Maintaining that it should be phased out gradually, Rand opposed taxation as she considered it theft and an endorsement of force over reason.

In late 1953 she proposed that data processing problems should be expressed using English keywords, but Rand management considered the idea unfeasible.

Ayn Rand considered that integrity " does not consist of loyalty to one's subjective whims, but of loyalty to rational principles ".

The initial Los Angeles run ( as Woman on Trial ) got complimentary reviews, although Rand was disappointed that they focused on the play's melodrama and its similarity to The Trial of Mary Dugan, while paying little attention to aspects she considered more important, such as the contrasting ideas of individualism versus conformity.

Some reviews focused on Woods, who had many previous theatrical successes, as the source of the play's positive attributes, although Rand considered his changes harmful and was embarrassed by reviews that praised these elements.

Once again reviewers ignored the broader themes that Rand considered important.

It borders the suburbs of Strubens Valley, Weltevreden Park, Helderkruin and Allen's Nek, and is considered one of the more scenic and upmarket suburbs in the West Rand, especially within its boom-controlled area.

Germiston is now the seat of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality which includes much of the East Rand, and is also considered part of Greater Johannesburg.

" Rand defined " reason " as " the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses.

Rand argued that neither is possible because the senses provide the material of knowledge while conceptual processing is also needed to establish knowable propositions.

Rand argued that other people are an enormous value to an individual's well-being ( through education, trade and affection ), but also that this value could be fully realized only under conditions of political and economic freedom.

Some aspects of MUMPS can be traced from Rand Corporation's JOSS through BBN's TELCOMP and STRINGCOMP.

As Rand wrote, " A leaf ... cannot be all red and green at the same time, it cannot freeze and burn at the same time ... A is A.

" Rand maintained that the first question isn't what should the code of values be, the first question is " Does man need values at all — and why?

Notable is the fact that Flintheart Glomgold's first coin could never be a rand because the South Africans utilized the South African pound from 1825 to 1961, when the South African Rand was introduced.

Similarly, in the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Howard Roark is chosen to design a resort called Monodnack Valley and it is subsequently revealed that the investors had sold 200 % of the shares, convinced that the project would be a flop and that they had chosen Howard Roark as the worst possible person for the job.

On June 3, 1996, the FBI warned White House National Security Council aide Rand Beers that the People's Republic of China might be trying to funnel money into U. S. Congressional campaigns.

Atansoff invented the first digital computer in the world during the 1930s in the Iowa State College, but it took a lengthy court battle for achieving legal patent to 1973 when the case of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand was solved and the verdict named Atansoff with the title the inventor of the computer, the decision was never appealed, thus giving him the legal right to be called as such in the United States.

Cato's new head John A. Allison IV is reported to be an " ardent devotee " of Rand who has promoted reading her books to colleges nationwide.

In her journals Rand described Wynand as " the man who could have been " a heroic individualist, contrasting him to Roark, " the man who can be and is ".

The New York Times review of the novel named Rand " a writer of great power " who writes " brilliantly, beautifully and bitterly ," and it stated that she had " written a hymn in praise of the individual ... you will not be able to read this masterful book without thinking through some of the basic concepts of our time.

A true rape, Rand said, would be " a dreadful crime ".

After this very large layoff, the Rand McNally CEO announced all Irvine data edits would be outsourced to Bangalore, India.

Past TBM employees still wonder where the company would be if they had not been sold to Rand McNally but sold to somebody on the west coast.

Other than apparently ordering the death of Rand al ' Thor at least once, his plans have yet to be revealed.

Rand is an even stronger Ta ' veren than Artur Hawkwing ( widely regarded as the strongest Ta ' veren in recorded history ) and signs of this manifest wherever he stays-freakish deaths and laughably improbable accidents are common around wherever he happens to be, but are always balanced by unexpected good fortune of equal magnitude.

The voice of Lews Therin suddenly speaks in a sane manner, helping Rand to realize that Pattern repeats are in fact blessing, as they receive a chance to undo their wrongs and to love again ( simultaneously Rand realizes that Ilyena will be reborn as well ).

It is strongly implied that he will never hear Lews Therin voice again, as he accepts him as part of himself, and two are completely united-this may be the fulfillment of Min's vision that saw Rand merging with another man.

Rand al ' Thor is special in that he is the only known soul to be woven out by the Wheel of Time for a specific rebirth.

It has also been hinted that Rand will become blind ; Perrin saw him through a ' window ' in Tel ' aran ' rhiod with a bandage across his eyes, while looking at him, Tuon thought " He didn't seem blinded yet, so that had yet to happen ", and Min saw a white-hot iron as part of a viewing of him, which suggests that he will be tortured and lose his eyes.

Many believed her to be dead at the time Rand declared himself to be the Dragon Reborn.

Ayn Rand claimed to have emigrated to America on this vessel.

Rand claimed only a single line from her original dialog appeared in the movie, which she dismissed as " cheap, trashy vulgarity ".

At the Eye of the World, Rand discovered he could channel, and Moiraine claimed he was in fact the Dragon Reborn ; perhaps because of this, and to avenge herself of the perceived injustices wrought on her by Moiraine, Nynaeve eventually agreed to go to the Tower.

He has claimed that he truly thought he was the Dragon, and has since acknowledged Rand al ' Thor as the true Dragon Reborn, and become one of his followers and chief lieutenants.

In response, Paul St. F. Blair defended Rand's ethical conclusions, while maintaining that his arguments might not have been approved by Rand.

He has defended the arguments of Ayn Rand for ethical egoism, and also writes frequently on business ethics, a field in which he deploys a neo-Aristotelian ethical stance whereby commercial and business conduct gain their moral standing by constituting extensions of the virtues of productivity and prudence.

* Fingerprints of the Gods An analysis of arguments made for a Late Pleistocene Pole Shift, based in the ideas of Rand Flem-Ath, by Graham Hancock in his 1995 book

Rand defined an axiom as " a statement that identifies the base of knowledge and of any further statement pertaining to that knowledge, a statement necessarily contained in all others whether any particular speaker chooses to identify it or not.

Rand held that existence is the perceptually self-evident fact at the base of all other knowledge, i. e., that " existence exists.

" Says Rand, " The attack on man's consciousness and particularly on his conceptual faculty has rested on the unchallenged premise that any knowledge acquired by a process of consciousness is necessarily subjective and cannot correspond to the facts of reality, since it is " processed knowledge ... all knowledge is processed knowledge — whether on the sensory, perceptual or conceptual level.

Says Rand, " The fundamental concept of method, the one on which all the others depend, is logic.

" Rand also rejected all forms of faith or mysticism, terms that she used synonymously.

For Rand, all of the principal virtues are applications of the role of reason as man's basic tool of survival: rationality, honesty, justice, independence, integrity, productiveness, and pride — each of which she explains in some detail in " The Objectivist Ethics.

Rand argued that limited intellectual property monopolies being granted to certain inventors and artists on a first-to-file basis as moral because she viewed all property as fundamentally intellectual.

Finally, Rand duels with Ba ' alzamon, while their images appear in the sky, drawing the attention of all.

Charmayeff, Rand and Bass all died in 1996.

From July the following year a weekly Rand – Kimberley – Beaufort West – Cape Town service commenced ; in April A936, all Rand – Cape Town services were taken over from Imperial Airways.

Having the only sewer system in the area would give Kildeer complete control of any and all development along Rand Road and its surrounding borders.

During the war, about 1. 9 million units were procured by the U. S. Government for all forces, production being undertaken by several manufacturers, including Remington Rand ( 900, 000 produced ), Colt ( 400, 000 ), Ithaca Gun Company ( 400, 000 ), Union Switch & Signal ( 50, 000 ), and Singer ( 500 ).

His son, Republican Senator Rand Paul, calls himself " totally pro-life " and supports " any and all legislation that would end abortion or lead us in the direction of ending abortion.

The college continued to grow throughout the 18th Century and did produce several distinguished scholars and clergymen including the so-called Benedictine Antiquaries, a dozen or so men all well known for antiquarian research including such figures as Richard Gough, Brock Rand and William Stukeley.

They have pledged to teach him " laughter and tears ", though in different ways, as Rand has conditioned himself not to feel emotion by reciting the names of all the women who have died directly because of his actions over and over to himself, forcing himself to become harder and harder, or as he puts it, " harder than steel ".

Book 3, The Dragon Reborn, was in fact told almost exclusively from the points-of-view of Mat Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, and Egwene al ' Vere, despite the fact that it is undoubtedly about Rand ( all three parties eventually follow him to Tear and are present when he pulls the sword Callandor from the Stone and proclaims himself the Dragon Reborn ), and the following books have continued in following the adventures of other characters besides Rand, to such a degree at times that in the tenth book, Crossroads of Twilight, Rand only appears in two chapters and the epilogue.

It is hinted that Rand now possesses all the memories and skills of his previous reincarnation, Lews Therin ; When called a boy by Cadsuane, he mentions that he is older than 400 years, and therefore should receive some respect from her, and half-seriously suggests to her to address him as Rand Sedai, as " I am, so far as I know, the only male Aes Sedai still alive who was properly raised but who never turned to the Shadow ".