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  SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Quid Pro Quo
The quid pro quo for this involvement is mutual respect for the confidentiality of the pre-negotiation discussions and adherence to the resulting "U.K. position" when dealing with other states.
And he dismissed the quid pro quo expectations of the evangelicals who held their fire through the Roberts hearings only because they were certain a right-wing activist someone clearly on record as eager to overturn Roe was right behind.
The quid pro quo proposed by Riyadh and Cairo is a halt on US and international pressure on the Syrian regime to mend its ways, the suspension foAmerican economic sanctions and the resumption of economic assistance in the framework of a generous US-Saudi aid package to build a modern economy.
www.lawkt.com /files/Quid_Pro_Quo.html   (4391 words)

  
 Joel Israel, Quid Without A Quo: Harassment Law Changes Its Terminology Without Changing Its Meaning, 10 Duke J. of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the context of a refusal case, the substance of the claim is that a tangible job benefit or detriment was conditioned on the employee submitting to the supervisor's sexual flmail and that adverse consequences followed from her refusal to submit.
The quid pro quo proposition is still important evidence, just as it is in an adverse job action case; indeed, the quid pro quo submission case with its express threat of retaliation will often prove stronger than many environmental harassment claims.
Additionally, because quid pro quo refers to both retaliation and submission cases, the term is overly broad, as it does not specify whether there was a threat or promise, a submission or resistance, whether a job was gained or lost, or if the damages were economic or emotional.
www.law.duke.edu /journals/djglp/articles/gen10p247.htm   (11281 words)

  
 Press Release N° 149
Betel quid generally consists of betel leaf (from the Piper betle vine), areca nut (from the Areca catechu tree), and slaked lime (predominantly calcium hydroxide), to which tobacco is often added.
Betel quid is chewed for many reasons, including for its stimulant effects, to satisfy hunger, to sweeten the breath, and as a social and cultural practice.
The new evaluation of betel quid without tobacco was made possible by recent epidemiologic studies from parts of the world where tobacco generally is not added to the betel quid.
www.iarc.fr /ENG/Press_Releases/archives/pr149a.html   (798 words)

  
 Quid Pro Quo goes to Washington
Garrett Zuercher wrote “Quid Pro Quo” as part of his senior thesis while a student at Marquette University.
“Quid Pro Quo” chronicles the relationship between two college students, Lucas and Lindsey, and is a character study of being deaf in a hearing world.
Now, “Quid Pro Quo” has been invited to be performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C in April.
www.marquette.edu /opa/newsroom/news/pr032404.shtml   (473 words)

  
 Betel Quid (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Supplement7, 1987)
In chewers of betel quid with tobacco, a statistically significant increase in risk was also observed for cancers of the oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx and oesophagus [ref: 1].
Aqueous extracts of betel quid without tobacco were tested in mice by gastric intubation and by subcutaneous administration; an increased incidence of local tumours was observed after subcutaneous injection.
Chewing of betel quid with or without tobacco increased the frequencies of micronucleated cells in the buccal mucosa of chewers; dose-dependence was observed in relation to the number of betel quids chewed per day.
www.inchem.org /documents/iarc/suppl7/betelquid.html   (848 words)

  
 Chapter Quid <i>to</i> Quixada of Q by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
Quid pro Quo Tit for tat; a return given as good as that received; a Roland for an Oliver; an equivalent.
Quid Rides It is said that Lundy Foot, a Dublin tobacconist, set up his carriage, and asked Emmett to furnish him with a motto.
Schoolmen say Quid est (what is it?) and the reply is, the Quid is so and so, the What or the nature of the thing is as follows.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1182/23793/1.html   (577 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | dummy | Why do we refer to a pound as a ''quid''?
Brewster's suggests it comes from 'quid pro quo', an equivalent amount for something, and also suggests that it originally referred to a sovereign.
English soldiers adopted the reference to what they heard as "quid", to mean the pound.
Peter, Slough UK I have no way of backing this up, but I was once told that it comes from the QUID in the term 'liquid assets'.
www.guardian.co.uk /notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-22239,00.html   (294 words)

  
 quid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
quid is an occasional journal of poetics, criticism, invective and investigation.
Made to the least exacting standards and distributed in a flurry of necessity and relevance: name = cost = image.
You end up with THIS, with QUID 11, a document with certain priorities.
www.geocities.com /barque_press/quid.html   (1308 words)

  
 Betel-quid and areca-nut chewing and some areca-nut related nitrosamines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The working group evaluated betel quid with tobacco as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) on the basis of sufficient evidence of an increased risk of cancer of the oral cavity, pharynx and oesophagus.
Betel quid with tobacco was evaluated previously as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), on the basis of sufficient evidence of an increased risk of oral cancer in humans and limited evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals.
Betel quid without tobacco was evaluated previously as not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity (Group 3), on the basis of inadequate evidence of human carcinogenicity and limited evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals.
monographs.iarc.fr /htdocs/announcements/vol85.htm   (494 words)

  
 ON THIS DAY | 12 | 1984: Quid notes out - pound coins in
Mr Lawson said the note - popularly known as a "quid" - would be phased out and replaced by coins which were introduced last April.
Quids out: £1 notes are being replaced by coins
The US authorities did not try again until 2000, when a $1 coin was again introduced, this time to be used in tandem with the bill.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/12/newsid_2518000/2518637.stm   (444 words)

  
 K Foundation Burn a Million Quid - Chris Brook, ed.
One thing their K Foundation did with these riches was sponsor an Anti-Turner Prize for worst British artist, awarding it to Rachel Whiteread (who also won the actual Turner Prize in the same year) and giving her £ 40,000 for the honour.
While a million quid is a drop in the bucket it does have an effect on national money supply.
Publicity stunt, social commentary, or art-act their burning of a million quid will go down as one of the defining statements of this brief era.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/drummb/kburn.htm   (1268 words)

  
 Quid nominis vs. quid rei
Sicut a Graeco quaerentibus nobis quid nominis anthropos, si digito ostendatur homo iam percipimus quid nominis, et similiter de aliis.
This is the essential difference between the quid nominis and the quid rei: namely, that the quid nominis is the relation of the name to what it signifies; but the quid rei is the essence of the thing related or signified.
And it is from this difference that all the rest that are usually enumerated follow: namely, that the quid nominis is of nonentities, complexes, by accidental, common, and external properties; while the quid rei is of incomplex entities [grasped] by their proper, essential properties.
www.fordham.edu /gsas/phil/klima/medphil/QUID.htm   (1521 words)

  
 Quid Pro Quo
The play was performed by fellow students under Zuercher's direction and it received excellent reviews, surpassing the playwright's expectations and gaining praise in the theater community.
The Marquette cast will perform “Quid Pro Quo” at Illinois State University on January 16 at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
If selected to continue, “Quid Pro Quo” could go on to be performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. later this spring.
www.marquette.edu /opa/newsroom/news/pr010704.shtml   (412 words)

  
 (GC6033) Quid by SFTAB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Quid is Part I of the "Quid Pro Quo" cache.
Quid is a great little hike along the shores of Harris Lake.
Hiked back out to Quid today to help the SF Junior Medical Sergeant travel bug achieve the first of its three goals.
www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=24627   (474 words)

  
 Quid Nimis - Journal - We respond to Playgirl
To make it a bit more interesting and competitive, Quid Nimis' list expanded eligibility to include hosts and regular commentators and guys under the age of 70.
Quid Nimis does not, however, want to contend for next year's "Best SciFi Blog" award.
Tony Blankley: For the purposes of the Official Quid Nimis "Sexiest Commentator" poll, Tony Blankley is like Don Rumsfeld: he has a constituency of one.
quidnimis.squarespace.com /journal/2005/1/2/we-respond-to-playgirl.html   (521 words)

  
 Quid Pro Quo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Quid Pro Quo may not be the most popular Macintosh-based HTTP available, but it has just about every feature of the leader and the price certainly is right.
Launch Quid Pro Quo and you will be asked a few configuration questions.
After running through the configuration section Quid Pro Quo will complete its startup functions and you can open up a connection to yourself through your WWW browser.
www.infomotions.com /musings/waves/quidproquo.html   (311 words)

  
 Asia Times -
ISLAMABAD - The amity between the military-backed government and right-wingers, and their near agreement to end the country's persistent political deadlock, may involve a quid pro quo that could strengthen religious conservatism in Pakistan.
Although any agreement between the religious parties and the government will put to rest debate over the controversial constitutional amendments that President General Pervez Musharraf enacted before the national 2002 elections, commonly known as the Legal Framework Order or LFO, the deal will come at a price.
If the religious parties agree to support the amendments to the constitution in the parliament, obviously they will want concessions in return," said a member of the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) or Q-League, the largest political party in the ruling coalition, requesting anonymity.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EI20Df01.html   (863 words)

  
 Salon.com Politics | The real quid pro quo in Washington
But no congressional committee is trying to uncover the quid pro quo in H.R. 333, the first major piece of legislation to come out of the 107th Congress.
And as possible evidence, we were told that Denise Rich's contributions spiked shortly after Team Rich first raised the idea in e-mails of enlisting the fugitive's ex to plead for the pardon.
Although we can't prove a legislative quid pro quo any more than we can prove that there was a connection between the Rich Wing of the Clinton Library and the pardon, both Rich's and the credit card companies' largess were handsomely rewarded.
www.salon.com /politics/feature/2001/03/06/bankruptcy   (1142 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: quid
U could get that whore for a quid
That guy is such a quid, he's so far in the closet he's in Narnia.
Wow, some really messed up verions of what this word means on the street...
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=quid&r=f   (205 words)

  
 WebSiphon User's Guide: Using WebSiphon with Quid Pro Quo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Whether installing WebSiphon as a pre-processor or as an action, this documentation assumes either a copy or an alias of the WebSiphon.acgi is in a folder named "cgi-bin" located in the root directory of your server.
Quid Pro Quo is now properly configured for use and will process all files ending with the suffix ".t" using WebSiphon.
Quid Pro Quo is now properly configured to use WebSiphon as a pre-processor.
www.itsamac.com /websiphondocs/using/qpq.html   (380 words)

  
 The Mac Observer: Quid Pro Quo 1.0 Review
Quid Pro Quo is an excellent choice for a Web server, as it is packed with features and is extremely easy to use.
Quid Pro Quo (formerly known as WebCenter) is a powerful Web server solution from Social Engineering.
Quid Pro Quo runs on pretty much any Mac, as long as you have a full-time Internet connections (an ISDN or faster connection is recommended).
themacobserver.com /reviews/quidproquo1.shtml   (698 words)

  
 Sink a Pint, Spend a Quid and Walk an Aussie Mile.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The quid went out in January 1966, along with the pennies, shillings and the rest of the old currency.
Most Aussie kids and teens know what pennies and shillings looked like, because they have seen some that their parents or grandparents saved up when the dollars and cents came in.
So, the quids have gone, but they hang around in the language as older Aussies might still say they're down to their last quid before pay day.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/write_australian/59427/2   (529 words)

  
 [NPO] Question about Quid Pro Quo Law application   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I have been recently told by a co-worker that if the item a donor receives from a charity in return for a donation can not be obtained in a fair market (i.e.
This CD was conceived of and compiled by a volunteer and a very small number were produced.
Since this CD is not readily available to the public, it has been contended that quid pro quo laws would not apply.
www.rain.org /pipermail/nonprofit/2004-April/002874.html   (245 words)

  
 teentoday.co.uk message boards: People paying a hundred quid for pre-ripped jeans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This weird fashion started a couple of years ago and everyone still seems to be spending loads of money on pre-ripped and even pre-stained (nice) denim.
I really dont see the point in buying a hundred quid pair of Diesel jeans that make it look as if you've been sleeping rough for months.
They can decieve you with their beauty as well as tear you with their claws.
www.teentoday.co.uk /ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Number=171881   (528 words)

  
 Goldmine magazine review of Quid Pro Quo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Now, given a chance to step out on his own, he applies those lessons to Quid Pro Quo (Sphere Sound Records CD109), a varied collection of radio-ready songs with a few unexpected musical turns.
As a solo artist, Sulton's style leans heavily in the direction of Styx and Queen, an approach that emphasizes bold, brazen melodies and a riveting rock 'n' roll style that beckons almost instantly.
With a portion of the proceeds going to the cause of Kids Against Cancer, Quid Pro Quo is well worth the investment.
www.kasiminfo.co.uk /Print/Goldmine.html   (139 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Back to basics
Then, in 1995, Netscape's landmark IPO led to an explosion of Internet and telecom deals that promised Wall Street easy billions in investment banking fees.
Now stock analysts, who could entice prospective IPO clients with the tacit quid pro quo of a favorable rating, were suddenly rainmakers -- and millionaires.
In their dual and conflicted role as investment bankers and researchers, star analysts like Jack Grubman and Henry Blodget ignored financial statements and common business sense to issue effusive "Buy" ratings on disasters like Global Crossing and Excite@Home.
www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/08/08/back_to_basics   (558 words)

  
 The Mac Observer: First Look at Quid Pro Quo 2.0b1
Also available is Quid Pro Quo Plus ($295) and Quid Pro Quo Secure ($129), which offer a support for a variety of secure Web protocols.
Quid Pro Quo 1.0 featured impressive built-in server side includes capabilities; those have been further improved in version 2.0.
Quid Pro Quo 1.0 was impressive; version 2 is outstanding.
www.macobserver.com /previews/qpq2b1.shtml   (628 words)

  
 The Japan Times Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nonetheless, the prevailing belief in Japan is that troops are in Iraq because the U.S. wants them there.
That is because all too often Japanese politicians and strategists argue that deployment is part of Tokyo's "alliance obligations," a quid pro quo for U.S. support on matters closer to home, North Korea in particular.
To his credit, Koizumi has maintained that the SDF dispatch is in Japan's national interest and part of its international responsibilities.
www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20040406bg.htm   (990 words)

  
 TechWeb | News | Report: India Wants H1B Tripled, Dangles Quid Pro Quo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
India is pushing the U.S. to triple the number of foreign worker visas -- dubbed H1B -- from 65,000 annually to 195,000, according to Indian media reports.
In April, for instance, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates called for increases, saying at the time that "We are very concerned that the U.S. will lose its competitive position" without more foreign workers.
According to The Economic Times, India will offer a quid pro quo if the number of visas is bumped up.
www.techweb.com /wire/ebiz/164903052   (614 words)

  
 Baseball: So close and yet so far - The Washington Times: Sports - August 29, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Richmond legislators are not going to stand in the way of a team once it is committed.
They may ask for a quid pro quo, which is what all this jockeying could be about.
All this could have been avoided if baseball simply had issued a conditional award, but the primary condition determining the future home of the Montreal Expos remains Peter Angelos, though District officials say they believe otherwise.
washingtontimes.com /sports/20040829-124439-1839r.htm   (851 words)

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