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safer, employees, passengers on the rail networks, the rail operators and the trade unions. There is conflict between the needs of these stakeholders and their contractual relationships. After the Hatfield accident in 2000 Railtrack were suffering a shortage of cash. They desperately needed to put money into making the rail networks safer. In buying their train ticket, passengers entered into a contract whereby Railtrack owe them a duty to provide a safe network. The confliction occurs

“challenge to destiny”, a contract not to be entered in hastily. Lessing makes the point that the profligate mating of David and Harriet’s marriage was as wasteful as the excesses of the flower children. Ultimately, Lessing sides with the Lovatts’ all suffering parents. It is hard to resist identifying Lessing with Dorothy, Harriet’s mother. Dorothy, the kind, sage, grey-haired granny is forced to rescue her daughter from the implications of her fertility. Dorothy “knew the cost, in every way, of a family

Times and San Francisco magazine ran long feature stories on the uptick of upper-middle- class professionals who worried to their therapists about polar bears or who dug through the trash cans of co-workers to recycle plastic bottles, as though suffering from a kind of eco-OCD. At the same time, folks like Pollan and Beavan provided a vision of green living that seemed to offer not just a smaller carbon footprint but a better life. Amid the fear was the hope that the ecological crisis would bring

good. We had a very good relation with the children. They told us what they like to do, they speak about their families. It was incredible to see the courage of this children, enjoying life even they have a particular past, without parents or suffering from diseases… So, when we started to work in the classroom, we wanted to be good with children, sometimes to much nice. But, we knew that we had to be serious, we had to work and discipline is also very important in Taabar. I think now, I

over Lucy. Lucy becomes pale and ill, and she bears two tiny red marks at her throat, for which -neither Dr. Seward nor Mina can account. Unable to arrive at a satisfactory diagnosis, Dr. Seward sends for his old mentor, Professor Van Helsing. Suffering from brain fever, Harker reappears in the city of Buda-Pest. Mina goes to join him. Van Helsing arrives in Whitby, and, after his initial examination of Lucy, orders that her chambers be covered with garlic—a traditional charm against vampires. For

from the Heart" program in 1991 in which employees voluntarily incurred short-term payroll deductions to offset the firm's higher operations costs. Employees also more routinely accepted payroll deductions to help the families of fellow workers suffering from terminal illnesses. Southwest's operational approach to the airline industry was a curious niche model for many years, but it was a model that was well poised for the increasingly competitive and cutthroat context in the third phase of the industry's

to pray for ?” or “You pray, Mr Wiggins ?” “But ain’t that where I’m going, Mr Wiggins, back in the earth ?” (page 224) Being electrocuted on an electric chair certainly terrorizes him, as it would scare any human being : he must be afraid of suffering at the moment of electrocution : “What it go’n feel like, Mr Wiggins ?” And he hopes it won’t take too long : “I hope it ain’t long” (page 225) What is also striking here is that for the first time, Jefferson is speaking about his past, his childhood

internationalists, the unequal distribution of political freedom for individuals is the problem. For Marxists, the central issue is the injustice of global capitalism and the stratification of class on a global scale. For critical theorists, it is the needless suffering caused not just by capitalism but also by other dynamics of modernity at the global level. Constructivists focus less on substantive issues than the broader problem of how changes in states’ identities and interests can shift the culture of IR from

research-based product development Innovative companies are competing fiercely between themselves in various therapeutic areas. They all strive to develop improved therapeutic alternatives and better treatments that prevent or cure many diseases, and relieve suffering. The role of intellectual property rights in medical progress: Because of the huge expenses, resources and risk involved in researching and developing new medicines, it is absolutely vital that effective intellectual property protection enables inventors

implying that people are very unhappy with their lives. 21. A "cess pool" is a covered hole for receiving sewage. 22."To put someone out of their misery" is a useful way of referring to a mercy-killing, which is done to end their suffering. 23. In this context, it means "Be quiet!" In other contexts, a truly great colloquial imperative command which generally means "Stop it!" 24."To make something up" is to create it yourself, or to produce a story or explanation