He currently sits on the boards of insurer Legal & General, The Merchants Trust plc, Standard Bank, international fashion retailer New Look, property investment and development company Capital & Counties Properties and, as of 1 September 2010, British retailer, WH Smith.

The market cross, the prison and prison wall, The Merchants House ( 8 Market Place ), Anglo-Bavarian Brewery, Charlton Viaduct, the former St Michael's Roman Catholic Church at Townsend, and Bowlish House, Old Bowlish House and Park House in Bowlish are the town's nine grade II * listed buildings.

In " The Merchants of Venus ", the Heechee ( a name given by humans since nobody knows what they called themselves ) are nowhere to be found, and humans know of them only from their artifacts.

Merchants are still " citizens " to William Harrison ; but he adds " they often change estate with gentlemen, as gentlemen do with them, by a mutual conversion of the one into the other.

Merchants are intermediaries that buy and resell products.

Appointments to the office of Dean of Guild are still made in some areas: for instance the Lord Dean of Guild of Glasgow is described as the " second citizen of Glasgow " after the Lord Provost although the appointment is in the hands of the Merchants House of Glasgow, and not the city council.

* The Thousand Cultures series of novels ( A Million Open Doors, Earth Made of Glass, The Merchants of Souls and The Armies of Memory ), by John Barnes, are set in the 29th century.

Wellington Quay-with its arcaded shop fronts-and Merchants Arch are also part of the commission's work, as are Eden Quay, Lower Abbey Street, Bachelor's Walk, and Beresford Place.

Négociants, who are also called Wine Merchants / Traders, were the dominant force in the wine trade until the last 25 years for various reasons:

Of Drawbacks: Merchants and manufacturers are not contented with the monopoly of the home market, but desire likewise the most extensive foreign sale for their goods.

The gates into Central Park along its western edge are: Merchants Gate at 59th Street, Women's Gate at 72nd, Naturalists Gate at 77th, Hunters Gate at 81st, Mariners Gate at 85th, Gate of all Saints at 96th, Boys Gate at 100th, and Strangers Gate at 106th.

* Dan Skoda and his colleagues are bringing new sparkle to Marshall Field's # 148, September 1995, Illinois Retail Merchants Association, April 23, 2003

Merchants and subjects of Mughal rule are known to have traded in Astrakhan.

Buried in the Churchyard at Church Knowle are the two brothers who brought the first steam locomotive ( Primus ) to Purbeck in 1866-The Pike Brothers-John William and William Joseph Pike ( Purbeck Ball Clay Merchants ).

The Merchants are in charge of running London's economy.

Shulman's works include the novels Rally Round the Flag, Boys !, which was made into a film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward ; The Feather Merchants ; The Zebra Derby ; Sleep till Noon ; and Potatoes are Cheaper.

Nuclear Assault are still active and appeared at the Metal Merchants Festival in Oslo, Norway, in January 2011.

General characters that appear outside of the campaign are Merchants that hang around bars that give the player cargo missions, Confed officers that assign patrol / clean sweep missions, Pirates and ISO members that give cargo / bounty missions, as well as bounty hunters that give bounty missions.

Merchants are replenished after the player leaves the town and has an encounter of some sort.

Most of its projects outside Hong Kong are in joint venture with local developers, including the Keppel Group in Singapore, the Vantone Group in Beijing and the Longfor and China Merchants groups in Chongqing.

There are five warring factions: the Allied Nations, South Korea ( in cahoots with the CIA ), the Russian Mafia " Merchants of Death ", China and Song's North Korean army.

Merchants from the city dominate the informal economy in most Guinean cities and are also economically active in cities further afield, such as Dakar, Bamako, Abidjan, Bissau and Freetown.

Merchants are free to exchange Toronto dollars for Canadian dollars twice a month, at the rate of 90 cents to the dollar.

" Right now, consumers are footing the bill ," said Doug Kantor of the Merchants Payments Coalition, a large group of retailers and retail trade associations.

… I am a Kentish man, born in a town called Gillingham, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from Chatham, where the King's ships do lie: from the age of twelve years old, I was brought up in Limehouse near London, being Apprentice twelve years to Master Nicholas Diggins ; and myself have served for Master and Pilot in her Majesty's ships ; and about eleven or twelve years have served the Worshipfull Company of the Barbary Merchants, until the Indish traffic from Holland began, in which Indish traffic I was desirous to make a little experience of the small knowledge which God had given me.

The Julia Morgan Ballroom at the Merchants Exchange Building in San Francisco was named in her honor.

" This great ruler in Indore encouraged all within her realm to do their best, Merchants produced their finest cloths, trade flourished, the farmers were at peace and oppression ceased, for each case that came to the queens notice was dealt with severely.

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

How effectively these warnings can be presented is seen in Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, Vonnegut's Player Piano and Wyndham's Re-Birth.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

While The Space Merchants indicates, as Kingsley Amis has correctly observed, some of the `` impending consequences of the growth of industrial and commercial power '' and satirizes `` existing habits in the advertising profession '', its warning and analysis penetrate much deeper.

The Space Merchants, like such humanist documents as Joseph Wood Krutch's The Measure Of Man and C. S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man, considers what may result from the scientific study of human nature.

Merchants in southern Florida have found it profitable to advertise in Bahamian publications.

Merchants at the port of Wilmington had trading ties with the British.

Merchants wade into these pools and collect petroleum in ladles and fill goatskins with it, these oil merchants then sell them in different regions.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.

The authors of the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt accuse climate change " skeptics " of trying to sow seeds of doubt in public opinion in order to halt any meaningful social or political progress to reduce the impact of human carbon emissions.

Merchants who profited from the American trade began investing in leather, textiles, iron, coal, sugar, rope, sailcloth, glassworks, breweries, and soapworks, setting the foundations for the city's emergence as a leading industrial centre after 1815.

Merchants and artisans from many parts of the Roman world established themselves in coastal Libya and the province was greatly " Romanized ", according to Theodore Mommsen.

Merchants whose goods were being shipped together would pay a proportionally divided premium which would be used to reimburse any merchant whose goods were deliberately jettisoned in order to lighten the ship and save it from total loss.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly position themselves as skeptics, with their views being given equal time by the media.

Drawn by A. Ruger, Merchants Lith.

* Fawaz Tarazi, L. Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth-Century Beirut.

Merchants benefited greatly from the enforced monopolies, bans on foreign competition, and poverty of the workers.

Merchants purchasing it there pack it on horses for 30 days to the Rhone river, where it is carried down to the mouth.

To this end, he compares George Orwell's Coming Up for Air with Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and concludes that the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum, a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as " a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-( and in the current state of knowledge ) impossible ".

Merchants also, however, sometimes smuggled other goods to circumvent prohibitions or embargoes on particular trades.

Merchants set up a website to display their products or services for consumers to access by using a web browser.