By Alastair Reid The New Yorker, March 26 , 1960P. 149 This hand, surrendered up View Article By Jia Tolentino By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Sam Knight.
This is an important principle of information economics: Market power is rarely seized so much as it is surrendered up, and that surrender is born less of a deliberate decision than of going with the flow.
This hand, surrendered up.
This week, against the background of another world financial crisis, a humbled GM offered to surrender up to 50% of its stake in Opel in a bid to persuade the German government to rescue its subsidiary from insolvency.Opel is not a basket case.
In a move that animal rights activists claim as a victory, the Coulston Foundation, the largest primate research facility in the United States, has agreed to surrender up to 300 chimpanzees--half its current chimp population--by January 2002.
As part of a 1999 settlement with the USDA, Coulston agreed to surrender up to 300 of its chimpanzees by January 2002 (ScienceNOW, 2 September 1999), and McKinney says the 288 chimps, plus 21 animals slated to retire and move to a sanctuary, would bring Coulston into compliance with that agreement.
If, later, he became cocksure as college track meets and national records surrendered themselves up to him, it is not difficult to see why.
When the fighting is over, Wardaddy pulls a surrendering German up in front of the squad.
But again and again in "The Children," we saw people surrender, give up, accept a hard truth or a painful reality.
Their evasion of the issue and lack of action are common manipulation tactics: They know that to win against this movement, they must first make us surrender, raise up that little white flag in our head.
At this point General Matsui had a "summons to surrender" drawn up which implored the Chinese to send military envoys to Nanking's Zhongshan Gate to discuss terms for the peaceful occupation of the city, and he then had a Mitsubishi Ki-21 scatter thousands of copies of the message over the city.
