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In 1773 the road commissioners for the Town of Harrison, N.Y., laid out a road, “along said Merrits land to a Black Oak Stadel marked with a Slipe and three hacks with an axe.”
) After other introductory pleasantries Shaw confessed, “I had an axe of my own to grind; and I thought that Professor Wilson's book might help me to grind it.”
Then I ask myself this question: Who used whom to grind whose axe anyway?
The piece points out that up to just a few years ago, at most companies office relationships were grounds for dismissal, with the junior member of the couple typically getting the axe, but that nowadays, such companies as IBM, AT&T, Corning and Xerox have moved to the view that such relationships cannot be banned but can be managed.
The name of this nation, first seen in the Shang dynasty oracle bones (2nd millennium B.C.), the earliest complete Chinese script known, is a pictograph of the yuéh `axe,' which may be symmetrical or asymmetric, stone or bronze.