Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.

A top American official, after a look at Europe's factories, thinks the U.S. is in a `` very serious situation '' competitively.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

Nearby on Tauentzienstraße is KaDeWe, claimed to be continental Europe's largest department store.

Barcelona is the transport hub with one of Europe's principal ports, Barcelona international airport, which handles above 34 million passengers per year, extensive motorway network and also is a hub of high-speed rail, particularly that which is intended to link Spain with France and the rest of Europe as the second longest in the world.

Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30 – 60 percent of Europe's population.

Dublin has a vibrant nightlife and is reputedly one of Europe's most youthful cities, with an estimate of 50 % of citizens being younger than 25.

Of Europe's approximately 50 states, Russia is by far the largest by both area and population, taking up 40 % of the continent ( although the country has territory in both Europe and Asia ), while the Vatican City is the smallest.

Europe is now generally defined by geographers as the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, with its boundaries marked by large bodies of water to the north, west and south ; Europe's limits to the far east are usually taken to be the Urals, the Ural River, and the Caspian Sea ; to the south-east, including the Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea and the waterways connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

France is one of Europe's largest markets.

* Hoge Raad voor Diamant ( HRD Antwerp ), The Diamond High Council, Belgium is one of Europe's oldest laboratories.

The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30 – 60 percent of Europe's population in the 14th century.

It is Central Europe's largest freshwater lake and an important recreation area.

Hungary's total land area is 93, 030 km < sup > 2 </ sup > along with 690 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of water surface area which altogether makes up 1 % of Europe's area.

Lake Balaton is Central Europe's largest lake and a prosperous tourist spot and recreation area.

Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king, is not a well documented figure, his greatest achievement being certainly to survive as king and defeating the Carolingian claimant, thus allowing him to establish what would become one of Europe's most powerful house of kings.

At the centre of the Nouveau Jardin is Europe's highest garden fountain.

London is Europe's leading centre for hedge fund managers, with 70 % of European hedge fund investments, about US $ 395 billion, at the end of 2011.

However, the biggest chunk of Italian public debt is owned by national subjects, and relatively high levels of private savings and low levels of private indebtedness are seen as making it the safest among Europe's struggling economies.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan said, `` I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two ''.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

* 2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States ; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed.

Prices may diverge during a financial crisis, often termed a " flight to quality "; these are precisely the times when it is hardest for leveraged investors to raise capital ( due to overall capital constraints ), and thus they will lack capital precisely when they need it most.

Diamond is among the hardest materials known, while graphite is soft enough to form a streak on paper ( hence its name, from the Greek word " to write ").

For example, diamond is among the hardest substances known, while graphite is so soft that it is used as a lubricant.

Dives in the straight position are hardest, since there is almost no scope for altering the speed, so the angular momentum must be created at take-off with a very high degree of accuracy.

In this way, great strength is not needed to produce a force strong enough to bend steel, or crack the hardest stone.

The hardness of a material is measured against the scale by finding the hardest material that the given material can scratch, and / or the softest material that can scratch the given material.

The complexity class P is contained in NP, but NP contains many important problems, the hardest of which are called NP-complete problems, for which no polynomial-time algorithms are known for solving them ( although they can be verified in polynomial time ).

The hardest part of the summer is then over, but cooler weather does not come until late October.

While easy to grasp in principle, this is the hardest idea to understand about general relativity, and its consequences are profound and not fully explored, even at the classical level.

Tungsten is mainly used in the production of hard materials based on tungsten carbide, one of the hardest carbides, with a melting point of 2770 ° C.

Chemists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States have developed a tantalum carbide-graphite composite material that is one of the hardest materials ever synthesized.

* An important English dictionary is published by Dr. John Bullokar with the title An English Expositour teaching the Interpretation of the hardest Words used in our Language with sundry Explications, Descriptions and Discourses.

Some commentators compare the proposed American oil-shale industry to the Athabasca oil-sands industry ( the latter enterprise generated over of oil per day in late 2007 ), stating that " the first-generation facility is the hardest, both technically and economically ".

In " That Which Survives ", the alloy of diburnium and osmium is stated to be the hardest alloy known to the Federation.

NP-hard ( non-deterministic polynomial-time hard ), in computational complexity theory, is a class of problems that are, informally, " at least as hard as the hardest problems in NP ".

* Since L is NP-complete, and hence the hardest in class NP, also problem H is at least as hard as NP, but H does not have to be in NP and hence does not have to be a decision problem ( even if it is a decision problem, it need not be in NP );

In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit ; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have different meanings.

The method of transmitting sound resonance to the cone is either a " biscuit " bridge, made of a small piece of hardwood at the vertex of the cone ( Nationals ), or a " spider " bridge, made of metal and mounted around the rim of the ( inverted ) cone ( Dobros ).

When a dog is first taught to sit, it is given a biscuit.

This is repeated until, finally, the dog sits without requiring a biscuit.

Chowder is usually thickened with broken up crackers, but some varieties are traditionally thickened with crushed ship biscuit.

It is then powdered into flour and turned into dough to either make a fired or baked biscuit.

Beschuit is a typical Dutch type of biscuit, muisjes are sugared anise seeds.

Traditional biscuits include Traou Mad, which is a full-fat butter biscuit, similar to Scottish shortbread.

The name Dobro is generically associated with the single-inverted-cone resonator design, as opposed to the tricone and biscuit designs, which are both similarly associated with the National brand.

Other popular Australian foods include Tim Tams, a chocolate biscuit ; musk sticks ; fairy bread which is buttered bread with coloured sugar ( tasting similar to store bought bread in the USA ); lamingtons ; and the commercial breakfast cereal Weet-Bix.

An Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit popular in Australia and New Zealand made using rolled oats, flour, desiccated coconut, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking soda and boiling water.

A British ( though still Australian-produced ) version of the Anzac biscuit, supporting the Royal British Legion, is available in several major supermarket chains in the UK.

Another architecturally interesting building is the so-called " Clădirea biscuite " ( the biscuit building ).

* Biscuit joints: A small ' biscuit ' is used to help align an edge or butt joint when gluing.

The Basler Läckerli is a hard biscuit made of honey, almonds, candied peel and Kirsch and is enjoyed as a speciality all year round.

The Caribbean sand dollar or inflated sea biscuit, Clypeaster rosaceus, is thicker in height than most.

Seabiscuit was named for his father, as hardtack or " sea biscuit " is the name for a type of cracker eaten by sailors.

The Tunnock's teacake is commonly regarded in the same food category as the British biscuit, eaten at break times with a cup of tea as shown in advertising for the product.

The argument about whether the teacake is a biscuit or a cake led to an action in the European Court of Justice by British company Marks and Spencer who argued that it had wrongly been classed as a biscuit and taxed by the UK government as such.