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Pilamec Ltd, Harbour Rd, Lydney, Glos, GL15 4EJ, have introduced a new and streamlined version of their Megamill. Not only is the processing efficiency of the mill heightened but accessibility to all parts of this high energy vibrational ball mill has been improved, it is claimed. However, the price has been pegged at the 1979 level.

Now available from George Meller Ltd., Orion Park, Northfield Avenue, London W13 9SJ, the L & W surface wettability tester is designed to determine the wettability of paint films, paper, board, plastic, textiles, metal surfaces, and other materials, by means of the contact angle method.

Cray Valley Products Ltd., St. Mary Cray, Orpington, Kent, BR5 3PP, have recently introduced a range of resins for use in liquid inks. This range consists of Unithane 672S, Synaqua 845S, Synaqua 846S and Versamid 790.

During recent years there has been a considerable development in the type of mixer which is used in the preparation of printing ink formulations.

The expansion of facilities at Allied Chemical Corporation's Baton Rouge U.S.A. plant has been completed. Specialty Chemicals Division has doubled the production output of its board line of high density oxidized polyethylenes with new facilities on‐stream as of September 1, 1978.

About fourteen years ago a unique pipe coater was built in Alabama to apply fusion coating to large diameter pipe—24 in. and larger. This was after about 10 years' experience in coating small diameter pipe mainly in gas distribution systems.

Queen's Award for Pipeline Induction Heat. Pipeline Induction Heat Ltd of High Wycombe has been honoured with the 1985 Queen's Award for Export Achievement. The award has been granted to P.I.H. in recognition of substantial achievement in exporting high technology pipeline equipment to markets throughout Europe, the Middle East, Far East and Australia.

A £350,000 line for manufacturing the U.K.'s first nestable metal containers for litho printing inks has been installed at Metal Box's General Packaging factory in Mansfield.

Donald Trump entered the presidency in 2017 with an electoral mandate to reduce US military involvement around the world and to abandon the trade and investment treaties that empowered global corporations. Yet he mostly continued the foreign policies adopted by previous administrations. In recent decades, those policies have increasingly served particularistic elite interests at the expense of the US ruling class as a whole, and they have also been unsuccessful in stemming the decline of US imperial power. This chapter explores the factors that explain this continuity of policy. In analyzing the reasons for policy stasis, it offers an analytical basis to evaluate what might change under President Biden. It also assesses what strategies might be most effective for those who hope to resist US militarism and to undermine the US capacity to enforce a hegemony based on rapacious capitalism.

For several decades, scholars have called for “open” or “living systems” approaches to the study of complex organizations. These approaches were especially characterized by the presence of various nonlinear dynamics. Unfortunately, the formal mathematics required to capture these dynamics did not become widely available until the recent mass computing revolution. Meanwhile, these realms of mathematics, known variously as “catastrophes,” “chaos,” and more recently as “complexity,” have caught hold in the physical, biological, and cognitive sciences. This article contends that it is now time for these recent advances in the sciences of nonlinearity to emerge full scale in the social realm as well. However, thus far, this movement is much more metaphorical than it is methodological. Thus, a review of some policy and management applications is undertaken. Of particular interest are those where the uses of phase plane analysis and genetic algorithms portend significant practical import.