Eight years' service as President of the Academy during a period which was almost exactly coterminous with the period of active preparedness for World War II, the war years, and the initial interval of transition to the postwar era could hardly help giving me as the chief executive officer a vivid insight into Academy operations in a time when its service functions and obligations were paramoun...

In this paper, we show that configurational notions follow from inherent properties of informational concepts. First, we analyze the hidden complexity of the central family of configurational relations (command) from which all the others (government, proper government, etc.) are derived. We then examine the different types of grammatical information, their sources and their propagation mode. Fi...

In February 2009, the US Congress passed a US$787 billion stimulus package designed to put the country on the road to economic recovery. Thereafter, managing ‘the stimulus story’ became, as Time magazine reported, ‘a full-time White House preoccupation’ (Scherer, 2009: 31). Obama and his team understood that without a concerted effort to communicate the plan, it would almost certainly fail in t...