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Within the history of concepts, the conceptualization of time is central. Historical
actors rely on their experiences for orientation in the present, and they
produce expectations about the future. To imagine their horizons of expectation
they need concepts about the future. When the future becomes difficult
to conceive of for a variety of reasons, they take refuge in concepts describing
unruly and uncertain times such as crisis or chaos. Times when the future
is completely out of reach because the present seems unbearable might be
termed catastrophic. Also, historians in general make use of temporal concepts
to narrate their histories. They are like time bandits that manipulate
time. Following last year's conference organized by the History of Concepts
Group on key concepts in times of crisis, this article takes issue with the discussion
of concepts describing bad times within conceptual history.

Cablegrams addressed to THE TIMES building concerning the brake-off of relations between the Church and the State in Mexico, the suspension of religious services, a discussion about the convenience of repealing the ban on shipping arms to Mexico. There are also statements made by the Catholic hierarchy, the Archbishop from Chile, Monsignor Errazuriz, Archbishop Curley, and Archbishop Ruiz y Flores against Gen. Plutarco Elías Calles' regulations issued against them and the intervention of the United States. / Cablegramas dirigidos al edificio del TIMES relativos al rompimiento de las relaciones Iglesia-Estado en México,la suspensión de los servicios religiosos, discusión sobre la conveniencia de derogar la prohibición contra el envío de armas a México, pronunciamientos de jerarcas católicos, el arzobispo de Chile, Monseñor Errazuriz, el arzobispo Curley, y el arzobispo Ruiz y Flores, en contra del Gral. PEC, las medidas decretadas en su contra y la intervención de Estados Unidos.

Space-time integration has long been the topic of study and speculation in geography. However, in recent years an entirely new form of space-time integration has become possible in GIS and GIScience: real-time space-time integration and interaction. While real-time spatiotemporal data is now being generated almost ubiquitously, and its applications in research and commerce are widespread and rapidly accelerating, the ability to continuously create and interact with fused space-time data in geography and GIScience is a recent phenomenon, made possible by the invention and development of real-time interactive (RTI) GPS/GIS technology and functionality in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This innovation has since functioned as a core change agent in geography, cartography, GIScience and many related fields, profoundly realigning traditional relationships and structures, expanding research horizons, and transforming the ways geographic data is now collected, mapped, modeled, and used, both in geography and in science and society more broadly. Real-time space-time interactive functionality remains today the underlying process generating the current explosion of fused spatiotemporal data, new geographic research initiatives, and myriad geospatial applications in governments, businesses, and society. This essay addresses briefly the development of these real-time space-time functions and capabilities; their impact on geography, cartography, and GIScience; and some implications for how discovery and change can occur in geography and GIScience, and how we might foster continued innovation in these fields.

Part‐time workers (a quarter of all employees in Britain) are one
section of the "atypical" workforce singled out for
attention by the EC Commission. Examines directives on atypical workers
issued as part of the Social Charter′s Social Action Programme. Assesses
the likelihood of directives′ provisions being adopted. Discusses the
decisions of the European Court of Justice, which may have a profound
impact on part‐time work, whether or not the directives are adopted, and
outlines developments in employer and union policy on part‐time workers.

AbstractSufficient conditions are developed for the ergodicity of a single server, first‐come‐first‐serve queue with waiting time dependent service times.

To what extent does Malta's social policy support gender equality, in the use of time? How much do state policies assume that men and women both need time to care, as well as for paid work? Does Malta's full-time paid work structure allow time for the equal sharing of unpaid care responsibilities between women and men, that in turn enhances gender equity in the workplace and domestic sphere? Themes that emerge in the study rest largely on women's voices. The study finds that women need to shift their full-time economic activity to shorter and flexible working hours when they become mothers, with negative consequences of loss in income and career regression. Labour market exit and financial dependence on men is also a frequent occurrence. The findings of the study suggest that strong pressure to assume traditional roles is embedded not only in Maltese culture and social norms, but also in the state's own social policy.

This book examines how theory and theorists have achieved a global audience as never before in the post-Global Financial Crisis era. This crisis and the rise of neo-right populism has brought about unprecedented interest in theory, which has become central to the political, economic, cultural and social reconstruction of the world.