I can't believe that your concept of masculinity involves that much petty vanity and pointless displays of competitive ego in some... self-invented contest," she concludes - not seeing that if it were not for petty vanity and pointless displays of competitive ego, mostly in meaningless self-invented contests, we would have no concept of masculinity at all.
Experiments involving subliminal "number priming" show that much of what our mind does with numbers is unconscious, a finding that has led Dehaene to wonder why some mental activity crosses the threshold of awareness and some doesn't.
Academic studies of a similar operation in 1975 (in which both Paul O'Neill, today's treasury secretary, and Vice-President Dick Cheney were closely involved) suggest that much of the money was saved.
By developing these relationships, Green Power will allow the firms to become familiar with not only the services offered by Green Power, but also the personalities involved, recognizing that much of business is transacted by who you know.
An administration official involved in the Colombia efforts said that much of the money would go to southern Colombia, the region with the most coca fields.
Note that much of this involves selling things directly to the public — not through retailers or distributors.
Officials decided on a military rather than a civil trial, claming that much of the material involved is classified.
Of course, we get to see only the highlights, and it's easy to imagine that much of the output involved must have been unspeakably dire.
Empiricists pointed out that trade took place largely between countries with seemingly similar factor endowments, and that much of this trade involved intra-industry exchanges of seemingly similar products.
What has received less attention is the fact that most intelligence work today is not carried out by government agencies but by private intelligence firms and that much of that work involves another common aspect of intelligence work: deception.
