The One Hundred Days; 1965 Executive Actions; and the 1965—75 Timeframe

1965 ◽  
Vol 69 (657) ◽  
pp. 611-626
Author(s):  
Richard Worcester
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Government Investment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Heart And Mind

I took the unusual course of suggesting this lecture because I have something to say. I should have done this ten years ago. Better late than never. The position is that after £20 000 million spent on defence in the past 12 years, of which the air industry has had more than its full share, there is a culmination of industrial mismanagement, a crisis of confidence, a prevailing sense of bewilderment, an air of frustration and, therefore, a craving for new leadership in industry to make a true and worthy partnership of heart and mind with the active new leadership in Government. I sense moreover that behind the shadow boxing lies at this moment a more bi-partisan approach to meeting the future than immediately meets the eye. So this is not an exhortation but a demand to adopt new habits of thought that will lead to evolution of equipment calculated to sell well as a general rule instead of it being more the exception. And this is not a plea, but a demand, for a new resolve and leadership in industry coupled with a determination to make a better export showing in the 1970s on a smaller Government investment. The present Government's actions to promote research mergers and industrial co-operation with other countries seem a logical turning point for a re-start. So why not let us make resurgence date from now ?

scholarly journals Japanese Company Histories as Repositories of Tacit Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Cover Story ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Japanese Company ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Japanese Companies

A special issue commemorating 115 years of its publication of Shūkan Tōyō Keizai, devoted its cover story, comprising some 45 pages, to a survey of other Japanese companies that had passed the one hundred year milestone. Kunisada Fumitaka advises readers to seek the kind of tacit knowledge needed to revive Japanese economic engines by reading histories of successful companies that survived for more than a century,  “Company histories are treasure troves of business knowledge for turning point eras, such as the present. Read them!!” The appendices of shashi are rich in statistics, but the narrative portions of the books have their own value as primary sources as well. A well-known limitation of shashi is that the stories they tell are self- serving, extolling the feats of their founders and achievements over the years without any criticism. Those narratives can be used to derive insights into the past. Perhaps they can also be a stimulus for imagining the future.

scholarly journals Cocktails of pesticide residues in conventional and organic farming systems in Europe – legacy of the past and turning point for the future

2021 ◽  
pp. 116827
Author(s):  
Violette Geissen ◽  
Vera Silva ◽  
Esperanza Huerta Lwanga ◽  
Nicolas Beriot ◽  
Klaas Oostindie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
Pesticide Residues ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Organic Farming Systems

6. Formalities

Contract Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Ewan McKendrick
Keyword(s):  
General Rule ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law ◽  
Formal Requirements ◽  
Made In

Requirements of form (such as writing) are not as important today as they were in the past. As a general rule, contracts can be made in any form and can be proved by any means, although there remain exceptional cases where the law does insist upon requirements of form. This chapter, which considers the reasons for continued reliance upon requirements of form, along with the criticisms levelled against such requirements, begins by explaining why legal systems impose formal requirements upon contracting parties. It then outlines the formal requirements in English contract law, followed by a discussion of the future of formal requirements, noting the distinction between cases where the contract must be made in writing and cases in which contracts must be evidenced in writing.

6. Formalities

Contract Law ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewan McKendrick
Keyword(s):  
General Rule ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law ◽  
Formal Requirements ◽  
Made In

Requirements of form (such as writing) are not as important today as they were in the past. As a general rule, contracts can be made in any form and can be proved by any means, although there remain exceptional cases where the law does insist upon requirements of form. This chapter, which considers the reasons for continued reliance upon requirements of form, along with the criticisms levelled against such requirements, begins by explaining why legal systems impose formal requirements upon contracting parties. It then outlines the formal requirements in English contract law, followed by a discussion of the future of formal requirements, noting the distinction between cases where the contract must be made in writing and cases in which contracts must be evidenced in writing.

Ecologies of Oil and Trauma of the Future in Curse of the Black Gold

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-91
Author(s):  
Cajetan Iheka
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Ecological Degradation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site

Mineral extraction in Africa has exacerbated ecological degradation across the continent. This article focuses on the example of the Niger Delta scene of oil exploration depicted in Michael Watts and Ed Kashi’s multimedia project, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta. Analyzing the infringement on human and nonhuman bodies due to fossil fuel extraction, I read the Delta, inscribed in Watts and Kashi’s image-text, as an ecology of suffering and as a site of trauma. Although trauma studies tend to foreground the past and the present, I argue that Curse of the Black Gold invites serious consideration of trauma of the future, of-the-yet-to-come, in apprehending the problematic of suffering in the Delta. I conclude with a discussion of the ethics of representing postcolonial wounding, which on the one hand can create awareness of ecological degradation and generate affect, but which on the other hand, exploits the vulnerability of the depicted and leaves an ecological footprint.

scholarly journals The impact of adopting the euro on the Croatian economy

Notitia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
Zlatko Čehulić ◽  
Rajka Hrbić
Keyword(s):  
Positive Influence ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Term Basis ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

In this paper the impact of adopting the euro in Croatia is analysed using experiences of other countries which have passed through this process in the last decade and which are comparable with Croatia in many aspects. The process of adopting a currency different from the one that has been used for more than twenty years presents a very important economic question for each country. In this period preceding to adopting the euro, there is an opportunity to analyse this process in the countries which went through it in the past. The result of this paper shows the impacts of adopting the euro in the European countries. The selected countries, which are adequate for analysing the effects of adopting the euro, are: Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. These countries have been selected for different reasons. The majority of these countries have some similarities with Croatia, which are shown in this paper via relevant economic indicators. These results are significant for Croatia and show a positive influence on the Croatian market on a long-term basis. This paper is relevant and has a practical basis both for Croatia and other countries which will go through this process in the future.

On The Meaning of “Act of God”

1968 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon D. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Past ◽  
Biblical History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Biblical Faith ◽  
Song Of Moses ◽  
Do So

The concept, “act of God,” is central to the biblical understanding of God and his relation to the world. Repeatedly we are told of the great works performed by God in behalf of his people and in execution of his own purposes in history. From the “song of Moses,” which celebrates the “glorious deeds” (Ex. 15:11) through which Yahweh secured the release of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt, to the letters of Paul, which proclaim God's great act delivering us “from the dominion of darkness” (Col. 1:13) and reconciling us with himself, we are confronted with a “God who acts.” The “mighty acts” (Ps. 145:4), the “wondrous deeds” (Ps. 40:5), the “wonderful works” (Ps. 107:21) of God are the fundamental subject-matter of biblical history, and the object of biblical faith is clearly the One who has acted repeatedly and with power in the past and may be expected to do so in the future.

Memory of Futures

KronoScope ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Adam
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Modification ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Memory Aids ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Far Future

AbstractWe think of memories as being focused on the past. However, our ability to move freely in the temporal realm of past, present and future is far more complex and sophisticated than commonsense would suggest. In this paper I am concerned with our capacity to produce and extend ourselves into the far future, for example through nuclear power or the genetic modification of food, on the one hand, and our inability to know the potential, diverse and multiple outcomes of this technologically constituted futurity, on the other. I focus on this discrepancy in order to explore what conceptual tools are available to us to take account of long-term futures produced by the industrial way of life. And I identify some historical approaches to the future on the assumption that the past may well hold vital clues for today's dilemma, hence my proposal to engage in 'memory of futures'. I conclude by considering the potential of 'memory aids for the future' as a means to better encompass in contemporary concerns the long-term futures of our making.

The Role of the Learned Man in Government

1958 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul H. Nitze
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One

In the context of government, what do we mean by the phrase “a learned man”?* I take it we can mean a variety of things. On the one hand, we can have in mind the specialist, the expert, the man with an intensive and specialized background in a particular field of knowledge. On the other hand, we can have in mind the man with general wisdom, with that feeling for the past and the future which enriches a sense for the present, and with that appreciation for wider loyalties which deepens patriotism to one's country and finds bonds between it and Western culture and links with the universal aspirations of mankind.

Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952)

1975 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Looking Back

ON 30 March 1908, there was a sale of drawings and pictures in London, at Christie’s, and many of them came from the home of Mrs Caleb Rose of Ipswich—she died in May 1907 at the age of 89. Mrs Rose, the widow of Dr Caleb Rose, had been previously the wife of James Norton Sherrington of The Hall, Caister, near Norwich, and she was the greatly beloved mother of Charles Scott Sherrington. Looking back over exactly half a century I can place the Christie sale as the turning point of my father’s life; it meant for him that the home he had loved so much was gone for ever and, from that time onwards, the outlook was concentrated on the future not on the past, except for those unutterably happy memories which remained vivid to him until the very end, for he spoke to me of them with some yearning the evening before his death.

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