My retail career began in a brick and mortar store, which is a highly execution-based arena.
Others may have bigger explosions or more ambitious storylines, but Die Hard is a peerless marriage of plot, arena, execution and cast.
Two recent failures by furniture sellers show that the furniture business is joining the retail clothing business in a much more competitive arena where poor execution is increasingly fatal.
"Much of the worst persecution of which there is reliable testimony was that initiated by Diocletian in A.D. 303, which included ruthless executions, torture, deaths in the arena and condemnations to imprisonment or to work in the mines," says "History of the World: Prehistory to the Renaissance," edited by Esmond Wright.
He is said to have risen with the crowd after gladiatorial matches and given unrestrained praise to the fighters, and he was criticized for not leaving the arena during the executions as was the custom among the noble classes.
A large number of assays have been developed that allow indirect behavioral profiling of motor deficits either by manual qualitative assessments, the automatic quantification of motor activity in an open arena [ 4], or motor performance tests scoring the execution of a specific motor task.
Alongside her literary scholarship, she has published extensively on the spectacles of the Roman arena, starting with the article "Fatal charades: Roman executions staged as mythological enactments," Journal of Roman Studies 80 (1990), 44 73.
Sulpicius Maximus, Poet, Eleven Years Old," to appear with the University of Michigan Press; a study of arena spectacles for Yale University Press; and a monograph on Roman public executions for OUP.
Later in Roman times, lions were kept by emperors to take part in the gladiator arenas or for executions (see bestiarii, damnatio ad bestias, and venatio).
