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28 Sep 2011, 9:40 pm
And each time, he felt what he calls “the executioner high,” an adrenalized state that always imparted a merciful unreality as he sat behind a curtain and pulled the lever, releasing a fatal cocktail of three drugs that seemed to him less humane than the electricity he previously unleashed by pulling a switch. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 10:51 am
” Unlike leftists, its adherents are not seeking to gain the levers of power to build a utopia. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 6:45 pm
They can have higher-than-allowed levels of lead in the brake and clutch levers, the valve stems on tires, the battery and the steel molding that holds the engine together. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 7:02 pm
The point isn’t to spotlight individuals, but to show how foreign nationals from a state that still bans Facebook have their hands on the levers of social media censorship here in America. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 12:00 pm
If we concede, as seems reasonable, that the Chinese government did not deliberately create this virus and was taken by surprise when it arose, then we are also obliged to respect their ruthless ingenuity in levering upon the severity of their dictatorship and their official indifference to domestic humanitarian problems in inflicting the coronavirus on the world and thoroughly exploiting the humanitarian sensibility and vulnerability of the western countries. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 8:18 am
The operator of the excavator turned back to situate himself in the seat when a piece of his clothing caught a lever, which controlled the bucket on the excavator. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 12:37 pm
TITLE 1 D664,630 Tank lever 2 8,234,067 Methods and apparatus for swarm navigation of multiple agents 3 8,233,748 Image-resolution-improvement apparatus and method 4 8,233,682 Methods and systems for improving spatial and temporal resolution of computed images of moving objects 5 8,232,301 Pesticidal compositions 6 8,232,289 Spiropiperidine compounds as ORL-1 receptor… [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 5:44 pm
And while material offerings are the easiest levers to pull (you can decide to give a bonus tomorrow) and are immediately appreciated, they’re easy for competitors to imitate, and their impact on employee retention is the least enduring. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 11:59 pm
The lever many firms will look to pull, will be the big red salary one – paying premium wages for the best talent, and making a business case on the basis of the work these lawyers will not only service but help bring in. [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 12:00 am
This article’s central thesis is that the full devolution of powers is one of the significant levers of constitutional transformation in Zimbabwe. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 2:09 pm
An expert testified that Mehserle would have had to push down and forward on a holster, then pull back a lever to fire the weapon. [read post]
12 May 2015, 6:15 am
To this end, our research exploits an exogenous variation in the allocation of bargaining power between shareholders and debtholders due to the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform Act to examine how the ex post allocation of cash flows in distress affects the ex ante pricing (return and risk) of corporate securities, such as risky debt and levered equity. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 4:25 pm
Democracy doesn’t happen in places where voices are stifled and powerful levers are used to shut people up.Tech giants now believe they have sufficient wisdom to approve or deny which messages can circulate on social media. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 6:05 am
"And here's a passage from today's Politico's Playbook that describes Speaker Boehner's attempts to cajole his members into rallying behind his proposal (which it appears isn't going to get the requisite partisan support): "With earmarks gone, leaders have fewer levers. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 3:00 am
Who will control the levers of power in 2013? [read post]
4 Mar 2018, 7:52 am
When risks are unknown or unknowable, all of the extant policy levers for addressing risk externalization are incomplete, have potentially undesirable side effects when applied broadly, or perform poorly. [read post]
6 May 2010, 6:15 am
We can use the mechanism of trade, the WTO in particular, as a lever to try to get great freedom in the market place of ideas and info as well as the marketplace of goods and services. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 7:01 am
Here’s the Thursday morning read: Conservative Activist Poured Millions Into Groups Seeking to Influence Supreme Court on Elections and Discrimination (Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Andrew Perez & Aditi Ramaswami, The Lever) Leonard Leo has reshaped the Supreme Court. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 9:38 pm
This is my old favorite espresso maker, which has been my tried and true companion for the last 20 years, and will doubtless still work a century from now.It has a lever, a water depository, a heating element, a cavity into which one packs finely ground coffee, and two holes through which the heavenly crema is expressed. [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 3:53 am
It is also driven by direct competition for the levers of judicial power. [read post]
