environmental, and social performance. The Guidelines: present reporting principles and specific content to guide the preparation of organisation-level sustainability reports; assist organisations in presenting a balanced and reasonable picture of their economic, environmental, and social performance; promote comparability of sustainability reports, while taking into account the practical considerations related to disclosing information across a diverse range of organisations, many with extensive and geographically dispersed operations; support benchmarking and assessment of sustainability performance with respect to codes, performance standards, and voluntary initiatives; and serve as an instrument to facilitate stakeholder engagement. The Guidelines are not: a code or set of principles of conduct; a performance standard;or
primitive ("Slab!") language, and remind us again of the many devices such as "Hello" and "Oh, dear" that have conventional social uses and are perfectly meaningful without having anything to do with verification or with truth itself. Even when we turn to the more highly structured (1)(3) and (6), it seems that, although each is declarative in mood, none is in the business of 146 Pragmatics and speech acts stating a fact or disclosing a truth. They are in different lines of work; so they seem to count as "factually defective." In Austin's original article (1961), he called sentences like (1)(7) "perfor- matives," to distinguish them from "constatives" (constatives being just the usual sorts of descriptive, fact-stating, true-or-false sentences that philoso- phers like). In uttering a performative one is not, or at least not ostensibly, describing anything or stating a fact, but performing a social act. When I
probable enemy, this necromantic gift of the gods of which one could apparently never have enough, that "There was too much of it." 2. One Day of Magic: II INOctober the cabinet of Prince Konoye fell, and the Emperor summoned General Hideki Tojo to form a new government. One of the first acts of the new Foreign Minister, Shigenori Togo, was to call in the chief of the cable section. Togo, remembering a book that Herbert O. Yardley had written disclosing his 1920 solution of Japanese diplomatic codes, asked the cable chief, Kazuji Kameyama, whether their current diplomatic communications were secure. Kameyama reassured him. "This time," he said, "it's all right." With the assumption of total power by the militarists under Tojo, the last real hopes for peace died. Almost at once, events began to slide toward war. On November 4, Tokyo sent to her ambassadors at Washington the text of her proposal B, which Togo described as "absolutely final
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