And, lest anyone think the job is easy, Mr. Lovejoy, a deeply earnest young man with a blond ponytail and a quick smile, offers words that seem to echo the oil titan John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s famous observation that he found it harder to give away money intelligently than he did to make it.
Whenever he could not be there personally -- a cumulative total of only a couple of hundred times over the more than 25,500 days of his observation career -- he found a substitute, usually his father, or later his son, to "take the weather".
But its value as a corrective is undermined, at times, by statements like one writer's observation that he finds "few redeeming qualities" to the entire Police Department, or the gratuitous mention that his welfare commissioner was born in Connecticut, as if geography deprived him of empathy.
These grand reveries about the moment when the world emerged from chaos are matched by Turner's observation of contemporary society, where he found the same spectacle of creation and destruction happening simultaneously.
The French biologist Claude Bernard provided the classical observation of this effect when he found that changing the diet of rabbits from an herbivore (mainly plant) diet to a carnivore (mainly meat) diet changed the urine from more alkaline to more acid.
Since he had never had any reaction from eating chocolate before, he found this observation so striking that he reported it to his doctor.
Gabon has less of the black stuff, but in his book "Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil", John Ghazvinian shared a troubling observation: he couldn't find a banana for sale, though the country is full of banana trees.The real trouble comes when gas prices drop or the fuel runs out and traditional sectors, like agriculture and manufacturing, are unable to prop up the economy.
In our observations, we found four males for every female.
The observations are found to be very encouraging.
The required covariances of the observations are found by simulation.
