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Ads by Google      comp75.txt PETER H. from this - "The patient is not suffering from any disease or organic malady, old age seems to be the principle cause of his present condition. PETER HARDEMAN5 BURNETT (GEORGE4, JAMES3, GEORGE2, THOMAS1) was born November 15, 1807 in Nashville, Tennessee, and died May 17, 1895 in San Francisco, California. Peter H. was elected Captain but trouble soon arose when those who had no loose cattle objected to doing guard duty to care for them. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/etc/comp75.txt   (4944 words)      David Hume Usually called the "Copy Principle," Hume's distinctive brand of empiricism is often identified with his commitment to it. Hume managed to extricate himself from this situation, and accepted the invitation of his cousin, Lieutenant-General James St. Clair, to be his Secretary ("I wore the uniform of an officer.") on a military expedition against the French in Quebec. In 1763, Hume accepted an invitation from Lord Hertford, the Ambassador to France, to serve as his Private Secretary. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume   (8104 words)      The National Interest - 19/03/00: Mandatory sentencing; Media and privacy; Royal tour Peter Andren: Well, there comes a time, Terry, where you just have to stand up on matters of principle, and I’ve adopted that policy right throughout the time I’ve been member, I hope, and I quite frankly don’t think it’s cost me any support. Mr Peter Andren, the Independent Member for the New South Wales seat of Calare, is proposing a Private Member’s Bill, and Peter Andren is on the phone. Independent federal parliamentarian PETER ANDREN, who this week tabled a http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/natint/stories/s113434.htm   (8104 words)      The Carillon - News - June 17, 2004 - Week #25 Epp agreed in principle but expressed concerned about the government having no representation on the board when it, in the end, is responsible for costs. Epp, while noting he is "not necessarily in favor" of the law, insisted he would not represent the constituency in the same manner Toews has spoken on the issue. Epp, in his opening statement, said voters are facing a choice between "two very different visions of Canada." http://www.thecarillon.com/newsjun17_04.html   (4786 words)      Peter Caruana Speaks On Referendum, by Jason Gorringe, Tax-News.com, London In a Ministerial speech broadcast by GBC Television on Monday, the Rock's Chief Minister, Peter Caruana strongly urged the population of Gibraltar to vote 'No' to joint sovereignty with Spain in Thursday's referendum. Speaking with regard to the 'in principle' concession on joint sovereignty announced by Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, Jack Straw in the House of Commons on July 12, the Gibraltarian Chief Minister told viewers that: Meanwhile, speaking at a press conference in London, UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair - arguably deliberately - missed the point of Peter Caruana's argument, explaining that: http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story_print.asp?storyname=9904   (201 words)      iafrica.com news sa news Peter Marais trial moves to Knysna The modern principle of taking justice to the people has caused the transfer to Knysna of the corruption trial involving former Western Cape premier and mayor, Peter Marais, and former Western Cape MEC for Environmental Affairs, David Malatsi. Le Roux said Morrison was in fact to be commended for ensuring Marais and Malatsi a speedy trial, by scheduling the hearing as soon as November. Count Agusta, who has skipped the country, was to have joined Marais and Malatsi in the dock, but the State has abandoned efforts to secure his presence in court. http://iafrica.com/news/sa/270431.htm   (201 words)      THROUGH THE EYES OF CHARACTER On November 5, 1973, Republican Senator Peter H. Dominick told the Denver Bar Association that the distrust surrounding President Richard Nixon over Watergate had spread to "our entire government" due to the failure of Congress to hold President Nixon accountable. Senator Dominick was convinced that political partisanship had no place at the table of high principle, because the country itself was at stake. Twenty-five years ago Senator Dominick identified two steps urgently needed to restore confidence in the character of our government. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a505273.htm   (201 words)      Kropotkin, Self-Valorization and the Crisis of Marxism Kropotkin's researches into the actual working of society both revealed to him, and then came to be guided by, a general principle which he treated most systematically in his writings on mutual aid. On the contrary, he thought that the law of mutual aid could be seen, through the course of history, to be ascendant. Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872-1886, New York, Cambridge University Press http://www.eco.utexas.edu/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/kropotkin.html   (6365 words)      IDENTIFYING THE MORI TREATY PARTNER In New Zealand, constitutional amendment takes place in a variety of ways, including legislative amendment, judicial pronouncements, and interaction between political events and constitutional principle. A recent report by the New Zealand Law Commission collates the views of Mori contributors, reporting that Mori customary law, or 'tikanga Mori,' continues to govern relationships in Mori environments and institutions, despite governmental actions and policies ignoring or actively suppressing its use. A recent attempt to establish a new national Mori grouping comprising representatives from Congress, the Council, the League, and the Federation of Mori Authorities appears to have stalled on issues of representation. http://www.utpjournals.com/product/utlj/521/521_gover.html   (13431 words)      House of Commons - Environmental Audit - Minutes of Evidence Sir David Williams: It would certainly help, but the basic principle—we gave evidence about this before—is that we want escalating penalties. Q159 Chairman: Sir David, this Sub-committee is going to produce, to an expectant world, a report on environmental crime in the courts and sentencing and so on in about a fortnight's time so I would prefer it if the Committee did not explore territory which we have already covered. I see that Mr Hunt is shaking his head vigorously. http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmenvaud/445/4042203.htm   (13431 words)      Arpads The seniority principle was replaced by the primogeniture, which led to struggles for the throne in 997-1163. Peter Urseolo, supported by the German king Henry III, was expelled by the brothers Andrew and Béla, who returned to Hungary from abroad. In 1060, Béla returned to Hungary and defeated King Andrew I. The wounded Andrew sent his son Solomon to Germany and then died (in 1061). http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/arpads   (13431 words)      North South Praise this in principle and ridicule it in practice. No American has ever mentioned anywhere in England north of Cambridge or Stratford, so don't prompt them. If compelled to write of the integrated Muslim community in Shields, mention 'refineries, smoke-stacks and gas-towers'. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/alan.myers/ns.html   (20652 words)      ATMG - Greek question This policy has been severely criticised by many senior British Members of Parliament as being contrary to the principle of natural justice that both sides of the case must have an equal hearing, and as having no basis in law or common sense. The neutral President of the Court (a German citizen) resigned and the rule of law in Cyprus collapsed. In February 1963 (Cyprus Mail 12.2.63) Archbishop Makarios declared on behalf of the Greek Cypriots that if the Court ruled against them they would ignore it. http://www.atmg.org/GreekProblem.html   (16524 words)      Peter J Mancus - Letter to his local authorities Brennan and Chief Pitter expressed a willingness to make training in the Nuremberg Principle part of the curriculum for all Sebastopol Police Officers. Peter J Mancus - Letter to his local authorities On the positive side, I had one lengthy in person meeting with City Manager David Brennan and Police Chief Gordon Pitter. http://www.ninehundred.com/~equalccw/peter   (16524 words)      CEELI - Slovakia Significant Legal Developments - October 2002 The ICJ, sometimes referred to as the World Court, is the principle judicial organ of the United Nations and is comprised of a total of fifteen judges. Judge Peter Tomka of Slovakia was among the five, and he is slated to start his term on February 6, 2003. The Hague, October 2002 (ICJ Press Release) On October 21, 2002, the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations elected five new members to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). http://www.abanet.org/ceeli/countries/slovakia/oct2002.html   (1085 words)      GATT ACHIEVES CONSENSUS OVER SUTHERLAND The 'peter principle', playing on Sutherland's first name, is the reference to the view about the British bureaucracy that people inside it get promoted automatically until they reach their level of incompetence. Tran Van-Thinh, the EC Commission's Chief GATT delegate told newsmen that the GATT's consensus decision-making process had succeeded and that when the minority saw the majority view, it yielded to the majority view. The appointment of Sutherland will be formally approved by the GATT CONTRACTING PARTIES at a Special Session Wednesday afternoon. http://www.sunsonline.org/trade/process/during/06090093.htm   (630 words)      Press releases: BHB Taking a strategic view, and recognising the benefits to the Tote, BHB opposed a reference of Ladbrokes unconditional acquisition of Coral to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, and in principle supported the merger in evidence to the MMC when it was referred. A year in which the Chairmanship baton passed from John Wakeham via Tommy Pilkington to Peter Savill, whose unanimous election by his colleagues in May put the final seal on the unity within the industry which remains a prerequisite to real and sustained progress being made on the key financial issues. Twelve months ago, Peter Jones and his colleagues had conditional agreement to an acquisition which would have increased the Tote's presence in the highly profitable High Street market by over 60%. http://www.britishhorseracing.com/inside_horseracing/media/2.5.1.1.1.asp?item=000227   (2791 words)      The Scotsman - Opinion - Pillar of the establishment He has been a minister, at both the Scottish Office and the Department of Trade and Industry, and even achieved the political kudos of resigning on principle. He walked away from his position as deputy leader of the House of Lords in 1998, in protest at the treatment of his boss, Viscount Cranborne, by the then Tory party leader, William Hague. He was called to the Scottish Bar in 1969, became Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1982, the same year as he became a QC, and in 1989 he became Lord Advocate. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1010492003   (2791 words)      Tomis Kapitan's Home Page In 1946 Akram Zuaiter, a prominent Palestinian politician, appealed to self-determination as a moral principle, insisting that Palestinians have a "natural right" to self-governance that is not dependent upon the promises of the British, the Americans, or international bodies (Zuaiter 1994, 272). The philosopher W.T. Stace argued in the same vein: self-determination provides "the only "abstract" or "moral" principle which is needed for the adjudication of the Palestine controversy," and it "will not be outdated a year from now or in fifty years" (Stace 1947, 83). Peters' book was immediately debunked by critics such as Yehoshua Porath, Edward Said, and Albert Hourani, and more recently in McCarthy 1990 and Finkelstein 1995. http://www.niu.edu/phil/~kapitan/history.shtml   (2791 words)      Timeline 1841-1849 He and Charles Saunders Pierce first developed the ideas of pragmatism, the principle that the meaning of an idea was to be found in the examination of its consequences in action. They were William Henry Harrison, the 9th president, who died one month after his inauguration in 1841; the 20th president, James Garfield, who was assassinated in 1881; William McKinley, the 25th president, who was assassinated in 1901; and Warren G. Harding, who died suddenly in 1923. 1841 Apr 4, President William Henry Harrison (68), 9th President of the US, succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office. http://timelines.ws/1841_1849.HTML   (2791 words)      OFF-DUTY CONDUCT by Lloyd Hobbs from the April 2000 issue of the NLTA Bulletin Justice Peter DeCarteret Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada addressed the principle of Freedom of Expression as it relates to teachers. While speaking at a conference of the Canadian Association for the Practical Study of Law in Education in Toronto in April 1999, the Honourable Mr. The comments of the Supreme Court Justices set a benchmark by which teachers' actions are evaluated. http://www.nlta.nf.ca/HTML_files/html_pages/publications/bulletins/april00/apr00duty.html   (2791 words)      C.htm Coughlin, Peter J. "Rights and the Private Pareto Principle"; Economica ; Vol. Coughlin, Peter J. Probabilistic Voting Theory ; Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; 1992; #2225. Coughlan, Peter J. ; "In Defense of Unanimous Jury Verdicts: Mistrials, Communication, and Strategic Voting"; American Political Science Review ; Vol. http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/faculty/jskelly/C.htm   (2791 words)      C.htm Coughlin, Peter J. "Rights and the Private Pareto Principle"; Economica; Vol. Coughlin, Peter J. Probabilistic Voting Theory; Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; 1992; #2225. Coughlin, Peter J. "Candidate Uncertainty and Electoral Equilibria"; Advances in the Spatial Theory of Voting; edited by James M. Enelow and Melvin J. Hinich; Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; 1990; 145-166; #2807. http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/faculty/jskelly/C.htm   (6292 words)      Nat'l Academies Press, In War and Peace: (2002), page 328, in chapter Notes These included Senators Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.), Hugh Scott (R-Pa.), Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Peter H. Dominick (R-Colo.), Richard S. Schweiker (R-Pa.), Harrison Williams (D-N.J.), Russell Long (D-La.), and Allan J. Ellender (D-La.). Other agencies—the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Naval Research, and the research programs of the Atomic Energy Commission—all used the principle to varying extent. Senator Williams chaired the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare that conducted my nomination hearing on November 30, 1971. http://books.nap.edu/books/0309084113/html/328.html   (6292 words)      Peter Kropotkin's Anarchist Communism - Jon Bekken Kropotkin found the notion that workers should be confined to a single repetitious activity a "horrible principle, so noxious to society, so brutalising to the individual..." The Social Revolution must abolish the separation between manual and brain work, give workers control of their workplaces, abolish wage labour. But a society not built upon communist principles would inevitably succumb to the central power it established to oversee production and distribution. But such a worker "would lose all interest in his work [and] would be entirely at the mercy of his employer with his limited handicraft." http://www.zabalaza.net/texts/txt_pks_ac_jb.htm   (1864 words)      102403A An open letter to Peter MacKay Yet, Peter, you have, without authority, signed an agreement in principle that allows PC party members to be overwhelmed by Alliance members (who outnumber us 9 to 1) in a new party. Peter, I do not want an elected Senate. A veteran Progressive Conservative party MP writes to party Leader Peter MacKay about the proposed Tory-Canadian Alliance merger. http://www.notacolony.ca/2003news/1003news/102403A%20An%20open%20letter%20to%20Peter%20MacKay.htm   (830 words)      Peace Bibliography R-Z Wierzbicki, Alfred M., The Ethics for Struggle for Liberation: Towards a Personalistic Interpretation of the Principle of Non-Violence, Peter lang, NYC, 1992. -----, Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World, with collaboration of William Antholis et al., Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1993. Selective Service System, Backgrounds of Selective Service, Special Monograph No. 1, Volume I: An Historical Review of the Principle of the Citizen Compulsion in the Raising of Armies, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1947. http://www.centeronconscience.org/biblio_R-Z.htm   (10969 words)      Peter A. Kropotkin / Biography He argued that the principles of 'self-interest" and 'survival of the fittest" were Darwinian distortions of human nature, and that the principle of "mutual aid" was the fundamental drive of human nature and social evolution. Kropotkin, born into the Russian nobility, was known as the "Anarchist Prince." He eschewed authority of any kind and, like fellow anarchist Bakunin, advocated spontaneous and communal action to displace the authority of the State. http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/kropotkinbio.html   (254 words)      Tax/Benefit Reform: Social Dividends and Flat Taxes Indications are that the principle of benefit conditionality will be reinforced, leading to a further departure from the commitment to a universal welfare state as envisioned by the First Labour Government and by the Thaddeus McCarthy Commission in 1972. In his budget on June 26, Winston Peters is expected to announce plans to restructure the income support system. Winston Peters, as Treasurer, could save money by simply cutting out the red tape associated with the many different ways the present social dividend is paid out. http://keithrankin.co.nz/krnknsocdiv.html   (254 words)      USATODAY.com - In this house, 'stuff for stuff's sake' has no place Walsh subscribes to the "golden triangle" principle of kitchen design, grouping the range, sink and refrigerator for easy use. Walsh bought his 1959 post-and-beam house four years ago and quickly set about remodeling. Walsh became a teacher in Australia and earned a master's in educational psychology. http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2005-04-21-at-home-walsh_x.htm   (254 words)

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