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Stone worked out his ideas during World War II, and later pioneered a na tional accounting system that continues to provide a framework for countries around the world. As assistants of John Maynard Keynes, Stone and 1977 Nobel Laureate James Meade helped prepare a wartime study that organized mountains of data into a profile of the British economy. That herculean task enabled the country's leaders to assess accurately its resources...
...JOINING OF two art forms is, nevertheless, tricky, because the task of fitting an opera into the framework of a film risks compromising or distorting the raw material itself. Fortunately, it's not so in Carmen. Here, the medium of film serves only to complement the staged production...
...help both sides. Introduce real local government in the North, as the Unionists want, but incorporate Nationalist representation in chairmanships and local councils. In return, construct a viable and comprehensive structure of cooperation between the security forces of the Republic and Britain, to defeat terrorism within the present constitutional framework. Having no constitutional change on the agenda would unleash a new opportunity for a real change in the area that really matters whether ordinary people can live their everyday lives in peace and security. By such an action, we would already begin to unravel the net of fear and anxiety...
...women were to obey either a husband or a father. Marriage was based on "money, connections and birth," with heiresses and wealthy widows considered the most valuable prizes. Arranged marriages prevailed over choices based on live. In addition to these matrimonial limitations, the Lawes Resolutions spelled out the legal framework for marriage: a husband's property was his own but a wife's was her husband's. A woman lost her dower if she committed adultery, but men retained their jointures (settlements on the marriage) if they did the same...
...have argued that the particular framework of property and contract rights which Nozick proposes does not constitute an adequate account of the claims of economic liberty," he wrote...