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...imported goods, then having the surplus payment deposited in a Swiss bank, tax free. Inversely, companies may sell exports for less than their value. The foreign buyers deposit the difference to the credit of the exporters. Another variation is selling commodities abroad and getting paid through hard-to-trace foreign subsidiaries. The profits thus squirreled away may be reinvested to earn interest while avoiding French taxes...
...sides for a longer period somewhat hazardous, and the fact that he wanted to create a sense of immediacy, particularly by a unification of events. He quite obviously did not want to go into any deep analysis of people's lives, and he did not want to try and trace the historical roots of the conflict. He wanted to portray the struggle as it exists to the people living in the midst of it, that is, as a fight which though rich in folklore and history, nevertheless keeps going primarily on a day to day level. A person is found...
...learn to read under four naked light bulbs dangling from the ceiling. They are working people, as their rough hands and faded clothes attest. They are clearly still not used to handling a pencil; they clutch them as though they might escape. Copying words from the blackboard, the students trace every letter with infinite pains, eyes darting from paper to board two or three times for each word, erasers gripped in the other hand ready to rub out any slip...
Many scholars trace the beginnings of the office to the Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7, which tells how certain men took over tasks that the Apostles, busy evangelizing, had no time for-the distribution of food to the needy, for example. They were thought of as diakoni (servants) of the people. The first martyr, St. Stephen, was one of the original deacons. By the 3rd century deacons were an ecclesiastical force to be reckoned with; one text of the time called them "the ears, mouth, heart and soul of the bishop" because of their closeness to the laity...
George Orwell was born Eric Blair in 1903, the child of an Anglo-Indian civil servant who qualified, but only barely for membership in the English Establishment. He was the descendent of a long line of younger sons and could, if he chose to, trace his ancestry back to an Earl of Westmoreland and an absentec of younger sons, most of the material advantages had disappeared and Blair felt his marginal status strongly. With a father who began his working life as Assistant Sub-Deputy Opium Agent, fifth grade, and ended it Sub Deputy Opium Agent first grade...