Long gone are chartered airplane flights, luxury hotels and omnipresent television cameras that define a major league existence.
As state-owned oil companies in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela and elsewhere start to occupy the heights in the industry, the oil majors' very existence as we know them will be threatened.
Collectively, the results of this analysis suggest three major findings: (i) existence of spatial variation in risk, (ii) existence of apparent local spread, and (iii) possible existence of other mechanisms of spread.
Aquinas's Summa theologiae (1265/66 1273) purports to answer all the major questions of existence, including those of political philosophy.
The company, which emerged from bankruptcy-protection measures in September, is the final major manufacturer in existence following Fujifilm's decision to halt production last year.
Across great swaths of nature... the major puzzles of existence have been pulled to pieces in the hands... of all-conquering and -consuming scientific rationality".
In finger-wagging style, Mary Midgley warns that "serious scientists know that their enquiries are endless; any answers always raise a swarm of new questions" (Serious scientists know that they cannot explain all the major puzzles of existence, 28 August).
But they do not solve the major problem of existence or availability of the right information at the right time in the right place, and in the right understandable format.
The statement cites past opposition in the community to paid journals and the fact that all the major ones in existence charge nothing as well "The following list of researchers," it continues, "hereby state that they will not submit to, review, or edit for this new journal".
