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decorative objects, but later it was molded or pressed into vessels, and later for windows. In the West glass manufacturing was dispersed into isolated sites after the fall of the Roman Empire, but was continued in Byzantium and later in the Middle East by Arabs. Venice became the center of resurgent glass industry in the West from about 1,300 on. Today, glass is always used in the home from windows and plates to pottery, or used as decoration. It used in industry from lenses in machinery to shields

doesn’t build products here. Sony’s consumer electronics plants are located throughout Asia. Almost all parts that Sony does not build in-house are purchased from companies who have manufacturing plants based in Asia, Central America, and the Middle East. When thinking about the reasons why Sony does not have any manufacturing plants here in the United States, it is also interesting to consider what effects this may have on their success as company. The cost of labor in the United States is the

lancé dans le trafic de drogues, qu'il fut assassiné dans un hôtel new-yorkais. Johnny Torrio (Février 1882 - 16 Avril 1957) Adolescent à New York et enchaînant les petits boulots, il finit par devenir le chef d'une petite bande dans le Lower East Side. Grâce à l'argent qu'il a gagné avec "sa bande", il ouvra sa salle de jeux clandestine. Il fut ainsi remarqué par Paul Kelly, le chef du Five Points Gang dont Torrio devint le Second. Il apprit de Kelly la diplomatie et la façon de se tenir en

proportionnelle = proportional representation 6 le Sénat = the Senate (Upper House) une voix = a vote un élu = someone elected une circonscription = a constituency le parlement = parliament l'Assemblée Nationale = the National assembly (the Lower house) le marché unique = the single market l'Union Européenne (UE) = the European Union le traité = treaty la monnaie unique = single currency un pays = a country la frontière = border un état membre = a member state la libre circulation =

original, and the decision was made by a senior court (or sometimes at the same level) Persuasive precedent o Not binding on the court o Judge may consider it o If decides principle is correct, he will follow it o Happens in a number of ways  Courts lower in hierarchy R v R [1991] UKHL 12 o Marital rape case HL agreed with and followed the same reasoning as the court of appeal  Decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Privy court is the highest appeal court for certain domestic situations

(1938) Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan (1956) R. K. Narayan: The Guide (1958) Attia Hosain: Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) Anita Desai: Games at Twilight (1978) Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India (1988) Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine (1989) Salman Rushdie: East, West (1994) Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy (1994) Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance (1996) Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (1997) Michael Ondaatje: Anil’s Ghost (2000) vii 3 11 27 47 59 75 87 99 111 129 147 155 165 177 vi Contents 14

on the highway and HONKS. The mud flaps are the shiny silhouettes of naked women. There is a bumper sticker on the back that says: "Lick you all over -- ten cents." LOUISE One of your friends? Thelma is watching herself in the side mirror, pretending to smoke a cigarette. THELMA'S POV OF A SIGN alongside the road that reads "See you in church on Sunday!" Thelma pushes in the lighter and waits for it to pop out. Louise gives her a sidelong glance, but does not

 This  generally  refers   to   a   territory   whose   financial   center   is   used   by   the   non-­‐residents   as   a   investment   or   savings   platform.   From   this   side,   a   tax   haven   can   be   considered   an   offshore   place,   whereas  an  offshore  territory  is  not  necessarily  defined  as  a  tax  haven.   D. Where  are  the

historical and sociological circumstances, not by special aptitudes inherent in the anatomical or physiological make-up of the black, yellow or white man. It seemed to us, however, that the very effort made in this series of booklets to prove this negative side of the argument, involved a risk of pushing into the background another very important aspect of the life of man— the fact that the development of human life is not everywhere the same but rather takes form in an extraordinary diversity of societies

which is stored with subtle lights and has no interaction of time and space. The other is the manifested impression. The emotions of narrow mindedness, meanness, inferiority complex, selfishness, jealousy and mental perversion are produced in this side. The actual thing is ascribing meanings to the thoughts. The meaning described to thoughts becomes the ideas and concepts. And these very concepts after taking the shape of manifested features determine the ways of our life-cither a life full of joy