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A 1990 article for the Cato Institute identifies Singer as the director of the science and environmental policy project at the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, on leave from the University of Virginia.
* Exchange between Schneider and Richard Lindzen is no longer available on the Cato Institute web site, but is available on the Internet Archive
* February 23 – The Cato Street conspiracy is exposed in England ; the principals are executed on May 1.
O ' Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me !.
Still others, such as the Cato Institute, promote libertarian social and economic theories based on Friedrich von Hayek's idea of free markets and individual liberty.
* April 14 – First performance, in London, of Joseph Addison's libertarian play Cato, a Tragedy, which will be influential on both sides of the Atlantic.
Some libertarian groups, such as the Cato Institute, criticize smart growth on the grounds that it leads to greatly increased land values, and people with average incomes can no longer afford to buy detached houses.
In Rome, writers and philosophers like Cicero, Seneca, Pliny the elder, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Cato and Collumella also expressed important ideas on this ground.
Dioscorides listed horseradish under Thlaspi or Persicon ; Cato discusses the plant in his treatises on agriculture, and a mural in Pompeii shows the plant.
For instance, the important Anti-Federalist authors " Cato " and " Brutus " debuted in New York papers on September 27 and October 18, 1787, respectively.
According to the Cato Institute, the U. S. federal government will spend almost $ 100 billion on corporate welfare during fiscal year 2012.
* Basilica Porcia: first basilica built in Rome ( 184 BC ), erected on the personal initiative and financing of the censor Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Elder ) as an official building for the tribunes of the plebs
According to Appian the senator Cato the Elder usually finished his speeches on any subject in the Senate with the phrase ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam, which means " Furthermore, it is my opinion that Carthage must be destroyed ".
* During his time in Carthage, Cato is so struck by the evidence of Carthaginian prosperity that he is convinced that the security of Rome now depends on the annihilation of Carthage.
From this time on, Cato keeps repeating the cry " Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam " (" Moreover, I advise that Carthage must be destroyed ") at the end of all his speeches, no matter what subject they concern.
* TESTIMONY of Stephen Moore Director of Fiscal Policy Studies The Cato Institute before the Committee on Judiciary U. S. House of Representatives-THE CATO INSTITUTE-March 23, 2000
In 1984 the Australian television mini-series, All the Rivers Run, based on a novel by Nancy Cato and starring Sigrid Thornton and John Waters, was filmed in and around Echuca.
In the novel Labyrinth of Evil, Gunray returns to his home on Cato Neimoidia to plunder what wealth he can, while being pursued by Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The exaggerated age, however, is inconsistent with a statement recorded by Plutarch on the asserted authority of Cato himself.
Two years later, Cato was one of the select group who went with the consul Claudius Nero on his northern march from Lucania to check the progress of Hasdrubal Barca.
It is recorded that the services of Cato contributed to the decisive victory of Sena on the Metaurus, where Hasdrubal was slain.
When Scipio, acting on the consent which, after much opposition, he had obtained from the senate, transported the armed forces from Sicily into Africa, Cato and Gaius Laelius were appointed to escort the baggage ships.
However true the facts may be, Cato successfully proved himself by his eloquence, and by the production of detailed financial accounts, against the attacks made on his behavior while consul ; and the existing fragments of the speeches, ( or the same speech under different names ), made after his return, attest the strength and boldness of his arguments.

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Pompey's two sons, Gnaeus and Sextus, and the Pompeian faction, led now by Metellus Scipio and Cato, survived and fought for their cause in the name of Pompey the Great.
He asked the senate for permission to stand in absentia, but Cato blocked the proposal.
The election was sordid – even Cato, with his reputation for incorruptibility, is said to have resorted to bribery in favor of one of Caesar's opponents.
Friedman allowed the Cato Institute to use his name for its biannual Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty beginning in 2001.
Laar won the 2006 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, awarded by the Cato Institute.
Though Vegetius had no military experience, and De re militari was derived from the works of Cato and Frontinus, his books were the standard for military discourse in western Europe from their production until the 16th century.
* a designation for Cato the Elder ( 234 BC – 149 BC ), a Roman statesman
Expecting an easy victory for the SVLP in 1984, Cato called early elections.
* May 1 – The last hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain is meted out to the Cato Street conspirators for treason ( only hanged and beheaded ).
Caesar then accepted him into his inner circle and made him governor of Gaul when he left for Africa in pursuit of Cato and Metellus Scipio.
* Chapter 9, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition ( 2009 ).
The drunk driver of the van, Robert Cato, was sentenced to a three-year prison term for drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter in the accident.
* DiLorenzo, Thomas Cato Handbook for Congress, Antitrust.
During Pope's friendship with Joseph Addison, he contributed to Addison's play Cato, as well as writing for The Guardian and The Spectator.
* Cato Policy Report-A Plea for ( Mild ) Deflation
* Cato the younger is elected tribune of the people for 62 BC, taking office in early December 63 BC.
In his fourth and final argument, which took place in the Temple of Concordia, Cicero establishes a basis for other orators ( primarily Cato ) to argue for the execution of the conspirators.
* At Polybius ' request, Scipio Aemilianus manages to gain the support of the Roman statesman Cato the Elder ( whose son has married Scipio's sister Aemilia ) for a proposal to release ( and return to Greece ) the 300 Achaean internees who are still being held without trial after being deported to Rome in 167 BC.

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