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>pick library
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143 ITEMS RETRIEVED SINCE 1FEB92
>pick finance
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8 ITEMS RETRIEVED SINCE 1FEB92
>context 1
CONTEXT 1
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GDN 23 Jan 93 Latest Positions: Sex by Vatsyayana (1770)
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Kama is love, Sutra is art. The infamous treatise on the art of love was part of
a trio of works; the others were the Artha Shastra, one of the world's earliest man-
uals of statecraft, written by Kautilya, chief minister of Chandragupta Maurya,
and the Dharma Shastra. . . . Then as now, there was no romance without
FINANCE.
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Later, he became a professor at the Hindu UNIVERSITY of Benares and a direc-
tor of the college of music. In 1954, he moved to Madras to become the director
of the Adyar LIBRARY.
None of the query terms received in the retrieved passage are used in
senses far removed from their ordinary discourse denotations and conno-
tations. Other retrieved results suggested a university as a site for transi-
tion from adolescence to adulthood as well as a place of learning—a more
formal sense consistent with discussions of aboutness in information
retrieval research. Similarly but not precisely parallel, a search for public
discussion of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)—the evaluation of
publicly funded research in the United Kingdom—in 1997 supplemented
the phrase
research assessment exercise
with the acronym
RAE
combined
with
research
to retrieve documents that did not mention the full phrase
(Warner 1997, 264-265).
(Research Assessment Exercise) OR (RAE AND research)
Did Englishmen eat each other? In the 150 anniversary year of Sir John Franklin's
death, Tom Pow considers why his failed endeavour overshadowed the greater
achievement of the Orcadian explorer John RAE . . . . Anyone who has visited
the Scott Polar RESEARCH Institute and seen the final copperplate letters, writ-
ten with all hope gone, with breath averted so paper would not freeze. (Pow
1997)
