Brancusi was born a long way from the arcades and boulevards, in the village of Hobitza in Romania, in 1876; his father was estate manager of lands belonging to the local monastery, a job that probably had not changed much since the middle ages.
He attended the Michigan School of Mines (now Michigan Technological University) in 1910, became a geologist, and worked for Union Oil as Manager of Lands and Foreign Exploration helping to develop the first wells in Mexico and Venezuela.
"We're interested in smart growth," said Sam Surtees, West Windsor's manager of land use.
It was not the first such problem with the four-year-old system, which connects the airport's three terminals to each other and to outlying parking and rental car locations, said Huntley A. Lawrence, manager of land operations for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Sylviane de Tracy, manager of land programs for the cruise line, said that the programs had been "extremely popular" during the past five years, but cited concern for the dolphins' well-being in captivity and the contradiction posed by the cruise line's environmental education programs as reasons for the decision.
There was no law compelling local authorities or managers of land to place lifeguards on beaches, he said, and the decision was often made on the basis of whether there was a trade-off to the cost.
For coastal regions where TCs exert their greatest damage, owners and managers of land are both producers and consumers of many of these services.
Mr. Mercer, 30, is the general manager of the Landing, a restaurant in New Hope, Pa.
"Ten percent of cars we sell end up with a Rosen video screen and DVD player," said Phil Vass, manager of a Land Rover dealership in Mission Viejo, Calif.
"We were selling one a month, and now we're selling three a month," said Bill Hogan, manager of a Land Rover dealership in Parsippany, N.J.
For example, Kyle Ekinci, general manager of Sunny Land Tours, 166 Main Street, Hackensack, N.J. 07601, (800) 783-7839, fax (201) 487-1546, www.sunnylandtours.com, said it could arrange for a guide to tour the Turkish side or even a stay at a beach resort there.
