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age” to a premature end, the organization has managed to survive and function in a largely hostile global environment through sheer tenacity and resilience. OPEC was born in September 1960 with the principal objective of taking a collective stand against blatant transgressions by the major oil companies — the Seven Sisters.1 The five original founders — Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela — wanted the organization to act as a manager of the world oil market, comparable to the Texas Railroad

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......................... 86 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank all the academic staff at Newcastle University not just for their teaching but for how they shared their knowledge and experience of the field of translation. I would like to add special thanks to Myriem el-Maizi for her support and help throughout the project including her assistance with Arabic terms in France. I would also like to thank my all my source and target language informants who helped me unravel a difficult

Productions, c2010. SPA 709.720905 TWENTY Daily, thousands of primarily poor and young indigenous Mexicans abandon their native homes. They start voyages to the first world in search of jobs and the hope of a brighter future or, any economic future at all. In their wake, they leave behind the hollow footprints of a cultural and domestic abandonment. 2,501 Migrants: A Journey illustrates this through the story of Alejandro Aantiago, a middle-aged artist and family man from Oaxaca, Mexico. Relatively affluent

Página 1 de 200 Word and Object Willard Van Orman Quine Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy Harvard University -iiiCOPYRIGHT © 1960 BY THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY All Rights Reserved This book or any part thereof must not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-9621 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -ivTo RUDOLF CARNAP Teacher and Friend -v-viWie Schiffer sind wir, die ihr Schiff auf offener See

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Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women; Together with a Fe w Observations Thereon (quoted in Heller-stein et al. 1981), noted that in the marriage service an Englishwoman heard her husband promise her all his worldly goods. But, in fact, after the marriage all her belongings and her body were, by law, considered her husband’s property. Even into the second half of the twentieth century, a married woman could not enter into a contract without her husband’s consent (yet she could

Masterpieces" Series, etc. INTRODUCTION This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorous short stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in

side” personality traits: the Big Five traits, core self-evaluations, intelligence, and charisma. We also consider the positive and negative effects of “dark side” leader traits: Narcissism, hubris, dominance, and Machiavellianism. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. If one sought to find singular conditions that existed across species, one might find few universals. One universal that does exist, at least those species that have brains and nervous systems, is leadership. From insects to reptiles