However, this seems like a semantic problem that could be largely solved by mandating that the CIA specialists in question be granted military ranks and ordered to wear uniforms while sitting at their computer terminals.
The gag in question was granted last month at the request of Trafigura, an oil firm, to prevent publication of the details of a report related to the dumping of toxic waste in Côte d'Ivoire.
The four contracts in question were granted between 1998 and 2000 to Mr. Arred's company, County Site Development, to fix damage to roads and a dam in northern Westchester.
The patent in question was granted back in 2009, to a company called HW Technology.
Microsoft claims that "almost all" the patents in question were "granted by countries other than Korea," making Samsung's appeal to Korean authorities off-kilter to Microsoft.
In the Q&A session for media after the speech, one question was granted to an audience member rather than a journalist, who asked, "Please will you hurry up and be our Prime Minster?" Journalists rolled their eyes, but this speech was more about politicking than anything else, so a soft-ball question like this was strangely on the nose.
Both men nimbly sidestepped the question from the French and German media (no questions were granted to non-French, non-German media), and a few months back they also announced the creation of a high-level joint Franco-German working group on economic policy and fortnightly sessions of the two ministers.
The antiheroic nature of the two moments — war by deception and then by determination, more than by strategic coups — raises the big question: Was Grant a great general?
#CadaanStudies challenges us to continuously ask the question: Who is granted the privilege of telling these narratives and why?
In addition to the moving screens a delicate grid of wires floats in the air above the action; the idea of transmission, and how faulty it can be, is everywhere reinforced, as is the question of who is granted access to what.
