"Universal Exports" is the cover name for the company where 007 pretends to work, and the label could be applied, with no problem, to the British monarchy, and to the noisy, quirk-strewn parade — ancient but childish, upstanding but self-jibing — that Danny Boyle put on last night.
It's a tempting thought that Descartes was no more the father of modern philosophy than James Bond was a salesman for Universal Exports — that all his geometry and metaphysics was merely a cover for some clandestine derring-do — but Grayling doesn't go quite so far.
The code name for the British Secret Service in both the books and the films was "Universal Exports".
The sequence begins with Bond laying flowers at the grave of his wife, Tracy Bond, before a Universal Exports helicopter picks him up for an emergency.
But for the fact that, like Eve, the new M, despite his very familiar leather and wood office, practically out of the old Universal Exports set, is a different sort of figure.
Academic Paul Stock argues that M's office and Universal Exports by extension is a metonym for England, whilst he sees M as being an iconic representative of England and Englishness.
Resulting base 2 logarithms of expression ratios (subject over universal control) were exported from Rosetta Resolver for further analysis.
It has 60% of its domestic universal joint market and exports to more than 40 countries, giving it a 2% global share.
The universal precursor ALA is exported to the cytosol and converted into the intermediate metabolites porphobilinogen, hydroxymethylbilane, uroporphyrinogen III and coproporphyrinogen III.
