The Li were absentee landlords. They lived in Chengtu, the capital of Szechwan, and hardly ever saw their land, which was cultivated by tenants and administered by a manager who brought the rent to his employers in the city.

Timmy coughed and groaned, because his ribs hurted him.

One assumption that virtually all organizational theories and theorists seem to share is that every organization will devote itself to its own self-perpetuation. Experience suggests this assumption is generally well founded.

There appears to be no prospect of success in attempting to combat the crisis by international arrangement, and any improvement in sugar prices can only be looked for from a diminution of the production, either as a consequence of deficient crops, or of a reduction in manufacture.