The pocket-book was a late present from Mrs Western […] . A prudent person […] would not have offered more than a shilling, or perhaps sixpence, for it; nay, some perhaps would have given nothing, and left the fellow to his action of trover, which some learned serjeants may doubt whether he could, under these circumstances, have maintained.

a man on the shady side of fifty

There are two distinct ways in which tied aid can undermine the value of aid to the recipient: overpricing and distorting the nature of aid.

Up to now, Purdue has focused on two scientific papers published in 2005 that Dr. Taleyarkhan hailed as independent confirmation of his sonofusion results.