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demand for capital goods. (Fr: principe d'accélérateur) accepting houses - banks that buy (for a commission or fee) export merchants' short-term bills of exchange, expecting the debtor to pay up at the right time. (Fr: maison d'acceptation) accommodation – money that is lent for a short time. account - a statement of money paid or owed; an arrangement with a firm that allows credit for payments. (Fr: compte) accountability - the state of being responsible to someone for some actions (company directors

will be concentrated here. Insertion of our BattleMechs will be made on our next turn around the planet, a low-orbit pass over the area, via drop-pods and stealth ‘chutes.” Surprised looks at the mention of parachutes. “It will be early morning, local time,” he explained, “and we don’t want landing flares to give us away. “The Black Hammer and the Eclipse will deploy six lancesize commando teams. We’re Commando One, but don’t let that go to your head. It just means we hit the ground first.” Sober expressions

the global equivalent of a tribal village. We were approaching “the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society.”1 Even at the crest of its fame, Understanding Media was a book more talked about than read. Today it has become a cultural relic, consigned to media studies courses in universities. But McLuhan, as much a showman as a scholar, was a master at turning phrases, and one of them

managers in the client organization. A common problem with conventional consulting is that the new organization fails to persist some time after the change project has ended and when the consultants have left the organization. This is overcome by the IMC-model since it transfers necessary knowledge and tools to the client’s managers who then can drive the change as well as ensure sustainability long after the project itself is completed. The IMC-model is more cost-efficient than conventional consulting

WINE in CHINA its History and Contemporary Developments Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad Grootmeester-Wijnproever van het Nederlands Wijngilde Pieter EIJKHOFF draft; 2000.10.15 II Fig. 1 (Title page): The Chinese character 'jiu' with the general connotation 'wine' on a wooden Japanese sake cup. The left part of the character, three strokes, indicates 'liquid', the right hand part indicates a wine vessel. (from: Von Siebold House, Leyden, The Netherlands) CIP-gegevens Koninklijke

swinging as if she had just dropped his arm, rather than pass before the bright light of the globes over the door in his company. When Gervaise awoke about five o'clock, stiff and sore, she burst into wild sobs, for Lantier had not come in. For the first time he had slept out. She sat on the edge of the bed, half shrouded in the canopy of faded chintz that hung from the arrow fastened to the ceiling by a string. Slowly, with her eyes suffused with tears, she looked around this miserable chambre garnie,

Meaning of Liff The Deeper Meaning of Liff What’s the name of the tallest mountain in the world? Mauna Kea, the highest point on the island of Hawaii. The inactive volcano is a modest 13,799 feet above sea level, but when measured from the seabed to its summit, it is 33,465 feet high—about three-quarters of a mile taller than Mount Everest. As far as mountains are concerned, the current convention is that “highest” means measured from sea level to summit; “tallest” means measured from the bottom of

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food — and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. The prose is quintessentially McCarthy:

in the University of London; and at one time Reader in Geography in the University. of Oxford. Author o f " B r i t a i n and the British Seas." NDU Press Defense Classic Edition With a N e w I n t r o d u c t i o n by STEPHEN V. MLADINEO NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY PRESS Washington, DC National Defense University Press Publications To increase general knowledge and inform discussion, the Institute for National Strategic Studies, through its publication arm the NDU Press, publishes