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AbstractThe history of the slide-rule is retold in a systematic way, and its denomination is analysed in 41 languages. A comparison of these terms allows us to postulate for the object an extensive panlinguistic "definition scheme", which might provide an empirical approximation to an analysis of the concept / slide-rule /. Each language typically selects from this scheme a couple of notional elements, so that these terms look like elliptical definitions of the object, some denominations being favoured for a number of reasons which are not necessarily cognitive or linguistic.
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War is a form of competition and the drug wars are no exception to this definition. Drug wars are actually classic illustrations of competitors abusing the legal process to define their own drug trading as lawful while characterizing their competitor's behaviour as “crime”. Successive American federal administrations extended the drug wars through a combination of military assistance, financial pressure and secret agreements. These aggressions are the real abuses aimed at third world cultures. Since Americans purchase 60% of all illicit drugs and finance more than 90% of the police action against the trade, drug legalization drug crusade. On the other hand, even if drug legalization makes sense the U.S. federal government will not necessarily act sensibly. An alternative possibility is reform outside the U.S. capable of generating a competitive crises internationaly.