"Nothing feeds the rumor mill like a lack of information".
Before Twitter, news of celebrity feuds spread like wildfire the old-fashioned way through the rumor mill like an elaborate game of telephone.
"It could be an additional process of milling, like a mortar and pestle," said Ken Alibek, a former Soviet germ-warfare official who is now president of Advanced Biosystems, a consulting company in Manassas, Va.
"This is like an automatic factory, like a flour mill connected with some bakery," one of them said.
But Sollac and other steel mills like it operate in a desperately bleak environment.
They were issued for worthless or highly overpriced degrees at "paper mills" like the University of Phoenix.
Next you crush the malted barley in a mill: "Like taking the wrapper off a candy," says Glenlivet's Logan.
The official report the following year, written by Edmund Burke, foresaw that the EIC's financial problems could potentially "like a mill-stone, drag [the government] down into an unfathomable abyss … This cursed Company would, at last, like a viper, be the destruction of the country which fostered it at its bosom".
But he concedes that many of the transactions involve small lots–"It's some executive at a mill who likes the idea doing a trial".
Mill, like his father, was a determinist with regard to social phenomena, but from Comte he had absorbed the idea that social change proceeds in a series of stages: there are "critical periods," in which old institutions are overthrown, and these are followed by "organic periods," in which new forms of social structure emerge and are consolidated.
