"These are orders taking place right now!" Fedel said.
If there is no longer a stock-exchange floor, nobody really cares where the matching and execution of orders takes place.
The divergence between the four Australian orders took place in a window of a few million years at the KPg boundary (Mitchell et al. 2014) hindering the accumulation of sufficient phylogenetic information to yield a clear species tree around 60 Myr later.
Inventory-tracking and ordering take place from wireless-pen-based PCs that Home Depot bought in 1998 to wheel up and down the aisles.
"There is a spontaneous ordering taking place," Jedlicka says.
Instead of being set in the nerve center of the newsroom, where editors bark and belt back whiskey, and reporters crack wise and fight over scoops, "Alphabetical Order" takes place entirely in the pokey library of the paper in question.
In all societies, Durkheim argued, an ordering takes place: certain acts are elevated from the mundane or the everyday – something Durkheim labelled the realm of the "profane" – to the level of the sacred, a sphere that's revered as inviolable.
The table next to us was entirely occupied by uniformed police officers, and much of the ordering took place by yelling back and forth between the tables and cashier.
Negotiations to hammer out the 2004 order took place over nearly a year and involved wrangling between the Pentagon and the C.I.A. and the State Department about the military's proper role around the world, several administration officials said.
The ordering takes place as the alkali metals combust.
