Politicians have several times warned that there could be a Weimarisation of the postsocialist region, including Hungary. It should be remembered that it was mass unemployment and waves of inflation in Weimar Germany that led to mass disillusionment and rejection of the institutions of democracy and the parliamentary system. This economically-induced disillusionment provides a fertile breeding ground for demagogy, cheap promises and desires for iron-handed leadership.

The term “sale” does not include grants or purchases of options, exercises of call options, or enterings into contracts that require delivery of personal property or an interest therein.

[…] she recommends the scentmaker to put each kind of scent up in ounce bottles and label it twenty shillings.

The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life.