They wrote a book each, bending close to the page to append a spidery signature; they gave talks to schools, colleges, servicemen's associations, in voices that had almost worn away.
Only now are some of these problems being tackled in the few markets that are not dying a slow death.On a larger scale, each local capital market is facing a choice: should it fight for its national identity, or append itself to a pan-European exchange?
HAVING just returned from Birmingham, where I expected to attend a wedding and went to a burial instead, I would like to append one point to my colleague's analysis of Ron Sparks's defeat of Artur Davis, and that is that Barack Obama had one immense advantage that Artur Davis lacked: he was Barack Obama, and not Artur Davis.
Note to all politicians, entertainers, spouses, golfers and anyone else who might need to make an apology in your lifetimes: do not append "if you are offended" at the end of your apology.
Her support for an unsuccessful scheme to append a shopping mall to the Taj Mahal, which is in UP, does not speak well of her judgment.
The firm's software also lets users append notes to e-textbooks and convert these notes into electronic study cards that can be used for revision.All this will not be of much use without millions of iPad-toting students.
A peace treaty to which King John was forced to append his seal by a group of rebellious barons in 1215, it has gone on to become a symbol of liberty and individual freedoms through the ages and around the world.
Alas, the voters did not append any fine print, and Mr McConnell and his colleagues are already arguing over how, exactly, to proceed.
The best they can do, as Michigan did, is to append a table showing "ballot-box votes on the definition of marriage" that a ruling in favour of same-sex marriage would overturn.
Miss Mayawati's was accused of wrongdoing over a foiled plan to append a shopping mall to the Taj Mahal, UP's and India's most famous monument; Mr Yadav is under investigation, at the order of the Supreme Court, for being suspiciously rich.
Many firms The Economist included automatically append these sorts of disclaimers to every message sent from their e-mail servers, no matter how brief and trivial the message itself might be.E-mail disclaimers are one of the minor nuisances of modern office life, along with fire drills, annual appraisals and colleagues who keep sneezing loudly.
