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investment and the rise of multinational corporations (MNCs). By the 1980s, the annual volume of sales of the 10 largest MNCs was greater than the gross domestic product (GDP) of 87 countries (Dougherty & Pfaltzgraff, 1990). This reflects the extent of cross-border trade and investment promoted by these multinationals. MNCs also established themselves as powerful international entities capable of influencing government policies in their favour. In addition, through their presence in trade and investment

sacrée, L'Homme.' The poet thus dreamt of a vast epic, of which the central figure should be no mythical or legendary hero, but Man himself, conceived as struggling upwards from the darkness of barbarism to the light of a visionary golden age. Every epoch was to be painted in its dominant characteristic, every aspect of human thought was to find its fitting expression. The first series could pretend to no such completeness, but the poet promised that the gaps should be filled up in succeeding volumes

prompt nor inhibit. Querying the sentence on the heels of such a stimulation would elicit a verdict, but always the one that the query would have elicited without the attendant stimulation; never a change of verdict. The stimulus meaning is a full cross-section of the subject's evolving dispositions to assent to or dissent from a sentence, if the sentence is an occasion sentence; less so if it is a standing sentence. Standing sentences can differ among themselves in "meaning," by any intuitive account

knowledge o f humanity at large in regard to the realities of the round world on which we must practice the intricate art of living together. It is not merely that we have amassed vast encyclopaedias of fact, but that, as we live through each new epoch, we see all the past and all the present with new eyes and from new standpoints. It is obvious that these four years o f war have wrought a change in human outlook the like o f which was not effected in all the previous life of those of us who have

vitality of our societies, preserve at the very least the living memory of irreplaceable customs, practices and know-how that should not be allowed to disappear. For it is diversity itself that must be saved rather than the historical content that each epoch invests in it and which none can perpetuate beyond its own confines.” “Global civilization could never be anything other than the coalition at global levels of cultures, each of them retaining its originality.” Claude Lévi-Strauss, French ethnologist

d’autres couleurs, ne changent pas vraiment le fait que ce que voit l’individu est la seule chose que peut appréhender la conscience : « La couleur ressentie est le ‘phénomène pur’, les données scientifiques sont en suspension, entre parenthèses, ou époché. Seule la connaissance phénoménologique est certaine et alors, seulement 119 aux yeux de l’individu ». Dans cette lignée, Merleau-Ponty (1945), dans son ouvrage « Phénoménologie de la perception » définit la phénoménologie comme « l’étude des

virées nocturnes. prix France 4 – semaine de la critique, cannes 2012 In a city that only has thirteen ambulances for two million inhabitants, Krassi, Mila and Plamen are unlikely heroes. These humorous, self-deprecating, chain-smoking individuals cross Sofia every night, answering distress calls, despite the lack of resources. Although the bulgarian health system is in ruins, Krassi remains true to his vocation. As for Mila and Plamen, who have other jobs in the day, how long will they hold out?

three railroad tracks running parallel into infinity. They are not philosophically constant and pure like three stately, tranquil and independent streams … [t]hey are streams, with eddies and cross-currents, sometimes interlacing and never for long confined to their own river bed … They both influence and cross-fertilize one another, and they change without, I think, losing their inner identity. The ‘three traditions’ idea was Wight’s response to his own observation that there was no discrete body

bienfaisante : charitably bienfaiteur : benefactor biens : property bientôt : soon bientôt a : see you soon, bye bienveillance : goodwill bienvenir : welcome bienvenu : welcome bienvenue : welcome bienvenues : welcomed bière : ale, beer biffer : cross out, strike out biffin : rag and bone man bifteck : steak, beefsteak bifurquer : offset bigame : bigamist bigarrai : streaked bigarrâmes : streaked bigarrant : streaking bigarre : streaks bigarré : multicoloured French−english Dictionary 255 French−english

requests by living consistently with our prayer? If selfishness has given place to kindness, we shall regard our neighbor unselfishly, and bless them that curse us; but we shall never meet this great duty simply by asking that it may be done. There is a cross to be taken up before we can enjoy the fruition of our hope and faith. 18 21 Practical religion Dost thou "love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind"? This command includes much, even the surrender