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Since the law was laid down in the regime of Queen Juana the Crazy* back in 1505, Spanish women have made few advances in their rights and privileges. Only married or widowed Spanish women may vote. Without her husband's written consent, a senora may not inherit property, may not manage money or businesses, may not witness a will, or may not take a job. She may get a legal separation from her husband only if she leaves her home (it belongs to the man, even if purchased with the wife's-dowry), and surrenders all children older...
...ahead and annihilate each other; maybe the meek will finally get their chance to inherit the earth...
...membership is subject to private whim. It is a board composed of the professionally superlative. To deny membership for personal reasons has no place in the scope of its work. It is inescapable as the reductio ad absurdum of such a proposition that the academically inferior five percent will inherit the organ through denial of privilege to those who earned the invitation and the opportunity to prove themselves...
...people Marx called the ruling class, and produced a new label: the leisure class. The businessman, to Veblen, was a saboteur of the economy, because instead of just sticking to making goods, he tried to regulate output in order to make more money. Eventually, thought Veblen, the engineers would inherit the world and run it properly. He died on the eve of the Great Depression. Perhaps his greatest merit, as Author Heilbroner makes clear, was that he saw one great truth Marx never saw: the "working class" had no real desire to rebel against the bourgeoisie, but wanted to become...
...public table, where all & sundry might witness the repellent act of mastication. Nothing, concluded Grandma, could redeem Menen's Irish mother (to whom she always referred flatly as "the Englishwoman," much irking Mrs. Menen). but if Aubrey wanted to become a true son of Malabar and inherit the family wealth, it was not too late. He had only to quaff a goblet of sacred cow's urine and "the sad accident of being born in London" would be forgotten...