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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.
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.
* Merchants in Britain build structures outside the forts of Hadrian's Wall and offer goods and services ( including brothels ) to Roman soldiers, who receive salaries in a region that otherwise has virtually no ready money.
Merchants who had previously regarded the buccaneers as a defense against Spain now saw them as a threat to commerce, and colonial authorities grew hostile.
Merchants who had made a fortune ordered new houses built along one of the many new canals that were dug out in and around various cities and towns ( for defense and transport purposes ), houses with ornamented facades that benefited their new status.
• In 1974, Mayer, who in the off-season donned the nickname Blazers, earned their second trip to the state classic in as many years, but they bowed out in the opening round to the Winona Merchants 5-2 in St.
In The Fear Merchants episode, discrimination against Chinese immigrants who attempt to assimilate in American society is addressed.
The City Slickers developed from the Feather Merchants, a band led by vocalist-clarinetist Del Porter, who took a back seat to Jones during the embryonic years of the group.
Scholars specializing in the study of the history and subculture of Judaism in premodern China ( Sino-Judaica ) have noted this work has surprising similarities with the liturgy of the Kaifeng Jews, descendants of Persian Merchants who settled in the Middle Kingdom during the early Song Dynasty.
Outraged at losses due to theft and delay at London's riverside wharves, Milligan headed a group of powerful businessmen, including the chairman of the West India Merchants of London, George Hibbert, who promoted the creation of a wet dock circled by a high wall.
John Dryden wrote a play, entitled " Amboyna or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants ," apparently at the behest of his patron, who had been one of the chief negotiators of the Secret treaty of Dover that caused England's entry into that war.
This exodus was led by the On Leong Merchants Association who, in 1912, had a building constructed along Cermak Avenue ( then 22nd Street ) that could house 15 stores, 30 apartments and the Association's headquarters.
1939-Rona is founded in September as " Les Marchands en Quincaillerie " ( The Merchants of Hardware ), an alliance of independent Montreal-area hardware retailers who sought the buying power to bypass wholesalers and deal directly with manufacturers.
* Book XI: Concerning the Sick and the Dead and Merchants who Come from Beyond
** Title III: Concerning Merchants who Come from Beyond Seas
Négociants, who are also called Wine Merchants / Traders, were the dominant force in the wine trade until the last 25 years for various reasons:
Merchants who had been acting as the middlemen in legally importing tea stood to lose their business, as did those whose illegal Dutch trade would be undercut by the Company's lowered prices.
Merchants who accept credit cards may receive a chargeback for the transaction and lose money as a result.
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway reach a similar conclusion in Merchants of Doubt ( 2010 ), where they identified a few contrarian scientists associated with conservative think-tanks who fought the scientific consensus and spread confusion and doubt about global warming.
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 ).
Completed in 1905 and renovated a century later, the circle was designed by William P. Eno – a businessman who pioneered many early innovations in road safety and traffic control – as part of Frederick Law Olmsted's vision for Central Park, which included a " Grand Circle " at the Merchants ' Gate, its most important Eighth Avenue entrance.
: It shall be lawful to any person, for the future, to go out of our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely, by land or by water, saving his allegiance to us, unless it be in time of war, for some short space, for the common good of the kingdom: excepting prisoners and outlaws, according to the laws of the land, and of the people of the nation at war against us, and Merchants who shall be treated as it is said above.
Currency Central was headed by a board of nine, the judge, who was chairman, one representative of Faroe Fish Export, one representative of the Faroese Merchants ' Union, one representative of the bank Føroya Banki, one representative of the savings bank Føroya Sparikassi and four representatives of the Løgting.
Merchants often bought wool and flax from farmers and employed newly arrived immigrants, who had been textile workers in Ireland and Germany, to work in their homes spinning the materials into yarn and cloth.

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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.
The Beginnings of Electric Sound Generation – an exhibit at the Museum of Making Music, National Association of Music Merchants, Carlsbad, CA – some of the earliest electric guitars and their history, from the collection of Lynn Wheelwright and others
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.
Merchants benefited greatly from the enforced monopolies, bans on foreign competition, and poverty of the workers.
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 carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca, Arabia ( approximate date ).
Merchants, artisans, and scholars were transported to Istanbul from Tabriz and Cairo under Selim I ( d. 1520 ).
Merchants from the Mediterranean city-states of Italy and France were eager to exploit the rich trade markets of the east.
Merchants could travel from one end of the empire to the other in relative safety within a few weeks, moving agricultural goods produced in the provinces to the cities, and manufactured goods produced by the great cities of the East to the more rural provinces.
Merchants ( and even temples in some cases ) made ordinary business loans, charging from 20 % to 30 %.
The Dream Merchants ( 1949 ) was a novel about the American film industry, from its beginning to the sound era.
The festival is sponsored by the Seymour Merchants ' Association and is staffed completely with volunteer labor from the community.
" Gibbon Merchants Do Things ", Postcard from around 1900.
Merchants Coal attempted to build Boswell to be a notch above surrounding coal company towns in that plans included a central business district, a high school, and homes constructed from brick, as opposed to the wood used elsewhere.
Merchants and authorities settling from Rome brought with them the Latin language, and eventually the indigenous inhabitants mostly abandoned their languages ( prevalently a variety of Illyrian tongues ) for vulgar Latin.
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, hoping to benefit from the railroad, began moving their stores across the river, to the tracks.
Merchants, eager to profit from his fame, sold pictures depicting his role in the charge and written chronicles, based on his own accounts, were rushed into print.
… 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.

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