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Many parents have since stopped me on the street or in airports to thank me for helping them to raise fine children, and they've often added, " I don't see any instant gratification in Baby and Child Care " I answer that they're right -- I've always advised parents to give their children firm, clear leadership and to ask for cooperation and politeness in return.
His confidants the Marquis de Bonnay and the Duc de la Chatre advised him to inflict firm punishments on the “ traitors ”.
To her stepdaughter, Mary, now Duchess of Burgundy, she gave immeasurable guidance and help: using her own experiences in the court of Edward IV, where she had largely avoided being used as a pawn and contributed to the arrangement of her own marriage, she wisely guided the Duchess in deciding her marriage ; against the wave of marriage offers that flooded to the two Duchesses in Ghent ( from the recently widowed Duke of Clarence, from the 7-year old Dauphin of France, Charles, from a brother of Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville ), she stood firm, and advised Mary to marry Maximilian of Habsburg, the 18-year old son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, to whom Charles the Bold had betrothed Mary, and who was ambitious and active enough, in Margaret's opinion, to defend Mary's legacy.
According to the US Dept of Health, eggs should be cooked until both the white and the yolk are firm, and the water temperature should be, but children, the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems are advised against eating lightly cooked eggs because of possible under-cooking.
In the same year, the firm also underwrote the IPO of Microsoft, advised General Electric on its acquisition of RCA and joined the London and Tokyo stock exchanges.
In 1978 Wanniski started Polyconomics, an economics forecasting firm, where he and his analysts advised corporations, investment banks and others.
While at the firm, he audited large businesses and governmental entities, provided tax law counsel on multi-million dollar transactions, advised entrepreneurs and small businesses on tax and investment issues, and helped represent the Government of the Philippines under President Aquino in a successful effort to seize assets of deposed President Marcos.
* Sir John Harvey Jones famously visited the firm in the 1980s BBC documentary series Troubleshooter in which he advised the firm to modernize.
Eulenburg advised Bülow to stake out a firm working relationship immediately on his arrival, and the two succeeded in working together.
Although advised by Johnston to escape with his army, sacrificing the city, Pemberton held firm for over six weeks, while soldiers and civilians were starved into submission.
As owner of the consulting firm Green & Gold Inc. since 1998, he has advised public, private, and non-profit organizations on adopting more sustainable and socially responsible practices.
The baby's mother had been notified of her condition following an ultrasound, and had been advised to terminate the pregnancy by her obstetrician and neonatologist but chose to carry the child to term because of " a firm Christian faith that all life should be protected ".
The firm also advised CBS Corporation on its 1988 sale of CBS Records to Sony to form what would become Sony Music Entertainment.
Since 1999, the firm has advised on more than 250 restructurings totaling over $ 1 trillion in debtor assets, including the landmark bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings.
Following his 21-year public service career, Mr. Paxon joined the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP, where, since January 1999, he has advised a wide range of public and private sector clients on policy issues.
Obviously Reenan held firm and finally received his money — although The Sun seems to have got the upper hand by using a classic tabloid " cloak-and-dagger " tactic to ensure that their unwitting subject was not initially available for further comment after the story broke: " For four days we were walking around in the dark because the Sun advised us to draw our curtains and not to touch our mail or newspapers.
Their firm advised program directors for a substantial segment of AOR stations all over the US.
Burdick joined his father's law firm in Fargo, where he advised farmers who were threatened with foreclosure.
* In 2003, the firm advised Deutsche Telekom in its € 2. 3 billion bond offer.
" Wise parenthood implies firm control and continual interest in the doings of sons and daughters ", the Committee advised, but also said that parents ' own conduct would be the " best example for the [...] rising generation ".
In October 2007 Trinity Mirror sold the Racing Post licence for £ 170m to FL Partners, an Irish private equity firm, who were advised on the venture by former Racing Post editor Alan Byrne.
As head of that firm, he advised Kaiser Wilhelm II prior to World War I.
In that position, he advised the firm on strategic initiatives and long-term planning.

firm and Orwell
As a result of the success of Animal Farm, Orwell was expecting a large bill from the Inland Revenue and he contacted a firm of accountants of which the senior partner was Jack Harrison.
Peter Keller, one of the Orwell Prize judges, described Hitchens's writing as being " as firm, polished and potentially lethal as a Guardsman ’ s boot.

firm and establish
The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.
' The soul of delivery is in the manful assertion of the orator's personality, in the revelation of the high purpose by which he is actuated, in the profound conviction of the truth of his course, in the firm resolve to establish it, in the dauntless spirit that faces all obstacles, and, conquering them, sweeps onward to the desired goal.
The policies / goals would be carried out by the technical specialists that form the coordinating hierarchy of the firm, who would establish plans or directives for the work community to accomplish these goals.
Generations of kings of France and Germany were unable to establish a firm rule over Lothair ’ s kingdom.
Husserl believed that phenomenology could thus provide a firm basis for all human knowledge, including scientific knowledge, and could establish philosophy as a " rigorous science ".
During July 2002, the consulting firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting announced that it would rename itself to Monday, and spend $ 110 million over the next year to establish that brand.
A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year.
Flagler's houselots were bought by the beneficiaries of the Gilded Age, and in 1902 Flagler himself built a Beaux-Arts mansion, Whitehall, designed by the New York – based firm Carrère and Hastings and helped establish the Palm Beach winter " season " by constantly entertaining.
Much of Penn's architecture was designed by the architecture firm of Cope & Stewardson, whose principal architects combined the Gothic architecture of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge with the local landscape to establish the Collegiate Gothic style.
About 1906, the Jewish Encyclopedia noted: " The practice initiated by the Rothschilds of having several brothers of a firm establish branches in the different financial centers was followed by other Jewish financiers, like the Bischoffsheims, Pereires, Seligmans, Lazards, and others, and these financiers by their integrity and financial skill obtained credit not alone with their Jewish confrères, but with the banking fraternity in general.
This methodology — conducting ethnographic fieldwork to establish firm correlations between behavior and material culture — is known as ethnoarchaeology and is credited to Binford.
In 1925, Jamieson left the partnership to establish his own firm.
Taken to the extreme, penetration pricing becomes predatory pricing, when a firm initially sells a product or service at unsustainably low prices to eliminate competition and establish a monopoly.
As a follow on to his involvement in the Ludlow Massacre, Rockefeller was a major initiator with his close friend and advisor William Lyon Mackenzie King in the nascent industrial relations movement ; along with major chief executives of the time he incorporated Industrial Relations Counselors ( IRC ) in 1926, a consulting firm whose main goal was to establish industrial relations as a recognized academic discipline at Princeton University and other institutions.
" But as her father later said, " Politics was her life ," and in December 1968 she used her experience to gain a job with Matt Reese Associates, a Washington, D. C., firm that helped establish campaign headquarters and field offices for politicians and was one of the first political consulting companies.
It was Stephens “ firm resolution to establish a democratic republic in Ireland ; that is, a republic for the weal of the toiler ,” and that this would require a complete social revolution before the people could possibly become republicans.
Hanseatic League merchant houses were the first to establish footholds: Johann Cesar Godeffroy & Sohn of Hamburg, headquartered at Samoa from 1857, operated a South Seas network of trading stations especially dominating the copra trade and carrying German immigrants to various South Pacific settlements ; in 1877 another Hamburg firm, Hernsheim and Robertson, established a German community on Matupi Island, in Blanche Bay ( the north-east coast of New Britain ) from which it traded in New Britain, the Caroline and Marshall Islands.
The novel took a long time to establish a firm place in the hierarchy, doing so only as belief in any systematic hierarchy of forms expired in the 19th century.
For example, claims of natural monopoly are often used as justification for government intervening to establish a statutory monopoly ( government monopoly or government-granted monopoly ) where competition is outlawed, under the claim that multiple firms providing a good or service entails more collective costs to an economy than that which would be the case if a single firm provided a good or service.
Alerted to this move, Washington retreated farther, establishing a position in the village of White Plains but failed to establish firm control over local high ground.
Securities firms agreed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and CFTC to establish a Derivatives Policy Group through which six large securities firms conducting the great majority of securities firm OTC derivatives activities reported to the CFTC and SEC about their activities and adopted voluntary principles similar to those applicable to banks.
Trans-Island Bus Services ( TIBS ) was formerly a public transport operator in Singapore, incorporated on 31 May 1982 by a firm of Singapore Shuttle Bus as a second full-day run bus service, following public transportation market liberalisation reform approved by parliament, which thereafter proposed the formation of another public bus service provider to establish a duopoly, which will compete with Singapore Bus Services ( now SBS Transit ) in 1981.
Thus, the SPD was able to establish a firm base on the local level.

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