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is and current
But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.
Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.
What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.
It follows that the solution to the current disunity of the free nations is only to a very limited extent a matter of devising new machinery of consultation and coordination.
With our current $3 per hundred tax rate, it is safe to assume that this will qualify when you suggest a community should `` try to develop a modest industrial plant '' as the best way to meet these problems.
In this hour of crisis, the wisdom, the dedication, the stabilizing force that he represents in current American government is an almost indispensable source of strength.
Borrowing in anticipation of current taxes and other revenues is a routine procedure of the majority of municipalities at all times.
This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.
Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.
However, its modern one-story layout is designed to increase our production capacity, permit more efficient manufacturing, and substantially reduce current repair and maintenance costs.
Of current interest is Abilene, Kansas, the birthplace of ex-President Eisenhower.
Considering that the current school-age potential is 23 million youths, the project and its message on hunting and shooting education have many more to reach.
There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.
The pressure gradient producing the jet is due to the nature of the magnetic field in the arc ( rapid decrease of current density from cathode to the anode ).
That we are experiencing an upsurge of interest in the many formulations and preventive adaptations of brief treatment in social casework is evident from even a small sampling of current literature.
It is still used in making current population estimates in post-census years, though the value of these estimates is open to question.
While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.
Moreover, the current information on what types of training are needed and possible is too limited and fragmentary.
This is not extended to anticipated levels of GNP, however -- only the current level of GNP affects the public pressure against wage-price increases.
electricity plays such an important part in community life today that it is difficult to envision a time when current was not available for daily use.
It is to be hoped that some way will be found to keep this important work current.
In general, P is a function of V and the current density, but it shall here be assumed as a constant.
The operator must continually supply the correct amount of turning current to the gyro torquers so that the effect of gyro drift is canceled.
If the Z gyro is drifting, a current generated by the autocollimator is delivered to the gyro torquer to cancel the drift.

is and Patrician
* Petronius Maximus, prominent aristocrat, is given the title of Patrician.
Patrician Academy is a private school ( grades preK through 12 ) located in Butler.
The Archchancellor is considered an important figure and holds a seat on the Ankh-Morpork council ( although this council itself has no power either ), in which he acts as a magical advisor to the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork.
The Patrician observes that Vimes is anti-authoritarian even though he is, himself, an authority figure, which is " practically Zen ".
Shortly after, Vimes is imprisoned in the same cell as the Patrician, who has been leading a relatively comfortable life with the help of the rats he uses as spies.
The Patrician is reinstated as ruler of Ankh-Morpork, and offers the Watch anything they want as a reward.
Havelock Vetinari, Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a series of over thirty books describing a parallel universe whose main world has reflections of-even more or less subtle jokes about-our ' Roundworld ' or Earth.
He also carefully arranges matters so that a reality which includes him as Patrician is slightly better than one which does not, with the result being that the only two people who may potentially benefit from his death are claimants to the extant throne of Ankh and their associates.
Ironfoundersson is noted by Vimes to be one of the few people who actually like the Patrician, and Vimes, while adamant that he doesn't, shares the dedication to the city felt by Vetinari and Ironfoundersson.
The Assassins ' Guild no longer accepts contracts on the Patrician – he is the only person besides Samuel Vimes to have been taken off the register.
Currently in his late forties / early fifties ( Sam Vimes noted in Feet of Clay that the Patrician was about the same age as him, and it is shown in Night Watch that he was a student Assassin at the time of the main events of the book, when Vimes was 16 ), Lord Vetinari is tall, thin and dresses all in dusty black, including a black skullcap.
In The Colour of Magic, Rincewind is brought before " the Patrician " but it is not clear whether this Patrician is Vetinari or his predecessor, Mad Lord Snapcase, or possibly even Homicidal Lord Winder, although the description of this Patrician does not seem to tally with that of Vetinari, as the Patrician in question is, for example, described as obese – a trait his two predecessors did possess, but which he lacks.

is and Ankh-Morpork
Death, in turn, yearns to relish what being human is truly like and travels to Ankh-Morpork to indulge in new experiences and attempt to feel real human emotion.
* Ankh-Morpork, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, is referred to as " the twin cities of proud Ankh and pestilent Morpork "
In the fictional " Discworld " novels, the main city is called Ankh-Morpork and has moreporks on its coat-of-arms.
Located in the city of Ankh-Morpork, the UU is staffed by a faculty composed of mostly indolent and inept old wizards.
The Tower of Art is also the motif of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office one-dollar stamp.
The Bursar's insanity has become a byword in Ankh-Morpork ; " to go Bursar " is " to go crazy.
Since necromancy is officially banned in Ankh-Morpork, he is instead the Head of the Department of Post Mortem Communications ( although he acknowledges this is just a fancy way of saying necromancy ).
Another example is a series of Ankh-Morpork stamps created to publicise the Discworld novel Going Postal.
In Ankh-Morpork, a Klatchian Prince named Khufurah is parading through Ankh-Morpork, where he will be presented with a Degree in Sweet Fanny Adams ( Doctorum Adamus cum Flabello Dulci ), but an assassination attempt occurs, and the Prince is wounded.
Vimes then recruits the Watch into his own private army regiment, reasoning that, as an official noble, he is entitled to do so by law and by Lord Rust's command, with the group remaining independent as knights legally fall under command of the king or his duly-appointed representatives, neither of which exist in Ankh-Morpork.
Vetinari is returned to Ankh-Morpork, under arrest and in disgrace, but as Leshp has vanished back under the sea again, the treaty was to be signed in a non-existent territory and thus the charge of treason is invalid.
Since Carrot is, of course, very much not the King of Ankh-Morpork his reminding of Vetinari is all that is required for Vimes to get his new position and rank.
It is explained that, had Vimes reacted slightly differently in the beginning-staying in Ankh-Morpork rather than attempting to follow Ahmed and rescue Angua -, the whole history of the Ankh-Morpork VS Klatch war would have gone very differently.
Several foundlings appear in Terry Pratchett's Discworld: most notably Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson ( found as a toddler among the ruins of a caravan party attacked by bandits, surrounded by the bodies of the adults ; Carrot was adopted and raised by the dwarfs who discovered him, and was surprised to learn at age 16-and 6ft 6in tall-that he was not a dwarf ; mounting evidence suggests that Carrot is the scion of the deposed Ankh-Morpork royal family, but he himself has suppressed this as much as possible, considering the role of police captain to be a preferable one in which to safeguard his city and keep order ), also Tomjohn ( rightful heir to the throne of Lancre, rescued from his father's killer by loyal servants, entrusted to the local witches and given to travelling actors to raise ; Tomjohn eventually returns to the kingdom, but does not wish to rule it, preferring to remain an actor ) and Keith ( The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents-ironically, Malicia, obsessed with fairytales, is certain that this makes him likely to be a prince, but Keith explains that it is common in the city to abandon babies outside the Guilds where they are likely to receive care and training in a trade ).

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