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  • Coming to the presentday, and e.g. the issue of 'journalists and PRESSTV', Dominic Lawson has a useful piece in today's 'Sunday Times': "Iran's stooges are staring right at you"

    To Beeb or not to Beeb 2009

  • In it, the Yugoslav prosecutor said, he "falsely asserts" that the Yugoslav Communist party was "firmly Stalinist" at the end of World War II and that presentday Yugoslavia has diverged from the path of true socialism.

    Human Spirit - a poem Alim Ramji 2009

  • If my head was filled with this presentday, political nonsense, I'd never have time to explore what really matters - history.

    More about egg symbols in Etruria and the rest of the classical world 2009

  • Do the following two examples of many, from the recent history of BBC salaries and expenses still reflect presentday BBC 'culture' in such matters?

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • Such indicators, which are used to reconstruct ecological optima and tolerances for past conditions, are normally applied in conjunction with surface-sediment calibration datasets to quantitatively compare presentday ecosystem variables or assemblages with those preserved in the sediment record [3].

    Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic 2009

  • An historic anti-semitism is inherent in leftwing ideology ranging from Karl Marx to its presentday ranting against Israel.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • This is to be premised alone on the kind of knowledge that comes from presentday observation, rather than from reference to biblical or other religious sources which lie beyond the research and intended scope of this work. p.

    Chronicle of Higher Education: Letters on ID - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • And if we add to this my conscious effort to properly analyse these terms into their grammatical constituents based on a more detailed and consistent grammatical model of the Etruscan language than currently provided e.g. zilaθ = a participle form of a verb zil marked by participle marker -θ clearly seen attached to well-represented verbs elsewhere such as mulv-eθ, trin-θ, acil-θ, etc., everything that presentday Etruscologists hold dear falls apart miserably.

    Etruscans, the status quo and the unpopularity of bold questioning 2007

  • And if we add to this my conscious effort to properly analyse these terms into their grammatical constituents based on a more detailed and consistent grammatical model of the Etruscan language than currently provided e.g. zilaθ = a participle form of a verb zil marked by participle marker -θ clearly seen attached to well-represented verbs elsewhere such as mulv-eθ, trin-θ, acil-θ, etc., everything that presentday Etruscologists hold dear falls apart miserably.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • The continuous-creation school of resource analysts would classify him as a doomsayer of the past whose forecasts went awry for the same reason that those of the presentday Cassandras will miss the mark, a lack of understanding of the impact on reserves of continuously improving technology, which geologist Nolan [17] once called "the inexhaustible resource."

    Limits to Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources (historical) Earl Cook 2007

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