When I was growing up, honesty was the prime foundation in anyone's life.
"Anatomy," wrote Andreas Vesalius in 1543, "is an important part of natural philosophy; since it embraces the study of man and must properly be regarded as the prime foundation of the whole art of medicine and the source of everything that constitutes it".
The properties and the rationale behind the existing system can be elicited by analysing concrete system-usage scenarios [Pohl, K., Weidenhaupt, K., Dömges, R., Haumer, P., Jarke, M., Klamma, R., 1999. Process-integrated (modelling) environments (PRIME): foundation and implementation framework. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 343 410].
They rest on the prime foundation on which human civilization rests: trust.
"By working with PRIME, foundations can fund the world-changing companies of tomorrow, enjoy best-in-class investment expertise without footing the bill alone, address climate change directly, and get their grants back to redeploy," Kearney says.
Goddet ran the tour from 1936 to 1987 and, as founder of the French sports newspaper l'Equipe, and a prime mover in the foundation of the European football clubs' cup (a precursor of the Champions League), athletics' European Nations' Cup and skiing's world cup, he was a definitive figure of French sport in the 20th century.
In fact, it seems to be a prime goal of the foundation to put its charges, from 14 to 20 years old, in vivid touch not only with music-making at the highest level but also with the nation's recent history, good and bad; last year the orchestra performed Verdi's Requiem at Theresienstadt, the former concentration camp in the Czech Republic.
His grandfather was Shigeru Yoshida, a prime minister who laid the foundations for Japan's post-war recovery.
Maybe an awkward geek of a prime minister, with a good intellectual foundation, cautious and thoughtful, thinking things through, is precisely what we need.
That sort of foundation is likely a prime target for a slice of the $20 million in funding that will be doled out by the government in the next few years.
A good way to prevent future infestations is to make sure that you do not have an accumulation of water near your home's foundations as this a prime habitat for subterranean termites.
