Excerpt: I drove up the gravel shoulder to the edge of the highway and held my steering wheel as the giant vehicle trained its guns on me. I tried to look friendly. I gave a quick wave to go with my biggest, fake smile. As the road train thundered past, the gun crew waved back and then I held on as my van rocked in the wash of the twenty-six car chain of gray and black composite.

Excerpt: THE Judge?s House Bram Stoker ?When the time for his examination drew near Malcolm Malcolmson made up his mind to go somewhere to read by himself. He feared the attractions of the seaside, and also he feared completely rural isolation, for of old he knew its charms, and so he determined to find some unpretentious little town where there would be nothing to distract him. He refrained from asking suggestions from any of his friends, for he argued that each would r...

They had chosen the rooms and the neighborhood with great care. There are evil neighborhoods of noise and evil neighborhoods of silence, and Eeldrop and Appleplex preferred the latter, as being the more evil. It was a shady street, its windows were heavily curtained; and over it hung the cloud of a respectability which has something to conceal. Yet it had the advantage of more riotous neighborhoods near by, and Eeldrop and Appleplex commanded from their windows the entra...

Excerpt: PREFACE; Sun Tzu and Information Warfare contains papers submitted by authors in response to an open international research competition sponsored by the Information Resources Management College, National Defense University and funded by the National Defense University Foundation.

Excerpt: The Waste Land by Thomas) Stearns) Eliot.

Vol. 20, 1925, was issued as the American journal of sociology, v. 32, no. 1, pt. 2, July 1926.

CANTO I: IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd there. How first I enter'd it I scarce can say, Such sleepy dullness in that instant weigh'd My senses down, ...

Excerpt: The Workers? Party of Korea was founded on October 10, 56 years ago, with the Down-with-Imperialism Union, which was formed on October 17, 1926, as its historic roots. On the occasion of the founding anniversary, the Korean people look back emotionally upon the history of the Party. The road it has followed has often been a hard one. The recent years of the ?Arduous March? were a particularly difficult time in the history of the Party, almost unprecedented since its foundation.

Excerpt: Chapter 1. JONATHAN HARKER?S JOURNAL 3 May. Bistritz. Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda?Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The impression I had was...

Excerpt: This animal has a large head, a very short neck, and prodigious long legs. He is the largest animal of the deer kind. In summer the flies bite him, and make him very uncomfortable.

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Statistical Reference Document

Introduction to the Economic Census: PURPOSES AND USES OF THE ECONOMIC CENSUS. The economic census is the major source of facts about the structure and functioning of the nation?s economy. It provides essential information for government, business, industry, and the general public. Title 13 of the United States Code (Sections 131, 191, and 224) directs the Census Bureau to take the economic census every 5 years, covering years ending in ?2? and ?7.? The economic census f...