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Cottard and make
In the novel, they are represented by Cottard, who welcomes the plague and uses the economic deprivation that results from it to make a fortune buying and selling on the black market.

Cottard and by
Cottard is distressed by the ending of the epidemic, from which he has profited by shady dealings.

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He tried but failed to write a letter to her, and he still grieves for his loss .</ br > Grand is a neighbor of Cottard, and it is he who calls Rieux for help, when Cottard tries to commit suicide.

Cottard and .
Cottard, a criminal remorseful enough to attempt suicide yet fearful of being arrested, becomes wealthy as a major smuggler.
Cottard, on the other hand, seems to flourish during the plague, because it gives him a sense of being connected to others, since everybody faces the same danger.
Cottard and Tarrou attend a performance of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice, but the actor portraying Orpheus collapses with plague symptoms during the performance.
Cottard goes mad and shoots at people from his home.
* Cottard: Cottard lives in the same building as Grand.
" Cottard is an eccentric figure, silent and secretive, who tries to hang himself in his room.
Jules Cotard served as the real life model for the character of Dr. Cottard in the Marcel Proust novel In Search of Lost Time.
* Mme Cottard, client of Lesage ; admonished and fined.

takes and advantage
Regulatory arbitrage is where a regulated institution takes advantage of the difference between its real ( or economic ) risk and the regulatory position.
Although Beavis and Butt-Head greatly admire him and aspire to join his " gang ," Todd despises the two and frequently beats them up and takes advantage of them when he needs something, such as money, food or a place to hide from other gangs or the police.
As described in the introduction, BCD takes advantage of the fact that any one decimal numeral can be represented by a four bit pattern:
Because the process takes advantage of the nonlinearity of the isotherms, a larger column feed can be separated on a given column with the purified components recovered at significantly higher concentrations.
President Kennedy recognized this: “ The advantage is, from Khrushchev ’ s point of view, he takes a great chance but there are quite some rewards to it .”
An exploit ( from the verb to exploit, in the meaning of using something to one ’ s own advantage ) is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behaviour to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic ( usually computerised ).
He repeatedly takes advantage of K .' s preoccupation with the trial to advance his own ambitions.
Gel electrophoresis research often takes advantage of software-based image analysis tools, such as ImageJ.
This takes advantage of the format's lossless compression, which favors flat areas of uniform color with well defined edges.
Lucilla takes advantage of Murbella's exhaustion to knock her unconscious and rescue Duncan.
This technique takes advantage of this to help execute a strike.
::" And Be Merry " ( Eat Drink and Be Merry for Tomorrow We Die ) A lab biologist, female, takes advantage of her husband going off on an archeology trip, to use the privacy to experiment on herself for rejuvenation by a severe and dangerous method.
Many small cities in Northern Michigan and Door County, Wisconsin are centered on a tourist base that takes advantage of the beauty and recreational opportunities offered by Lake Michigan.
The club takes advantage of this support through its worldwide summer tours.
The club takes advantage of this support through its worldwide summer tours.
However, he is not above selling out his employers if it means a big payoff, a fact which Edison Carter takes advantage of on several occasions while working on stories.
Actual mechanical advantage takes into consideration real world factors such as energy lost in friction.
This method takes advantage of the other party ’ s desire to close by adding “ just one more thing .”
There is also a Wordpress plugin available, called wp-enigform-authentication, that takes advantage of the session management features of Enigform with mod_openpgp.
Subpixel rendering is a technology which takes advantage of these differences to improve the rendering of text on LCD screens.
Bacon describes a cycle-collection algorithm for reference counting systems with some similarities to tracing systems, including the same theoretical time bounds, but that takes advantage of reference count information to run much more quickly and with less cache damage.
* Raphaël is another JavaScript library that takes advantage of the intersection between VML's and SVG's features to create vector graphics and animate them.
A recent innovation in Trojan horse code takes advantage of a security flaw in older versions of Internet Explorer and Google Chrome to use the host computer as an anonymizer proxy to effectively hide internet usage.

takes and crisis
The madness that is a side effect of Venom takes hold, and during the ensuing fight with Superman and Batman, Luthor admits he had traded the creature Doomsday to Darkseid in return for weapons during the Our Worlds at War crisis ; in doing so, he inadvertently provides a confession which is captured on video by Batman.
* 1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages ( 53 of whom are American ).
But game theory had a little crisis: it could not find a strategy for a simple game called " The Prisoner's Dilemma " ( PD ) where two players have the option to cooperate for mutual gain, but each also takes a risk of being suckered.
* The British government takes emergency powers to deal with the balance-of-payments crisis.
Brian then takes Alan to ' Mr Nigel's shop ', where Alan's middle-aged style crisis goes from bad to worse as he purchases an extremely bold Hawaiian shirt.
In the film, a major nuclear plant crisis takes place while Fonda's character and her cameraman ( Michael Douglas ) are at the plant producing a series on nuclear power.
" A man's home is his castle " is translated in Gor as, " Every man is an Ubar within the circle of his sword " ( The Ubar is a war-leader, a General who takes power at a time of crisis, and whose rule is tantamount to tyrant until the crisis is resolved.
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Minister Fudge takes a long while to respond to the attacks on Hogwarts ( however it could be argued that Fudge was willing to give Albus Dumbledore a fair chance to deal with the crisis within his ( Dumbledore's ) own power ).
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority.
An interesting feature worthy to be discussed is that the Italian system takes in consideration also the economic situation of the employers, and aims as well at relieving them from the costs of crisis.
She takes her husband's place in the Illuminati when Iron Man reassembles the team in response to the Hood's attempts to acquire the Infinity Gems, although in the end Steve Rogers takes ' custody ' of Black Bolt's gem at the conclusion of the crisis.
Often it takes a crisis to precipitate attention to CSR.
Gilgi is a structured and ordered person at the beginning, living with her parents ; she takes English, Spanish and French language classes overnight, so that she is less likely to be unemployed in the mounting unemployment crisis.
This typically only takes place during crisis situations in the SOUTHCOM Area of Responsibility.
Following the turn of the 20th to 21st century, specifically during the late-2000s financial crisis, many politicians and pundits, such as Gordon Brown, and Henry Kissinger, used the term " new world order " in their advocacy for a comprehensive reform of the global financial system and their calls for a " New Bretton Woods ", which takes into account emerging markets such as China and India.
* 1895: The BNZ takes over the Colonial Bank, which was in crisis
When an NSSE is declared, the Secret Service becomes the lead agency for the security planning for the event ; the FBI takes lead responsibility for counterterrorism, counterintelligence, criminal investigations ; and FEMA takes lead responsibility for crisis management.
Jaffeir's honour takes precedence over Belvidera, and the tension over love and honour is the male characters ' crisis.
Foner takes note of political scientist Ronald Suny's opinion that the current crisis ( in 1990 ) that the Soviet Union was facing with respect to these states “ reflect the failure of Soviet nationality policy ” which served to “ strengthen nationalism in the republics, while the fate of minorities within those political units became extremely problematic .”
His most recent work The Enigma of Capital ( 2010 ) takes a long view of the current economic crisis.
The inflows sharply reverse once capital flight takes places after the crisis occurs.

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