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They Knew What They Wanted
They Knew What They Wanted (1924), a play by Sidney Howard. [Garrick Theatre, 192 perf.; Pulitzer Prize.] Tony ( Richard Bennett), an aging Italian winegrower in the California Napa Valley, proposes by letter to a San Francisco waitress, Amy ( Pauline Lord), who waited on him once. Fearing she... Read more |
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Quantitative Analysis
Quantitative analysis The term quantitative analysis is used to described any procedure by which the percentage composition of any compound or mixture is determined. For example, chemists might want to know the exact composition of some new compound that has been discovered. Or they might want to... Read more |
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Gerald Levert
Gerald Levert Singer For the Record … Selected discography Sources Following his father’s tradition, Gerald Levert has carved out a successful career as a writer, arranger, producer, and performer. The son of Eddie Levert Sr., vocalist and lead arranger of the longstanding R&B... Read more |
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Wants
Wants BIBLIOGRAPHY In economics, the term want refers to a wish or desire to own goods and services that give satisfaction. More generally, the concept involves the endless succession of material wants exhibited by all human beings. Material wants are the desires of consumers to obtain and use... Read more |
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ways there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream proverbial saying, mid 19th century; meaning that there are more ways of achieving an end that giving an opponent a glut of what they most want. (Compare the next two entries.)there are more ways of killing a dog than choking it... Read more |
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Philip Moeller
Moeller, Philip (1880–1958), director and producer. The native New Yorker was educated at New York University and Columbia before co‐founding the Washington Square Players, where he directed several productions. After that group disbanded, Moeller served in similar capacities for the... Read more |
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Old Man
Old Man Old Man, also known as Napi, is a creator god and tricksterfigure in the mythology of the Blackfoot Indians of North America. He is said to have created the world and all the creatures in it. To make humans, Old Man fashioned figures out of clay and breathed ... Read more |
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Tripartite Pact
Tripartite Pact, negotiated in Tokyo and signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by Germany, Italy, and Japan. It was primarily intended to forestall US intervention in the war, for the terms included promise of mutual aid if any one of the signatories was attacked by a power not already involved in... Read more |
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High Finance
HIGH FINANCE Corporate Champion During the early years of the 1980s, the financial institutions of the United States in effect became the chosen industry and corporate champion of the nation. The secretary of the treasury, Donald Regan, who was also the former president of... Read more |
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Ripples of Hope Follow Taiwan-China Voyages; Small Step Toward Better...
...war between China and Taiwan. "It was...No one wants to see a war with Taiwan," said the...legal voyage to China, arriving...to do it." China's media played...happened. "This really is not a ... |
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TAIWAN: CHINA WARNS AGAINST INDEPENDENCE AS MISSILE TESTS BEGIN
...the front-runner in Taiwan's first direct presidentialelections...towardindependence. China considers Taiwan a renegade province of...What they should really worry about is that the...forces bent onsplitting China, continue on their wrong... |
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Taiwan: China Threat Justifies Referendum
...Saturday that he wants to hold the vote caused a big stir in Taiwan because China has repeatedly warned...have never ruled Taiwan since coming to power...belongs to Beijing. China has yet to respond...old Communists to ... |
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Domestic politics in Taiwan and China fueled military drama.(Originated from...
...Beijing does not want to deal with Taiwan...reunification. But China had to respond to Taiwan's efforts to change...aggressive assertion of Taiwan's new status may...clean break from China. ``I guess all...legislator. ``It's ... |
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Bush would do `whatever it took' to defend Taiwan against China.(Knight...
...with China. "If China attacks in response...our interests and Taiwan's are better served...jurisdiction over China issues. (EDITORS...of his support for Taiwan by citing the Taiwan...s the message I really ... |
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Reunification by trade? Taiwan and China.
...The president wants an outline agreement...mainly to the economy. China still asserts that Taiwan is an integral part...proposed accord is really a ploy by China to bring about unification...other FTAs to keep Taiwan out ... |
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Taiwan greets China's goodwill gesture with caution
...to understand Taiwan's mainstream...harmless, but both Taiwan and China are masters at...goodwill, but we really don't know...said the party wants to know what...Beijing's "one-China principle" before...principle holds that ... |
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More than U.S. arms needed to protect Taiwan from China.(Knight Ridder...
...Conservatives in Congress want President Bush...way to protect Taiwan but still avoid a war between China and the United...arms sales to Taiwan have minimum impact. What defends Taiwan is the U.S...commitment." What really ... |
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Analysis: Rising tensions between Taiwan and China
...the very pro-Taiwan Bush administration...Chen Shui-bian wants. Mr. XIAOJEN...anger towards China, and that anger, you know, China's intimidation...know, he can really take advantage of these anti-China sentiment ... |
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Popping home; Taiwan and China.
...He says he wants to maintain...years whereby Taiwan would agree...a pledge by China not to attack...far at least. China will have a...was to show China that there was not really such a big gap...not only in ... |
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