CAMILLO. Sir, my lord, I could do this; and that with no rash potion, But with a ling'ring dram, that should not work Maliciously like poison: but I cannot Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress, So sovereignly being honourable.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

Surprisingly, or not so to me, the best is the Pacific crab claw rig, closely followed by the Arab dhow or lateen sail, and the standing lug.

Definition 2.3.1 A p-adic norm on vector space V over K is a function 𝛼:V→ R satisfying: a) 𝛼(x)>0 and 𝛼(x)=0 if and only if x=0. b) 𝛼(ax)=|a|𝛼(x) for a∈K and x∈V. c) 𝛼(x+y)0, then the dilation t𝛼 is a p-adic norm, and we denote by N_p(V) the set of dilation classes of p-adic norms on V.