Nicholas Prize

R. BARBER, THE DEATH OF COMMUNAL LIBERTY: A HISTORY OF FREEDOM IN A SWISS MOUNTAIN CANTON 172– 203 (1974). For a brief but perceptive discussion of the relationship between Swiss representative government and its practice of direct democracy, see NICHOLAS GILLETT, THE SWISS CONSTITUTION: CAN IT BE EXPORTED? 24–25 (1989). 105 As Gillett writes: “Party politics are very obvious in some of the cantons but they are so subdued in the Cabinet and to some extent in Parliament that it is…

Law from the University of Strasbourg, and began his career with the United Nations in 1948. By his retirement in 1986, he had risen through the ranks to be an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, and his World Core Curriculum earned a UNESCO prize in 1989. He later served as Chancellor of the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica. He met his first wife, Margarita Gallo, at the UN in the late 1940s; after her death in the 1990s, he remarried. Muller has been a public supporter of…

Ministério de Relações Exteriores da Fin- 00introedm:2013 10/28/13 9:56 AM Page xii xii I Estado do Mundo 2013 lândia; Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century; Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund e o Goldman Environmental Prize; Shenandoah Foundation; Small Planet Fund of RSF Social Finance; Steven C. Leuthold Family Foundation; Transatlantic Climate Bridge do Ministério Federal Alemão para o Meio Ambiente, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety; United…

said to the bronze ring: "Prepare a splendid ship in which I may continue my journey. Let the hull be of fine gold, the masts of silver, the sails of brocade; let the crew consist of twelve young men of noble appearance, dressed like kings. St. Nicholas will be at the helm. As to the cargo, let it be diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and carbuncles." And immediately a ship appeared upon the sea which resembled in every particular THE DESCRIPTION GIVEN BY THE GARDENER'S SON, and,…

de experiências extremamente precoces. A recordação de acontecimentos ocorridos no final do primeiro ano de vida não é extremamente rara, e existem exemplos possíveis de lembranças ainda mais remotas. Com três anos de idade perguntaram a meu filho Nicholas qual o acontecimento mais antigo que ele podia lembrar e ele respondeu sussurrando, com o olhar fixo à meia distância: “Era tudo vermelho e eu sentia muito frio”. Ele nascera de parto cesáreo. Deve ser muito improvável, mas eu me…

for a fall in the dollar.37 35 Richard N Cooper, Robert Putnam, Barry Eichengreen, C.Randall Henning and Gerald Holtham: Can Nations Agree? Issues in International Co-operation (The Brookings Institution, 1989) 36 See Robert D.Putnam and Nicholas Bayne: Hanging Together. The Seven-Power Summits (Heinemann, RIIA, 1984) They argue that the summits were useful, but make no claim for co-operation on international monetary policy. 37 I.M.Destler and C.Randall Henning: Dollar…

1995; Shiki, 2003). O desenvolvimento de sementes adaptadas aos solos ácidos e clima seco do Cerrado foi o pontapé inicial para a ocupação massiva de grandes lavouras no bioma. A abertura da fronteira agrícola já rendeu até o prêmio World Food Prize, considerado o “Nobel” da alimentação, aos cientistas que trabalharam no desenvolvimento das variedades de sementes utilizadas, sendo considerada um dos grandes feitos da humanidade nas últimas décadas. Tal modelo agrícola, alardeado pelos seus

zero-emissions RES Head Office and Visitors’ Centre. He recently published Architecture and the Environment. Richard Partington worked for Nicholas Hare Architects before establishing his own practice, which specialises in urban renewal schemes and lowenergy projects, in 1998. A design consultant for the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, his work includes the prize-winning Charities Aid Foundation offices at King’s Hill in Kent, the Nokia Telecommunications Research and Development…

Cones 0 12 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Quantity of Ice-Cream Cones CHAPTER 4 T H E M A R K E T F O R C E S O F S U P P LY A N D D E M A N D 71 Table 4-2 shows the demand schedules for ice cream of two individuals— Catherine and Nicholas. At any price, Catherine’s demand schedule tells us how much ice cream she buys, and Nicholas’s demand schedule tells us how much ice cream he buys. The market demand is the sum of the two individual demands. Because market demand is…

a maior recessão desde o fim da Guerra – combinada com elevadas taxas de inflação. Neste sentido Luís Máximo dos Santos, A Participação da Comunidade Europeia na Organização Mundial do Comércio, ob. cit., pp. 161 e ss. 185 Cf., Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1991, pp. 35 e ss.; Paul R. Krugman e Maurice Obstfeld, International eonomics: theory and policy, London, Addison Wesley, 6ª ed., pp. 430 e ss. 186 Cf., James C Ingram,…