And that, as the jury correctly concluded, is not euthanasia; it is murder.RON PHILLIPSSan FranciscoMerger most foulSIR We cannot comment on whether the Federal Communications Commission will ultimately approve the SBC/Ameritech merger ("Bells and whistle-blowers", March 27th), but we can say that the benefits to consumers from deals such as this one appear vaporous at best.
Foreign cigarette makers, such as British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International, also have stakes in the industry, while other firms are working on their own vaporous offerings.E-cigarette executives dream of relegating traditional cigarettes to the ashtray of history.
His problem will be convincing sceptics that his sums add up, though it may well be that voters, battered by falling house prices and rising oil prices prefer not to worry too much about that.Both candidates have their flaws and their admirable points; the doughty but sometimes cranky old warrior makes a fine contrast with the inspirational but sometimes vaporous young visionary.
He is too fond of vaporous abstractions.
Inert gases are often used as the medium by which other materials, in a gaseous or vaporous state, are transported from the ovens or other sources where they have been gasified and through the jets that cool them and turn them into clusters.
Immediately after death, the soul is not clothed in a physical body but in a vaporous thumb-sized structure (linga ṡarīra).
His experience with the rigorous technical demands of this work changed his view of the medium, and after the war he replaced the rather vaporous symbolism of his earlier Pictorialist style with optical clarity and greater objectivity of description.
Using a restricted Neoclassical vocabulary and remaining unadventurous in versification, he nevertheless succeeded in creating through the musicality of his verse and his vaporous landscapes a sense of great longings unfulfilled.
The Vision of St. Anthony (1656), one of Murillo's most celebrated pictures, is an early example of his so-called "vaporous" style, which was derived from Venetian painting.
Another French physicist, Jean-Baptiste Biot, found in 1815 that liquid solutions of tartaric acid or of sugar are optically active, as are liquid or vaporous turpentine. Louis Pasteur was the first to recognize that optical activity arises from the dissymmetric arrangement of atoms in the crystalline structures or in individual molecules of certain compounds.
Driving down the bumpy track to Lavender Creek Farm, near the town of Otaki on the Kapiti Coast of North Island, we can smell the flowers before we can see them – a sweet, vaporous scent, carried on a warm spring breeze.
