Can Our Cities Survive

drafts and made many thoughtful suggestions. Peter Christoffersen and Dietmar Leisen gave useful comments on how firms use derivatives. Gladys Yam helped with the proof reading and Lochlann Boyle made suggestions on the syntax. Geoff Chaplin critiqued our discussion of credit risk. Hans Buhlman, Yuri Kabanov and Philippe Artzner provided several historical details. A number of individuals shared their ideas and experiences with us. These include Sheen Kassouf, Case Sprenkle, Ed…

results for the magnitude estimation task 46 The Brown corpus (Francis and Kučera 1964; after Kennedy 1998: 24–6) 52 The SEU corpus, spoken texts (Quirk 1968; based on Kennedy 1998: 18) 53 Sample POS tagset from the BNC (CLAWS, v.5) 66 Population of cities on which dialect areas were based by informants (population data from www.visionofbritain.org.uk) (from Montgomery 2006: 204) 137 The ten most frequently identified dialect areas by survey location 137 (from Montgomery 2006: 196) Mean…

Rio de Janeiro lasts six hours A viagem de São Paulo ao Rio de Janeiro dura seis horas Take it from him, if you can Tire isto dele, se você puder were If I were you, I would study more Se eu fosse você, eu estudaria mais I were there when the crime happened Eu estava lá quando o crime aconteceu their Their cars are outside Os carros deles estão lá fora Their dresses were finished one our before the party Os vestidos delas ficaram prontos uma hora antes do baile this This is my…

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of this is possible to be felt upon exploration of our gastronomy that has been built, throughout time, with our diversity and at the same time our integration. Assim como nosso idioma que, em diferentes sotaques, é comum a todos em nosso país, alguns pratos chegaram ao Brasil todo onde foram ganhando diferentes temperos Just like our language that, although with different regional accents, is common to our whole country, the same happens to our food, in which some dishes reached all…

ideologies. Such is the case of “The End of History”, by Francis Fukuyama, establishing that neoliberalism would be a final stage of human society’s development. We all live in a system at fail stage in its own centers of command, and that intends to survive for the monopolization of decisions, based on the survival strongest one law. In another words, implementing a game whose basic rule is that everyone transfers all types of resources to few. It is because the richer and more…

phenomenon rather than as something made by certain people for certain purposes. Propaganda exists and thrives; it is the Siamese twin of our technological society. Only in the technological society can there be anything of the type and order of magnitude of modem propaganda, which is with us forever; and only with the all-pervading effects that Sow from propaganda can the technological society hold itself together and further expand. Most people are easy prey for propaganda, Ellul…

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is offered in the present work. Fewer still in terms of synchronic description. And none at all so comprehensive or in such depth has been produced within an English-speaking country. Moreover, our Grammar aims at this comprehensiveness and depth in treating English irrespective 2 of frontiers: our field is no less than the grammar of educated English current in the second half of the twentieth century in the world's major English-speaking communities. Only where a feature…

dragons. They were coming to eat me.” The child had been plagued by nightmares as far back as Maester Cressen could recall. “We have talked of this before,” he said gently. “The dragons cannot come to life. They are carved of stone, child. In olden days, our island was the westernmost outpost of the great Freehold of Valyria. It was the Valyrians who raised this citadel, and they had ways of shaping stone since lost to us. A castle must have towers wherever two walls meet at an angle,…