...,” Gibson's proposed coolhunting ethos treats the brand name as a cognitive map of the multinational economic supply chains that underlie the glossy surface of the brand. The need for such a mapping exists because, across many industries, the brand has been transformed from a way of insuring product quality...

..., assistance, old-age insurance, burial and funeral services) to them and their family members. In other words, the communes and brigades in rural areas and units in cities, rather than the government, provided welfare for individuals. There was no need for the state to provide...

... ironically to a collaboration that insures the continuation of the corporate status quo. If there is a difference between the two parties, it is this: while the Democrats have a finger in the hole in the crumbling dike that is holding back the tidal wave of predatory capitalism (complete priva...

.... Trotsky objects on historical grounds: the Reformation succeeded because it unleashed terror against its opponents. Cromwell used terror to advance his cause, and Robespierre used it to insure the triumph of the French Revolution, he Interventions / Godzich / Fear without...

... of pulp fiction cartels, the good ship Golden Fang: a Pynchonesque meto- nym for the totality of globalcapitalist circulation administering dope to the strung out and then detoxification to the cured, and issuing marine insur- ance to boats to protect against the “inherent evil” of lost...

... that the state would need to introduce and execute to forestall further social and economic polarization. His list included government regulation of workers’ hours and wages; the abolition of Sunday labor; sickness and accident insurance; old-age pen- sions; factory safety rules; and state-sponsored consumer...

... Scalia from accept- ing Rivkin’s invitation to use this newly minted rule to take health insurance away from thirty million people. Scalia and his fellow dissenters in the ACA case were zealous in vin- dicating the liberties of those who “have no intention of purchasing most or even any...

.... At the novel’s center we find a New Left assassin on the trail of a Federal agent whose authoritarian abuses embody everything the Left had come to fear in the state. The assassin believes she kills the agent but real- izes soon after that she has attacked the wrong man, an insurance adjustor...

... intervene in problematic sites, the workers hired by the contrac- tors take care of the physical work, such as cleaning up and making repairs in highly radioactive environments, without sufficient information, industrial injury insurance, and safety measures. The voice of the electric company...

... supplanted secular revolutionism. In the revised COIN doctrine, terrorism became again a tactic that insur- gents use—a sign and symptom of their barbarism—in order to create dis- order, sectarian violence, intimidation, and overreaction. The novelty of Counterinsurgency ’s militarized knowledge...

...-and- events/press- releases/spent- game- reaches- one- million - plays.html. 128 boundary 2 / Summer 2013 health insurance with a $275 monthly premium, even as it costs nearly a week’s wages. With each choice, the game explains both the positive and negative consequences, frequently citing...

...- Value Care in Medicaid vs Commercially Insured Populations .” JAMA Internal Medicine 176 , no. 7 : 998 – 1004 . Choudhry Niteesh . 2002 . “ Relationships between Authors of Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Pharmaceutical Industry .” JAMA 287 , no. 5 : 612 – 17...

... generally the trials. Both raised the crucial issue of revolutionary violence, which had to be solved in order to insure that the transformation of Polish society that became possible under the new regime would be legitimate. Given their long historical experience of repeated uprisings against...

... for religious communities to draw back into the safety of self-­defined orthodoxy. However, the fact that Islam granted the “People of the Book”—and by implication the book from which they received their name—a recognized status insured that the role of the Bible in the pre- modern Middle East was quite...

... erroneous views Woeser has since lost her position with the Tibetan Literary Association, been deprived of her income, her medical insurance and retirement benefits, had her housing taken away, and is not permitted to obtain a passport. She was also ordered to sign a written ‘‘confession in which she...

... erroneous views Woeser has since lost her position with the Tibetan Literary Association, been deprived of her income, her medical insurance and retirement benefits, had her housing taken away, and is not permitted to obtain a passport. She was also ordered to sign a written ‘‘confession in which she...

... by insurance companies.17 Bobbitt takes an interesting position here. If the credibility of the state depends on its ability to protect its citizens, then a poor performance on natural dis- asters can be just as damaging as a failure to prevent acts of terror. The genre of detective fiction alone tells...

... and factory performance records, prison records, as well as the numerous other records that appeared later, such as driving records, insurance records, credit records, and so on.3 This use of writing must be distinguished from its use in the formalization of rules and proce- dures, which Weber...

... that are considering financial support of Granada House might be interested in the following breakdown. From 1983 to 1989 I paid almost no taxes, cost two different health insurance companies almost $100,000 in treatments, institutionalizations, and psychiatric care, cost myself and my...

..., is occupying the weird and rejected places of modernity. Occupying the insane, the hospitable, the uncertain, the unintelligible. —Báyò Akómoláfé, “I, Coronavirus. Mother. Monster” The COVID-19 pandemic—or, rather, the phalanxes of lawyers, financial administrators, and liability insurers trailing...