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Negotiable Order of Withdrawal Account

A checking account at a bank or thrift that earns interest. The account holder is allowed to write checks or drafts against the money in the account and may withdraw any amount of money from it on demand. See also: M1.

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It is by the effort for nowness that we are taking power.

Is newness still new?

Humans have the potential of developing a huge pastness, a most advanced, yet limited and often untrained, future perspective, as well as the ability to expand and contract their nowness into intensions and protensions.

Chronemics: time-binding and the construction of personal time

The naming of being, and therefore nowness, is endless, provisional, relative; but the difficulty, the impossibility some would say, in no way involutes and implodes such naming, whose trace remains fatally pertinent inasmuch as it affirms--joyously, smilingly, moreover, Guillevic will insist--experience's openness and vitality, its indefinableness and its glory.

Maintenant

The question of traffic's nowness, both topic and problem, finds one answer in the rise of mobility in recent cultural commentary--as an analytic term, a theoretical problematic, and a methodological framework.

Jamming--the traffic issue

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