Thus, the geography of the book circles and doubles, with long footnotes to take the spread.
Only in today's regulatory climate could such a simple idea become so complex, generating a rule whose preamble alone is 215 pages, with 381 footnotes to boot.
The Davis Polk document, well written and with clear footnotes to its sources, provides transparency and style, a great improvement over most pro-megabank writing that I have reviewed here over the years.
In either language the book is often difficult to wade through, with few footnotes to guide the way, and it has a breathless, rough-and-ready quality that feels as though the author had been bursting to get all her thoughts down on the page at once -- a reflection of Beauvoir's having written quickly, over a period of about two years also devoted to other projects.
He referred to drinking urine and eating feces as "common homosexual practices," and he peppered his book with 352 footnotes to convey the impression that he had done scholarly research and that scientific data supported his claims.
After the hearings, W. Ron DeHaven, DVM, who was the USDA's top vet before leaving for industry and helming the AVMA, penned a rambling, almost incoherent 18-page letter with 62 footnotes to the FDA.
(In Japan, for example, the formula for determining this would be 106.1 x [100 - 40.9] = 62.7. To see a comparison at incomes of €100,000 and €50,000 and our underlying assumptions (with footnotes), go to www.forbes.com/misery.
If you're reading a book with footnotes, switching to the back-of-the-book notes can leave you feeling at sea, uncertain you'll get back to the right page afterwards (another benefit of sticking your thumb in to hold your place in a real book).
