In it, Woolf - using established letter-writing conventions - takes advantage of the time lapses between exchanges to recuperate, clarify, recast and take control of the argument.
Throughout, he has toyed affectionately with mystery-fiction conventions and old-movie style, and his dash and flair have carried us along.
The final unit is to be for visiting shows (including exhibitions from Cleveland) and for a variety of events from fan-club conventions to music-industry conferences.
As a result, the group is about to revamp its lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill and in states like Colorado and Minnesota--which will host the presidential nominating conventions later this year--to turn the tides on union expansion.
Ms. Harris has cultivated followers in each category by attending the major romance-, fantasy- and crime-fiction conventions.
But instead of dropping price improvement or addressing customer problems, Lutnick slapped BrokerTec with a suit, claiming it had violated eSpeed's patents on such bond-trading conventions as the "work-up" (a practice that gave a trader, buying or selling at a given price, the right to execute all trading at that price until he's done) and "trading time" (the grace period a trader has to act under a work-up).
Other sectors of the tourist industry - from hotels to shops and conventions - are also suffering as travellers opt to stay at home.
Star Wars is, of course, a mishmash of B-movie and sci-fi conventions: laser pistols, hyperdrive ships and funny little men.
If Uruguay does approve the controlled legal sale of cannabis, that will put it in breach of the UN's drug-control conventions, which prohibit drug sales for non-medical use.
Both of these substances have well-established conventions for their use, and these conventions limit their social side-effects.
Meredith McGehee, policy director for the Campaign Legal Center, says over-the-top wining and dining, a hallmark of past conventions, is probably a thing of the past--but there will still be "a fair amount of partying" going on.
Through a specific system for monitoring the Convention established by UNESCO - which was the first of its kind in monitoring and evaluation of United Nations conventions - individual reports will be presented.
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They have sought out novel venues, colonizing clubs and bars, and seem skilled at persuading non-music-major friends to stop by, so that concerts feel less like airport-hotel conventions and more like entertainments.
The CBD website in turn hosts intergovernmental platforms for the Rio Conventions and the Biodiversity-related Conventions .
Time magazine, for example, has formed a partnership with Foursquare, a location-based mobile check-in service, for the conventions, in which Time has provided content that users can unlock when they get to certain locations in Tampa and Charlotte.
The compact disc player, high-definition television and Blu-ray each debuted at past conventions.
The post-1914 era was no gold-standard period, certainly not in the classical sense of there being adhered-to, multi-lateral consensus about sticking to gold conventions.
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"The most fun I have is when I'm a pirate, because you can drink and carry on and act out and stagger, and guys will throw their girls at you to take a picture, " said Robert Bean, a master technician for Toyota by day and " Pirate Cutthroat Robert" -- "Pirate Bob" for short -- at festivals, conventions, parades and pirate events.
We just came out of convention season, and we had two conventions -- one in Tampa, and one in Charlotte.
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Voters at large generally don't pay much close attention to the presidential race until after the conventions -- which is now.
Social media has blown-to-bits all the business card conventions I learned growing up.
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The conventions of the genre -- bumbling frantic action, verbal pyrotechnic -- feel imposed rather than organic.
She knows enough about the conventions of memoir-writing to understand that some kind of transformation is generally required.
Parliaments are legally entitled to ratify treaties and international conventions - there is no particular need for national referendums on European issues.
In this area, there are laws to consider, conventions to consider - but, above all, the impact upon popular opinion to consider.
Going back as far as the selection conventions, a mix-up with mobile phones led to David McClarty listening to his answer phone and hearing an opponent label him a "spent force".
The Council of Europe, a continent-wide talking-shop that is the guardian of many international legal conventions, has a treaty on cybercrime dating from 2001.
Most disagreed with the notion that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to terrorists - even though none apparently had even read the conventions as some of us have.
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Xcel Energy (nyse: XEL - news - people ), which is providing power to both conventions, will give delegates tours of wind farms in Minneapolis and Denver.
When it came to balancing this priority against the interests of active participants in conflict, especially irregular forces who for tactical reasons choose to go "underground" and not distinguish themselves from civilians, the Geneva Conventions clearly favored the non-combatant.
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