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Northern Rock example, The
In the first of a two part series, Marcus Johnson gives answers to some of the burning questions around the Northern Rock affair: whose fault was it? Will it happen again? What should the government do? He commends the nationalisation of Northern Rock and suggests returning bank supervision to the...
Tags: bank, Bank of England, Government, guarantor, illusion, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-04-30
Schuster under no illusions about Real Madrid job
MADRID AFP — Real Madrid's new coach Bernd Schuster said Monday he was under no illusions as to the task ahead of him, namely winning trophies by playing a strictly 'beautiful game.' The man nicknamed the Blond Angel has been given clear orders by president Ramon Calderon to inject...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, CAREER, Games, Government, illusion, job, Madrid, Regulations, Strategy
Research articles 2007-07-09
Good point.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the editor)
THE COVER YOU CHOSE TO promote Flynt Leverett's wise and thoroughly well-informed article "Illusion and Reality" [September 2006] is a good example of why so many of us European friends of the American Democratic Party begin to lose all hope for democratic politics in the United...
Tags: Democratic Party, FINANCE, illusion
Research articles 2006-10-01
Unbeaten Fed are up for tough test
Dunston Federation are under no illusions that they face a tough test when fellow First Division high-flyers West Auckland visit Federation Park tomorrow. Fed secretary Bill Montague said: "We seem to have played most of the top sides so far and West Auckland could be one of the toughest."...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, illusion, Leadership
Research articles 2006-09-29
The downfall of optimism.
Jun. 23--Wimps don't win wars. That's conventional wisdom for you, which extorts you be bold and brash. Prophets of Power advise you to be positive: seize the world by its horns and master it like a man. Recent research from Princeton University, however, shows this to ...
Tags: computer, Games, illusion, Leadership, Princeton University, PRODUCTIVITY, researcher
Research articles 2006-06-23
Evolution gets busy in the urban lab.
Byline: Bob Holmes Apr 26, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Biologists are showing an increasing interest in animals living in urban areas. For Joel Brown, an ecologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, one of the most interesting aspects...
Tags: biology, illusion, University of Illinois
Research articles 2006-04-26
If the Bush administration is under any illusions about the sorry political state of the Iraq war, recent action in the Senate should dispel them
If the Bush administration is under any illusions about the sorry political state of the Iraq war, recent action in the Senate should dispel them. A Democratic proposal for a timetable for withdrawal was beaten back 5840, but Republicans passed their own version to force the administration to make quarterly...
Tags: illusion, Republican, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2005-12-05
NTT Com System Creates Illusion and Tactile Feeling - Video Report
Tokyo, July 12, 2007 - JCN - NTT Communications has developed a system which creates not only the illusion of depth visually but also the tactile feeling to go with it, allowing people to shake hands or hold solid objects from across the globe.
Tags: illusion, NTT Corp., video
Research articles 2007-07-12
Mark Leier's pulp-fiction favorites.(movie, book and music FAVOURITES)
Ross Thomas wrote 25 mystery novels between 1966 and 1995. Before that, he ran campaigns for union leaders: Republicans, Democrats and a Nigerian tribal chief. Politics--the back-room, back-biting, deal-cutting kind--runs through most of his work. Out on the Rim, nominally a caper novel, is also a...
Tags: CIA, Government, illusion, movie, Republican
Research articles 2004-11-01
The illusion of law: the legitimating schemas of modern policy and corporate law.
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. THE META SCRIPT OF POLICYMAKING A. The Emergence of the Summary Meta Script B. The Mere Script: Elaborating the Summary Script ...
Tags: Allen, Ben & Jerry, director, government, illusion, M., regulation, Robert, scholar, shareholder, theory
Research articles 2004-10-01
Iraqi transition an illusion, says father of beheaded US civilian
LONDON AFP ? The father of a US civilian beheaded in Iraq dismissed as an illusion trick the handover of power to an Iraqi interim administration as he joined anti-war campaigners on a visit to London. "This transfer of power is nothing more than another nut and shell game...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, civilian, Games, illusion, INTERNET, Iraq, London
Research articles 2004-06-29
Leeds' new boss Blackwell "under no illusions"
LEEDS AFP ? Kevin Blackwell insists he is "under no illusions" about the size of the task ahead after being named manager of Leeds United. Leeds United, relegated from the English Premiership last season, made Kevin Blackwell their fifth manager in two years. Blackwell, 45, has been offered...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, illusion, United
Research articles 2004-05-26
Democrat Magicians Escape 9/11 Culpability
Clinton Officials Perform Houdini-Like Acts of 'Illusory'Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines magician as "one who performs tricks of illusion and sleight of hand" and "one skilled in magic," a "sorcerer." That's an apt description for the parade of Democrats, leftists and peaceniks attacking President Bush on his efforts managing the war on...
Tags: al-Qaeda, Bush, Democrat, Government, illusion, president, terrorism
Research articles 2004-04-12
Decorative fountains make a splash indoors.(New Homes)(Make your new house a home)
Byline: Arlene Arends Daily Herald Staff Writer Recirculating water pumps have come a long way since the days when they were used as advertising gimmicks. Today, water pumps create the illusion of flowing water in back yards, corporate atriums and now on...
Tags: Cooper, illusion, PRODUCTIVITY
Research articles 2003-08-30
Illusion may have led to F-16 crash
The crash of a Hill Air Force Base F-16 that claimed the life of Lt. Col. Dillon L. McFarland was partly due to an optical illusion that tricked him into thinking his plane had more altitude than it did, according to a report released Monday by Hill officials. ...
Tags: Air Force, E-mail, illusion, Manufacturing
Research articles 2003-04-08
In the end, all walls must fall - Starting Point - Brief Article
The drive from Kentucky to Manhattan seemed longer than usual. The mere thought of what it would feel like to see those twin beams of light haunting the night sky where the World Trade Center towers once stood made me cringe. I thought about it for practically the entire trip....
Tags: fence, illusion, Kentucky, Manhattan, photograph, SOFTWARE, tower, World Trade Center
Research articles 2002-10-11
Transcript of Gephardt Remarks on Corporate Responsibility, Homeland Security, etc. (1/2)
WASHINGTON, July 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a transcript of remarks by House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt on corporate responsibility and homeland security (part 1 of 2): Mr. Gephardt. Good morning. First, I wanted to say that tomorrow in the Democratic Caucus, we will have a...
Tags: conference, FINANCE, Government, illusion, Leadership, president, Regulations, Republican, Sarbanes-Oxley, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2002-07-17
Twin quasars tango and it's no mirage.
M2 PRESSWIRE-14 March 2002-NASA: Twin quasars tango and it's no mirage C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14032002 Scientists have unraveled a longstanding mystery about a rare double quasar system 11 billion light years from Earth using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory....
Tags: Cambridge, Earth, illusion, NASA, scientist
Research articles 2002-03-14
Looks can be deceiving.(Neighbor)
This summer, Caroline Freitag, a student at St. Edward Central Catholic High School in Elgin, joined 11 other high school students to work with world-renowned expert on the physiology of illusions, Al Seckel, during the Institute for Educational Advancement's Apprenticeship Program. Al Seckel,...
Tags: California Institute of Technology, Fax, illusion, Robots
Research articles 2001-12-03
Retired But Untiring
RETIRED BUT UNTIRING: William Sloane Coffin, shown here at his home in Strafford, Vermont, says he is "flunking retirement." At age 78, the activist minister, who inspired the "Rev. Sloan" character in the Doonesbury comic strip, is still fighting racism, sexism, and the arms race. "On September 11," he wrote...
Tags: activist, illusion, New York Times Co., Vermont
Research articles 2001-10-10