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stock and parasite
These two are perfect examples of the stock characters of the pompous soldier and the desperate parasite that appeared in Plautine comedies.
One of the most important echoes of Plautus is the stock character of the parasite.
Numedalslågen is known for being a good location for salmon fishing, although a parasite known as Gyrodactylus salaris has recently been found in Numedalslågen that may pose a threat to its salmon stock.
The Driva was formerly an excellent salmon river, but the parasite Gyrodactylus salaris has decimated the salmon stock.
It incorporates various Roman stock characters including the parasite, the comic courtesan, the comic servant, the domineering wife, the doddering father-in-law and the quack doctor.

stock and play
Later that year, Booth played the part of an Indian, Uncas, in a play staged in Petersburg, Virginia, and then became a stock company actor at the Richmond Theatre in Virginia, where he became increasingly popular with audiences for his energetic performances.
In disposing of highly complex individuals, Plautus was supplying his audience with what it wanted, since “ the audience to whose tastes Plautus catered was not interested in the character play ,” but instead wanted the broad and accessible humor offered by stock set-ups.
At any rate, they are not of English stock: at one point early in the play, Estragon mocks the English pronunciation of " calm " and has fun with " the story of the Englishman in the brothel ".
( The truism that says, diversify your investments, may have worked for the Elizabethan play market as for the modern stock market.
Tracy swore that if the play failed to be a hit he would leave stock and work in a " regular " business instead.
East Lynne has been adapted for the stage many times ; the play was so popular that stock companies put on a performance whenever they needed guaranteed revenue.
She auditioned for George Cukor's stock theater company, and although he was not very impressed, he gave Davis her first paid acting assignment anyway — a one-week stint playing the part of a chorus girl in the play Broadway.
This process ends and play begins either at the point that the elder hand chooses not to propose, or the dealer refuses to accept, or the stock of remaining cards runs out.
If the non-dealer elect to play the hand, he has it completed from the stock.
* If the dealer accept when there are not sufficient cards left in the stock to enable the players to exchange as many cards as they wish, the non-dealer is entitled to exchange as many as he asked for, or, if there are not enough, at many as there are left, and the dealer must play his hand ; the dealer is at liberty to accept, conditionally, on there being cards enough in the stock.
Washington spent the summer of 1976 in St. Mary's City, Maryland, in summer stock theater performing Wings of the Morning, the Maryland State play.
Hart, on a journey from Hollywood to New York in 1931, was inspired to write a play about an American family's difficulties, over 30 years, coping with the challenges of life in the 20th century, beginning with their innocence and optimism at the beginning of the century to the dashed hopes caused by the stock market crash of 1929.
Actor Pat O ' Brien encouraged her to take a part in summer stock, and the play A Roomful of Roses opened in 1961.
At that time, he handed over all existing Hawks player contracts, front-office resources and the rights to play in San Jose State University's Spartan Stadium to MLS in exchange for Type C stock in the league.
The trade was briefly postponed as NL president John Heydler stated that Hornsby could not play for the Giants while he held stock in the Cardinals.
Serious Money ( 1987 ), " a comedy about excesses in the financial world ", is a verse play that takes a satirical look at the stock market and received enormous acclaim, partly because it played immediately after the stock market crash of 1987.
MacKay and Calvin both went on to play several guest roles in Airwolf ; and McDowall, MacKay, Calvin ( and stock footage of the Goose ) all went on to have guest appearances on the Bellisario series Quantum Leap ( 1989 – 1993 ).
She began her career in 1941 in summer stock, aged 18, and made her New York debut in American Gothic, an Off-Broadway play.
They also play the villains in the 2002 Xbox video game Loons: The Fight for Fame, a vs. fighting game in which the no-good gangsters attempt to run a film studio into the ground so they can buy up the stock for next to nothing.
)) of the play, a riot, which has since become " a stock element of Jarry biographia ", broke out.
The object of the game is to play higher cards than the previously played cards, first to get replacement cards from the stock pile, and, after the stock pile has exhausted, to get rid of one's cards.

stock and has
He seems to have at least a few 30- and 50-megaton bombs on hand, since we cannot assume that he has exploded his entire stock.
The fact that sticks out in this voluminous record is that the bulk of Du Pont's production has always supplied the largest part of the requirements of the one customer in the automobile industry connected to Du Pont by a stock interest.
The statutory policy of fostering free competition is obviously furthered when no supplier has an advantage over his competitors from an acquisition of his customer's stock likely to have the effects condemned by the statute.
Previously known as Jefferson Arms, Kodiak has given this 11-shot hammerless job an exceptionally fine stock design, and the 260 is the first autoloader to handle
This gun has a 12-1/2-inch stock and is available in either 20 or gauge.
Much has been done in the way of ingenious slitters to fabricate the slab stock into finished products.
Probably the hottest thing that has hit the Dallas investment community in years was the Morton Foods stock issue, which was sold to the public during the past week.
First, the general stock market has been boiling upward for the last few months, driving stocks of all kinds up.
In common hagiographical fashion, the Vita Alcuini asserts that Alcuin was ' of noble English stock ,' and this statement has usually been accepted by scholars.
At the end of the game, all players liquidate their stock in order to determine which player has the most money.
On July 12, 2010, Aon announced that it has agreed to buy Lincolnshire, Illinois, based Hewitt Associates for $ 4. 9 billion in cash and stock.
With 5 stock listed companies, Bonn has the 4th highest market capitalisation amongst German towns.
The Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 has introduced new standards of accountability on boards of U. S. companies or companies listed on U. S. stock exchanges.
the company has $ 600 which is 40 percent less than before it sold the stock.
The increasingly elderly high-speed rolling stock has had its speed limited to 120 km / h for safety reasons.
Since these stock additions retain the short pistol barrel ( as short as 100 mm ( 4 inches )) they are highly restricted under the NFA unless the shoulder stocks are of original manufacture for the gun and the gun has been " delisted " as outlined in links 1 & 2 in the paragraph above, as is the case with so-equipped " Broomhandle " Mausers and Lugers.
While an emphasis remains on agriculture and stock breeding, due to the climate and terrain of the island, there has been a drop in manufacturing, and an observable expansion in its service industries ( mainly tourism-related ).
The couscous that is sold in most Western supermarkets has been pre-steamed and dried, the package directions usually instruct to add 1. 5 measures of boiling water or stock and butter to each measure of couscous and to cover tightly for 5 minutes.
Hedging also occurs when an individual or institution buys an asset ( such as a commodity, a bond that has coupon payments, a stock that pays dividends, and so on ) and sells it using a futures contract.
Rehabilitation of the remainder and of the rolling stock has occurred in recent years.
Recent usage has distinguished human capital ( the stock of knowledge in the labor force ) from labor.
Computer modelling of stock prices has now replaced much of the subjective interpretation of fundamental data ( along with technical data ) in the industry.
" However, most of the criticism is of the lack of actual special effects work, as most of it consists of stock footage from previous films, including Godzilla vs. Gigan and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and a few pieces of effects work has garnered praise, specifically a scene where Megalon breaks through a dam and the draining of the lake.
Haiti has no stock exchange.
" When you place an order to buy or sell a stock, your broker has choices on where to execute your order.

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