"The relationship of agency is one of the oldest and commonest codified codes of social interaction. We will say that an agency relationship has arisen between two parties when one, designated as the agent, acts for the other, designated the principal, in a particular domain of decision problems. Examples of agency are universal."

"aterials should resist mechanical forces and other effects... starting with all types of loading and external forces... and with the mechanical properties of the materials... constitutes the part give…"

"According to the pronouncements of our state rulers and their intellectual bodyguards , we are better protected and more secure than ever. We are supposedly protected from global warming and cooling, …"

"Apparently an "art"—which almost by definition cannot be put into words—is probably best communicated by approaching it from many sides and doing so repeatedly, hoping thereby students will finally ma…"

"Far from participating in a current literary scene agog with vogue and hyperbole, the LRB has kept what is widely perceived as a mandarin aloofness from it. Complicity with the institutions of literat…"