The false Notary echoes a long line of false officials as operatic devices.

* The composer Antonio Salieri wrote the opera buffa Falstaff ( 1799 ), with a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, which also adapts the main story line of The Merry Wives of Windsor for the operatic stage.

Like other French operas of the period, Lakmé captures the ambience of the Orient seen through Western eyes, which was periodically in vogue during the latter part of the nineteenth century, in line with other operatic works such as Bizet's The Pearl Fishers and Massenet's Le roi de Lahore.

Gedda's recordings span a wide variety of styles and several of the roles may be considered amongst the most challenging in the entire operatic repertoire, notably Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell and Arturo in I puritani, both requiring stratospheric high notes and an easy legato line.

* The dark, operatic bird sang a line from the silent film Laugh, Clown, Laugh ( even though the lyrics to the theme song don't have those actual words ).

Thomas belonged to a remarkable sequence of exceptionally gifted American operatic baritones whose neatly overlapping careers stretched in an unbroken line from the 1920s through to the 1960s.

Several large companies that used to employ unskilled labour are now closed ; traditional trades, such as fishing and farming are diminishing rapidly ; and the ferry line, Mols-linien, has moved quite a few of its employees to the ferry port of Århus.

In the 1970s, members participated in mass civil disobedience organized by the United Construction Workers Association to break the color line in the all-white building trades.

In line with the United Kingdom, home working has increased ; however since the late 1960s, the M3 motorway ( and its extension into London, the A316 road passing through the area ) have together opened up work in self-employed trades, commerce, retail, across the outer suburbs and region including the M4 corridor, London Heathrow and in light industry which was previously not available to the workforce.

746 Communication Squadron comprises mainly signal operators and line technicians, as well as a normal squadron complement of support trades.

It is the only song on the Tres Hombres album to feature lead vocals by bassist Dusty Hill, who trades off every line with guitarist Billy Gibbons.

* Salamis: Another name to conjure with, Demos acquired a sore bum there while rowing in the Battle of Salamis ( which means he must be very old ), in gratitude for which Agoracritus thoughtfully provides him with a cushion ( line 785 ).

" Piccinni's sighing string figures, warm harmonic cushion, and finely wrought melodic line define the topos of the eighteenth-century sentimental aria.

As the play begins, the corner may either attempt to " jam " the receiver at the line, play a step or two off of him, or concede a few yards and play with a " cushion ".

* When entering a base or the home base, the runner only has to cross the line of the base ; there are no actual cushion bases like in baseball, only lines in the field showing each base's boundaries ( a much larger area compared to the bases used in baseball ).

If a brokerage customer is approved for margin on the account there will be a line of credit to " cushion " the three day settlement period.

A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.

Most Compaq products have been re-branded with the HP nameplate, such as the company's market leading ProLiant server line, while the Compaq brand remains on only some consumer-oriented and budget products, notably Compaq Presario PCs.

Figure 1 shows the cumulative budget ( cost ) for this project as a function of time ( the blue line, labeled PV ).

Strong revenue performance was driven by robust VAT on imports, while expenditure was kept in line with the budget.

The British Army had established an Experimental Mechanized Force in 1927, but they failed to pursue this line due to budget constraints and the prior need to garrison the frontiers of the Empire.

Budget constraints gives a straight line on the indifference map showing all the possible distributions between the two goods ; the point of maximum utility is then the point at which an indifference curve is tangent to the budget line ( illustrated ).

Now, if the price of carrots were to change, and the price of all other goods were to remain constant, the gradient of the budget line would also change, leading to a different point of tangency and a different quantity demanded.

A line connecting all points of tangency between the indifference curve and the budget constraint is called the expansion path.

3 would have no effect on equilibrium quantities demanded, since the budget line would rotate around the corner of the indifference curve.

In spite of these gains, Mozambique remains dependent upon foreign assistance for much of its annual budget, and a large majority of the population remains below the poverty line.

The Governor has the powers and responsibilities to: sign or veto laws passed by the Legislature, including a line item veto ; appoint judges, subject to ratification by the electorate ; propose a state budget ; give the annual State of the State address ; command the state militia ; and grant pardons for any crime, except cases involving impeachment by the Legislature.

Rather than provide for an actual legislative veto, however, the procedure created by the Act provides that, if the President should recommend rescission of a budgetary line item from a budget bill he previously signed into law — a power he already possesses pursuant to U. S. Const.

But in response to a university budget shortfall of $ 10 million, a formerly $ 700 million endowment now reduced, and the loss of longtime donors who lost money through investments with Bernard Madoff, on January 26, 2009 the university announced it would close the Rose Art Museum in September 2009 and sell off a prized collection of contemporary American art, stating " The bottom line is that the students, the faculty and core academic mission come first.

He may veto all City Council actions, including line items within a budget resolution, and his veto may be overridden by two-thirds of the whole membership of the City Council.

* Bot, a line of budget desktop PCs manufactured by Alienware

His band also delivered several shorter anonymous performances for the label's " Little Wonder " line of 90-second-long budget releases.

While some in the industry speculated this would lead to IBM using 6x86 CPUs extensively in its product line and improve Cyrix's reputation, IBM continued to mostly use Intel CPUs, and to a lesser extent, AMD CPUs, in the majority of its products and only used the Cyrix designs in a few budget models, mostly sold outside of the United States.

Although the company was short-lived and the brand name is no longer actively used by its current owner, Cyrix's competition with Intel created the market for budget CPUs, which cut the average selling price of PCs and ultimately forced Intel to release its Celeron line of budget processors and cut the prices of its faster processors more quickly in order to compete.

" To put it another way, eventually the unfavourable effects of running persistent budget deficits will force governments to reduce spending in line with their levels of revenue.

Since the previous GeForce 256 line shipped without a budget variant, the RIVA TNT2 series was left to fill the " low-end " role — albeit with a comparably obsolete feature set.

Nakamura, however, increased the budget for sport utility product development, and his gamble paid off ; Mitsubishi's wide line of four-wheel drive vehicles, from the Mitsubishi Pajero Mini kei car to the Delica Space Gear passenger van, rode the wave of SUV-buying in Japan in the early to mid-1990s, and Mitsubishi saw its overall domestic share rise to 11. 6 percent in 1995.

" The bulk of JINSA's modest annual budget is spent on taking a bevy of retired US generals and admirals to Israel, where JINSA facilitates meetings between Israeli officials and the still-influential US flag officers, who, upon their return to the States, happily write op-eds and sign letters and advertisements championing the Likudnik line.

Green Bay also had a superb defense, which displayed its talent on the final drive of the NFL Championship Game, stopping the Dallas Cowboys on 4 consecutive plays starting on the Packers 2-yard line to win the game.

Then on the first play of the Colts ' second drive, Dallas linebacker Chuck Howley intercepted a pass from Johnny Unitas and returned it 22 yards to Baltimore's 46-yard line before being tackled by Unitas himself.

Dallas forced the Colts to punt on their next possession, and several plays later, quarterback Craig Morton completed a 47-yard pass to Bob Hayes at the Colts 12-yard line, with a roughing the passer penalty adding 6 yards ( half the distance to the goal ).

Duncan fumbled the opening kickoff of the second half to Dallas, and the Cowboys moved the ball down to the Colts ' 1-yard line.

The Colts then drove to Dallas ' 44-yard line, but came up empty when O ' Brien's 52-yard field goal attempt fell short of the goal posts.

Aided by a 23-yard completion from Morrall to receiver Roy Jefferson, the Colts drove to Dallas ' 30-yard line and attempted to fool the Cowboys with a flea-flicker play.

) Dallas was forced to punt on their ensuing drive, and Widby managed to pin the Colts deep in their own territory with a 40-yard punt that was downed on Baltimore's 5-yard line.

Dallas ' defense forced Baltimore to punt after 3 plays, and got the ball back with great starting field position after receiving David Lee's 38-yard punt at the Colts 48-yard line with less than 2 minutes left in the game.

On the next play, Dallas committed a 15-yard holding penalty on the 42-yard line, which was a spot foul, pushing the team all the way back to their own 27-yard line ( the NFL did not reduce the penalty for offensive holding to 10 yards until 1974 ).

Miami started the ensuing drive with just 1: 15 left in the half, and quarterback Bob Griese completed three consecutive passes, two to receiver Paul Warfield and one to running back Jim Kiick, for 44 total yards to reach the Dallas 24-yard line.

Miami began their next possession at their own 23-yard line and mounted only their third sustained drive of the game, reaching the Dallas 16-yard line in six plays.

Pittsburgh managed to get one first down and advanced to Dallas 40-yard line, but then they too were forced to punt.

Walden managed to recover his own fumble, but Dallas took over on Steelers 29-yard line.

The Steelers subsequently advanced to the Cowboys 36-yard line on their next possession, but on fourth down and two, Bradshaw's pass was broken up by Dallas safety Cliff Harris.

Later in the period, Dallas drove to the Steelers 20-yard line.

But early in the fourth quarter, Dallas punter Mitch Hoopes was forced to punt from inside his own goal line.

Dallas halted the ensuing drive at the 20-yard line, but this time Gerela successfully kicked a 36-yard field goal to give Pittsburgh their first lead of the game, 12 – 10.

Then on the first play of the Cowboys ' next drive, Steelers defensive back Mike Wagner intercepted a pass from Staubach and returned it 19 yards to the Dallas 7-yard line.

After Gerry Mullins recovered Dallas ' onside kick attempt, the Steelers then tried to run out the clock on the next drive with four straight running plays, but the Cowboys defense stopped them on fourth down at their 39-yard line, giving Dallas one more chance to win.

Dallas was then forced to punt, and the Broncos advanced to the Cowboys ' 33-yard line before quarterback Craig Morton was sacked for an 11-yard loss on third down.