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method of marketing research, for two reasons. First, surveys cannot answer the important question of why someone prefers or does not prefer a product. Second, it is becoming increasingly difficult to motivate people to participate in a survey. This reluctance may be because of privacy concerns or because people are just too busy to respond. What Can You Learn from Research? Jack Vettriano is Scotland’s most famous living artist. However, Banff is not the most famous Scottish town. So it was a marketing

any unneeded effort is expended. Finally, when the person who will do the work provides the estimate, the person’s pride and ego may make him reluctant to later admit that an estimate was incorrect. When an estimate is made collaboratively, this reluctance to admit an estimate is wrong goes away. Some Design Is OK Naturally, it’s necessary for there to be some amount of design discussion while creating this list of tasks and estimates. We can’t create a list of tasks if we don’t have some idea

fewer the world contained the better. So every evening he married a fresh wife and had her strangled the following morning before the grand-vizir, whose duty it was to provide these unhappy brides for the Sultan. The poor man fulfilled his task with reluctance, but there was no escape, and every day saw a girl married and a wife dead. This behaviour caused the greatest horror in the town, where nothing was heard but cries and lamentations. In one house was a father weeping for the loss of his daughter

the ass who, at--er--such a supreme moment, would attempt to suggest that his call was unthinking and without significance. But, gentlemen, I shall prove to you that such was the foolish, self-convicting custom of the defendant. With the greatest reluctance, and the--er--greatest pain, I succeeded in wresting from the maidenly modesty of my fair client the innocent confession that the defendant had Best American Humorous Short Stories, by Various 118 induced her to correspond with him in

we are ready to speculate that he is just giving some familiar old vocables ('and', 'or', 'not', 'all', etc.) new meanings. This talk of meaning is intuitive, uncritical, and undefined, but it is a piece with translation; what it registers is our reluctance under such circumstances to "translate" the speaker's English into our English by the normal tacit method of homophonic translation. Or consider the familiar remark that even the most audacious system-builder is bound by the law of contradiction

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medium seems to have influenced her more than the intended message, because as a teenaged bride she will yearn for pregnancy in the traditional way of her culture, and she is spared the dangers inherent in childbirth at a tender age only by the reluctance of her more Westernized husband. At first her rebelliousness is channeled in acceptable ways—pasteurizing the milk, admiring a widow who eats forbidden onions—but when she expresses the wish to be a doctor she is leaping out of the realm of her

waiting for me are gone. Fran was probably one of the first ones out the door. But she has left me all their messages. I can barely see the phone under them. Half of the messages seem to be from Bill Peach. I guess he caught my disappearing act. With reluctance, I pick up the phone and dial his number. But God is merciful. It rings for a straight two minutes; no answer. I breathe quietly and hang up. Sitting back in my chair, looking out at the reddish-gold of late afternoon, I keep thinking about measurements

1988, PIBD 1988,III,389, which concerned the case of the transfer of a patented invention. 836 ARNOLD VAHRENWALD: PATENT LICENCE CONTRACTS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN LAW 165 1.1 The Reduction Of Royalties. French courts have shown reluctance to allow the licensee to plead the reduction of the stipulated royalties by reason of changing circumstances. Bourges 07.07.1942845 held that, by virtue of Article 1134 of the French Civil Code, the licensee cannot claim a reduction of the royalties

you met the agent in question? - If your memory is bad how did you make your pictures? - yes - yes - yes or no Trap / no answer really expected Answer given by Eitel - I should think my answer would be obvious. - May I say that I answer with reluctance and under duress. I have never been… - I probably met him at a party or two. - I didn’t know. - I’ve always thought of love in connection with women. - I can’t be sure. My memory is weak. - That’s a good question… I wonder how I did make them.