"Project Entropia" and its sort are intended to be realistic alternative realities, often with a strong libertarian and free-trade bent.
About twice the size of New Jersey with a population of 16.5 million, the Kingdom of the Netherlands is a prosperous and open economy with a bent toward trading with the world.
Although no German town has escaped this country's 20th-century trauma -- Hamburg was heavily bombed in World War II -- it often seems that the practical bent of the trading towns has enabled them to heal their wounds faster.
Run by the Bookseller magazine's diarist, Horace Bent, a legendary book-trade figure, the winners seem to have been settled by an anonymous group, probably over port at a London club.
This differentiates Labour from the Conservatives, who are hell-bent on promoting free trade by crashing out of a massive trading bloc at almost any cost so we can all be feasting on buckets of chlorinated chicken from Trump's America as we lament the death of the Good Friday Agreement.
Male building frame and related trade workers were exposed mainly to work in bent posture (63%), carrying bricks (21%), and carrying wooden parts (6%).
It is composed of career number-crunchers of no known ideological bent who try to measure the trade-offs inherent in regulatory action.
On one side, hard-liners, including Bannon, who has said he believes that China is "bent on world domination," advocated a confrontational stance on trade and other issues.
Damage usually happens to the corners of hardcover books, which can get bent (or "bumped," as they say in the book trade).
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, preserving an adobe stronghold and trading post (1833), lies just east of the city, and petroglyphs can be seen at the nearby Purgatoire River valley.
That it rose at all is a sign that the Chinese bent to political pressure.Admittedly, last year's rise in the yuan's trade-weighted value followed three years of decline.
