CHRIS SWANN takes on the meme that the current downturn is a "man-cession"—that is, a contraction that has hit men relatively hard.
In the lexicon of the modern recession, he has found himself at the center of the "man-cession," the downturn that has hit men much harder than women.
C. 1048 Humbert I, byname Humbert the Whitehanded, Italian Umberto Biancamano (died c. 1048) count of Savoy and founder of the house of Savoy, whose services to the Holy Roman emperor Conrad II were rewarded with the cession of lands that placed him in control of the strategic Alpine passes between Italy and France.
This cession of a tract that included the Chicago and Des Plaines rivers and the portage between them, was the first acquisition of lands for the avowed purpose of the construction of a canal to join the waters of the Lake Michigan and the Illinois.
The controversy continued up to the cession under the act of 1889 and was adjusted and composed in that cession.
No action or proceeding pending before any court or agency of the United States immediately prior to any cession of jurisdiction by the United States pursuant to this subchapter shall abate by reason of that cession.
Maryland ceded to the United States the county of Washington, and Congress accepted that cession also.
Her latest book, "An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States," published this year by the University of California Press, is a political history of the Spanish language in the United States from the incorporation in 1848 of the Mexican Cession — the region that Mexico ceded after its war with the United States — through World War II.
Immediately after the election the British foreign secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, and the French premier, Pierre Laval, put together a plan for the rescue of part of Ethiopia that required the cession of certain areas to Italy.
Still shaken by the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, he confronts the potential political consequences of a cession of Louisiana to France that might result in a denial of American access to the Mississippi.
