘My time is very short,’ said Arthur. ‘Then I will get to my business without delay. I thought it might interest you to know that I prop... ... At last he could stand it no more. He told a brother surgeon that private business forced him to leave London, and put the work into his hands. With ... ... worthy friend, it never occurred to me that my wife’s health could be any business of yours.’ A faint smile flickered once more on Haddo’s lips, but ...

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... month bring home your bride, but choose the omens which are best for this business. (ll. 802-804) Avoid fifth days: they are unkindly and ter- rible.... ...s. And she is good to stand by horsemen, whom she will: and to those whose business is in the grey discomfortable sea, and who pray to Hecate and the ... ... reward to tell no one about them. Hermes promised to give it him on these terms, and Battus swore to say nothing to anyone about the cattle. But when...

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...s control of the situation, demanding that Macbeth “put/This night’s great business into my dispatch” (1.6. 79-80). This type of behavior from a woman... ...this relation will reverse. Macbeth and his wife clearly exchange roles in terms of the amount of ambition they display. Al- though both characters bl... ...of Banquo: “Not i’ th’ worst rank of man- hood, say’t,/And I will put that business in your bosoms” (3.1. 115-117). Whereas earlier Macbeth was reluct... ... to take immediate action. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth also exchange roles in terms of their expression of guilt. Initially, Lady Macbeth is completely u... ...st chuck’ (III. ii. 45). To evaluate the character of Lady Macbeth both in terms of her expressed intention before the murder of Duncan without regard... ...is Delaware County – English 15 Wings CALVIN COOLIDGE once said, The chief business of the American people is business. This statement is as true toda... ...n Coolidge said it because America is largely defined by the nature of the businesses that drive its economy. One of the major economy driving busi- n... ...ol of what America is all about. Diversity, efficiency, and creativity are terms used to describe America, but now they are being used by the Boeing C... ... conviction. In order to validate one’s convictions (assertions in writing terms) one needs to pro- vide evidence in a highly logical fashion. This in...

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...the needs of living organisms. We have been speaking of life in its lowest terms—as a physical thing. But we use the word Life” to denote the whole ra... ... urgent to leave these consequences wholly out of account. Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot he... ...he moves he stirs them and reciprocally. We might as well try to imagine a business man doing business, buying and selling, all by himself, as to conc... ... as to conceive it possible to define the activi- ties of an individual in terms of his isolated actions. The manufacturer moreover is as truly social... ...tal disposition. There would be no seeing the trees because of the forest. Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor... ...ning insight into what is more complicated. In the second place, it is the business of the school environment to eliminate, so far as possible, the un... ...s a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another. Passing beyond these more inti- mate... ... Mind as a concrete thing is pre- cisely the power to understand things in terms of the use made of them; a socialized mind is the power to under- sta... ...e use made of them; a socialized mind is the power to under- stand them in terms of the use to which they are turned in joint or shared situations. An...

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...Sibylline prices for 9 George Meredith want of forethought. Mr. Parnell’s terms are embodied in Mr. Gladstone’s Bill, to which he and his band have s... ...pplausive audience when he cites the total failure of En- gland to do that business of government, as at least a logical reason for the claim. England... ...epted the Bill of the defeated Minister as final. Its provisions are their terms of peace. They offer in return for that boon to take the bur- den we ... ...ns, that they intended to adopt a more active system of warfare. It is the business of a commander to see that after a victory the fruit of it should ... ...headquarters is too important an incident to be overlooked by people whose business is that of watching the course of events in this country. And it s... ...ave been much better for them, since Archduke Albert spoke in eulo- gistic terms of the king, of his sons, and of his soldiers, while relating the act... ...lliance with Prussia, or to the fidelity of the latter in carrying out the terms of it. I do not know whether this gentleman intended his anecdote to ... ... Italian government in support of the alliance, by making her own separate terms with Austria and leaving Italy subsequently exposed to the vengeance ... ...- sionally encountered in crossing in a diligence from Naples to Foggia on business; and then, speaking of the audacity of brigands in general, he tol...

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...ed, what of many of the profiteers and captains of industry who manipulate business and property for purely selfish ends? What of many of our great fi... ...ll make him atone, or at least suffer sufficiently for the offence. If the terms are not long enough, they can be made longer. The idea that punishmen... ...fidence game contends with great assurance that his methods are like other business methods; that all men are using every means to get the largest ret... ...e soon comes to feel that the police are his natural enemies and his chief business is to keep from get- ting caught. Inevitably he is brought into th... ...From this start comes the profes- sional criminal so-called. He may make a business of pick- ing pockets. If this comes to be his trade it is very har... ... is not attractive to anyone. The conventional man who devotes his life to business or to a profession always has before him the prizes of success—to ... ... the right and avoid the wrong. Of course, legal definitions of scientific terms, processes, or things, do not ordinarily show the high- est wisdom. I... ...sideration from the state. Pen- alties have likewise grown less severe and terms have been shortened, but this course has not been regular or constant... ...e commission of the act. Many insane are put to death or sentenced to long terms of punishments. Jails and other penal institutions are constantly sor...

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... a very humble artist; but not even the terror of eternal fire can teach a business man to 6 Robert Louis Stevenson bend his imagination to such athl... ..., in an age when the spirit of honesty is so sparingly cultivated that all business is conducted upon lies and so-called customs of the trade, that no... ...ce. Even before the lowest of all tribunals,– before a court of law, whose business it is, not to keep men right, or within a thousand miles of right,... ...prospects of mankind as a race turn upon material conditions. The physical business of each man’s body is transacted for him; like a sybarite, he has ... ...redible and most bewildering fact that a man, through life, is on variable terms with himself; he is aware of tiffs and reconciliations; the intimacy ... ...lly and freely entitled to his earn- ings as a sculptor, although the true business of each was not 35 Lay Morals only something different, but somet... ...of righteousness. All that can be done is to present the problem in proper terms, and leave it to the soul of the individual. Now, the problem to the ... ...to hear. He appears, notwithstanding all this, to have been on pretty good terms with his cruel ‘phanaticks,’ as the following extract sufficiently pr... ...with all objectionable matter omitted. This, with pleasing euphe- mism, he terms in a later advertisement, ‘a new and im- proved edition.’ This was th...

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...s and propositions, and are not im posed on by vague, loose, or ambiguous terms. The boasted influence of mathematical studies is nothing to it; for ... ...ties is constrained either to express his meaning to himself in defi nite terms, or to confess that he does not know what he is talking about; the pe... ...nstances; the siege in form which is laid to the meaning of large abstract terms, by fixing upon some still larger class name which includes that and ... ...e the improvement of India, and teach Indian officials to understand their business. If a selection of them were pub lished, they would, I am convinc... ...ections, which enable them to accept a theory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logical conse quences of the theo... ...ect of being rich by inheritance, he had, though ac tively engaged in the business of banking, devoted a great portion of time to philosophic studies... ...on from my immediate superiors, but I soon became well acquainted with the business, and by my father’s in 48 Autobiography structions and the gener... ...er of the opin ions and institutions of my time. Not, indeed, that public business transacted on paper, to take effect on the other side of the globe... ... over nearly the whole subject. These three masses of manuscript it was my business to condense into a single treatise, adopting the one last written ...

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... am a long-skirted devil,” Savely said after a brief interval, “they’ve no business to sleep here… . It’s govern- ment work; we shall have to answer f... ...horses and sent carriers all over the town; his widow had not given up the business, but managed the carriers as well as her husband had done, so that... ...xpectedly . “It’s not allowed! And since it is not allowed, people have no business … to get in… . Yes. It makes no difference to me, it’ s true, only... ...easy and did not sleep all night. Rodion did not sleep either. “It’s a bad business,” he said, sighing and turning from side to side. “The gentleman w... .... They have insulted the gentleman… . Oh, they’ve insulted him. It’s a bad business…” It happened that the peasants, Rodion amongst them, went into th... ...as it that with the new owner they lived in peace, and yet had been on bad terms with the engineer? And not knowing what answer to make to these quest... ...heir behaviour to her, and it was very noticeable that she was on intimate terms with the elder of them. But her deaf husband saw nothing, he did not ...

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... thought they had long known what was good and bad for men. An old wearisome business seemed to them all discourse about virtue; and he who wished to ... ...gers— with the fingers of the loving and unembarrassed artist who is on good terms with the beautiful and who feels able to create it and to enhance i... ...he sentiments of the discourse “In the Happy Isles”, but perhaps in stronger terms. Once again we find Nietzsche thoroughly at ease, if not cheer- ful... ... and word-coinages, who had nothing in common with him beyond the ideas and “business” they plagiarised; but the superficial observer and a large port... ...ect for Buddhism, and almost wherever he refers to it in his works, it is in terms of praise. He recognised that though Buddhism is undoubtedly a reli... ...Beyond Good and Evil”). Those who, like some political economists, talk in a business-like way about the terrific waste of human life and energy, deli...

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...e set up in fifty ways, On the day’s war with every knave and dolt, Theatre business, management of men. I swear before the dawn comes round again I’ll... ...hing hidden tree That all her thoughts may like the linnet be, And have no business but dispensing round Their magnanimities of sound, Nor but in merr... ... unchanging like the sword. Soul’s beauty being most adored, Men and their business took Me soul’s unchanging look; For the most rich inheritor, Knowi... ...ts lose the flower Through natural declension of the soul, Through too much business with the passing hour, Through too much play, or marriage with a f... ...POLITICS ‘In our time the destiny of man presents its meaning in political terms. ’—THOMAS MANN 358 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS HOW can I, that...

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...om recent reading, coloured with recent prejudice; and it is quite another business to put these writings coldly forth again in a bound volume. We are... ...rk called forth by my study in the columns of a literary Review. The exact terms in which that sheet disposed of Burns I cannot now recall; but they w... ... a writer that I had made his acquaintance; I took him on his own explicit terms; and when I learned details of his life, they were, by the nature of ... ...re of the case and my own parti-pris, read even with a certain violence in terms of his writings. There could scarce be a perversion more justifiable ... ... the author’s plainness mingles, as we read, with the nausea proper to the business. I shall quote here a verse of an old students’ song, worth laying... ..., what is to be said to his suicide, and how are we to condemn in adequate terms that unprincipled avidity after effect, which tells us that the sloop... ... inimitable bust of the poet’s head of gold; may I not be for- given if my business should have more to do with the feet, which were of clay? YOUTH. A... ... unlucky swain, or even string a few lines of verse that should clinch the business and fetch the hesitating fair one to the ground. Nor, perhaps, was... ... tear himself from his Clarinda and make a journey into the south- west on business. Clarinda gave him two shirts for his little son. They were daily ...