Board Interlocking

arrived in Rome, thanks to that big Internet café at the Piazza Barbarini, across the street from that fountain with the sculpture of that sexy merman blowing into his conch shell. He (Giovanni, that is—not the merman) had posted a flier on the bulletin board explaining that a native Italian speaker was seeking a native English speaker for conversational language practice. Right beside his appeal was another flier with the same request, word-for-word identical in every way, right down to…

when, by a short circuit, brain manipulation does the causal work of producing my belief and leaves the testimony like a board that slides just beneath a roof beam but bears none of its weight. This shows that an element that provides situational justification for a belief may play no role in producing or supporting the belief, even if this element, like the auxiliary unstressed board, stands ready to play a supporting role if the belief is put under pressure by a challenge. Epistemic…

sociedades que possam ser consideradas concorrentes no mercado, em especial, em conselhos consultivos, de administração ou fiscal; e II – tiver interesse conflitante com a sociedade”. Essa regra, sobretudo o inciso I, trata da proibição da chamada interlocking directorates, que se resume na ideia de que “um homem deve servir a um chefe, apenas” (“serve one master only”). Norma extremamente interessante acerca dos administradores da companhia é a do art. 148 da LSA, que permite ao…

common uses for these materials are as ovenware, tableware, oven windows, and rangetops—primarily because of their strength and excellent resistance to thermal shock.They also serve as electrical insulators and as substrates for printed circuit boards, and are used for architectural cladding, and for heat exchangers and regenerators. A typical glass– ceramic is also included in Table 13.1, and the microstructure of a commercial material is shown in the chapter opening photograph…