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Remember the grief Dick Cheney received in late 2000, and then President Bush in early 2001, when they were accused of “talking down the economy”? We already know from history that the economy had already slipped into negative growth during the third quarter of 2000; so it’s fair to say in hindsight that Cheney and Bus... | 1.646973 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Checklist for Parents PRE-DEPARTURE Resources: Encourage your student to take responsibility for pre-departure logistics and paperwork. Confirm that your student has read the Regulations pages carefully, signed (electronically) and submitted all of the required application forms available through their electronic portf... | 1.655355 | 1,000 | 998 |
This year is in many ways "back to the future" for NATO. As during the Cold War, the Alliance’s greatest challenges in 2012 will come not from the risk of attack but from the extent and consequences of shifts in the nature of global power.
The story is a familiar one. For most of NATO’s existence, the Alliance has been... | 1.79196 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
How To Avoid a Board Turn Down The Vertical Country Club
Although Groucho didn't want to belong to any club that would have him as a member, in Manhattan, the opposite is true: there are co-ops out there that don't want you even though you want them. Getting approved by a co-op's Board of Directors is as New York as th... | 1.581136 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
by all of the Board members and will be used to determine whether the board will schedule an interview with you. Boards have the power to turn down a prospective purchaser without an interview if they don't like the board package. It's serious business. A bunch of strangers sitting around a dining room table, looking ... | 1.642977 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
but sometimes it's more than that. It’s social in nature, but it’s an interview nonetheless. Do the best you can to present yourself in the best light. Again, check with your broker about any inside information he or she might have about this particular board and act accordingly. All of the above being said, there is ... | 1.749542 | 959 | 957 |
6 Benefits and 9 Risks You Need to Know about Cloud Computing
We know that cloud computing is “the new normal” just like virtualization was in the past. And we also know that the adoption of cloud computing by your organization can come with a series of benefits.
~ Written By Carlos Mendible
We know that cloud computin... | 1.552472 | 981 | 980 |
512 F2d 1192 Tunnell v. United States
512 F.2d 1192
75-1 USTC P 9306
James M. TUNNELL, Jr., and Mildred S. Tunnell
v. The UNITED STATES of America, Appellant. Robert W. TUNNELL and Eolyne K. Tunnell v. The UNITED STATES, Appellant.
Nos. 74-1675, 74-1678.
United States Court of Appeals,
Third Circuit.
Argued Feb. 7, 197... | 1.152165 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
that the district court erred in calculating the depreciable basis of the lagoons, and in assigning useful lives of twenty years to the clearing, landscaping, and staking out of the land. We find merit in the Government's contentions, vacate the judgment, and remand.
The basic rule, according to Treasury regulations, ... | 1.256369 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
(1) so many of the physical components of the parks would wear out within twenty years that the usefulness of the parks would likewise terminate;7 and (2) the value of the parks inextricably was tied to the lagoons whose useful lives the Government concedes to be twenty years.
A review of the record leaves us unclear ... | 1.626382 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
1.2TB SGI Altix Shared Memory System Runs 'Heart Model of the Future'
Today, Accelerating Researchers' Time To Insight
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In the quest to discover how the mechanisms of disease work, researchers at the Universite de Montreal (UdM) have run the largest mathematical simul... | 1.548252 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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'I did it because I didn't want to waste my time here," she says. "Plus, the school pays for the books and everything else. I basically got my first year of college for free just by putting forth some extra effort."
Simpson, a small, rural, K-12 on La. Hwy. 8 between Leesville and Alexandria, could have been the poster... | 1.906943 | 958 | 956 |
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Find out why over 1,200 dealers have already made the switch to Auto/Mate and experience the DMS that does business differently. LEARN MORE
GM recently pulled its $12M advertising campaign from Facebook because it was not effective.
My question -- effective at what?
Let's give the multi-billion dollar company (GM, no... | 1.868539 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
Paris, France (PressExposure) March 30, 2013 -- iValueHealth.NET, the first multilingual Europe-based platform, unveils new services to improve the contribution of pharmacists to public's health and reduce health inequalities. They are now able to offer advice, information, and instructions to patients about specific m... | 1.621156 | 1,012 | 1,010 |
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IVF: the unspoken risks for mothers and babies by Peter Westmore News Weekly
, August 2, 2014
IVF procedures put babies and mothers at significantly higher risk than when babies are conceived naturally, according to evidence recently documented in
The Family in America, a quarterly journal published ... | 1.379729 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
A special task force of the Florida Bar pushing for more diversity in the state’s judiciary has finally released the results of its work. And it’s not good.
The 22-page report, which focuses heavily on the state’s influential judicial nominating commissions (JNCs), highlights the ongoing lack of diversity among Florida... | 1.636671 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
Be forwarned that people on DS seem to have very strong opinions about sleep training. Hopefully everyone can keep it civil, but this thread may turn into a CIO-bashing. Let's try to just help this mama politely
Yes, I think she is too young for the type of sleep training you are describing. Most sleep experts say no y... | 1.72701 | 990 | 988 |
Virginia Jin Virginia Jin USDA-ARS Research Soil Scientist
B.S. Biology/English, Duke University, 1996
M.F.R. Forest Resources, University of Georgia, 2000 Ph.D. Plant Biology, University of Georgia, 2004 Research Interests Soil microbial ecology Carbon and nutrient cycling in agroecosystems Management impacts on soil ... | 1.212052 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
If you haven’t figured it out already, we’ll fill you in: the purchasing process for IT software, equipment and services is daunting. For one, major software purchases should not be chosen lightly, as they set the precedent for your agency’s IT success in the coming years.
Just as a shopping trip for winter clothing wo... | 2.360092 | 954 | 953 |
Researchers at Tel Aviv University, Israel have developed a prototype for a nanosensor array on a chip that can rapidly and accurately detect explosives in air at ultralow concentrations irrespective of their chemical composition. A description of the sensing device was published June 24, 2014, in
Nature Communications... | 1.341541 | 979 | 977 |
Developing legal aid systems in Asia-Pacific region Nick Booth Programme Advisor – Governance, Conflict Prevention, Access to Justice and Human Rights UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub Legal aid in Asia-Pacific: Great diversity and rapid development A significant minority of countries (10) have constitutional provisions mandat... | 1.7469 | 1,009 | 1,007 |
Higher Prices Wipe Out Gains to U.S. Farm Income
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said this morning that net farm income in the U.S. would fall 3.3% in 2012, to $114 billion from 2011's record high net income of $116 billion. Net cash income is down 1.4% year-over-year, to $132.8 billion.
As the agency says:
D... | 1.608698 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
By Daniel Reio, Director of Marketing, CDW Canada
Many businesses are thinking of implementing Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policies. Whether your organization approves it or not, your employees are bringing their own devices to work. Consider Gartner’s prediction that by 2014 “90 per cent of organizations will support... | 1.680502 | 1,001 | 998 |
We live in a world where people often get judged based on results. We celebrate winners and criticize losers.
In the coming months, Mitt Romney will likely face great criticism, especially as the Republican Party engages in “soul-searching” at its “crossroads.” Journalists and commentators will argue that Romney was a ... | 1.590819 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
Editor’s Note: One of the most neglected but
important questions about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks is whether
they were, in effect, a sucker punch from a marginal group of extremists
who succeeded because a new American administration let its guard down.
If that is the case, then the massive
retaliation launched... | 1.522096 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Some scientists are advising a dietary approach to climate change. They say eating less meat can mitigate the effects of rising temperatures. However, the recommendation is being made at a time when meat consumption worldwide is on the rise.
Researchers at Britain’s University of Exeter say a rapidly rising population ... | 1.758961 | 1,010 | 1,008 |
It does not matter how seasoned a cook you are, there will always be room for improvement. There are always new methods, tips, and techniques that can improve a recipe, expand a chef's repertoire, and increase the pleasure of time spent in the kitchen. When you are first becoming a cook, there are many tips to learn to... | 1.35789 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
Early screening considered key in combating incidence rate
China's first national cancer center will be inaugurated within the year to enhance the country's capacity for prevention, early screening and treatment of the disease, said a senior health official.
Lei Zhenglong, deputy director of the disease prevention and ... | 1.203489 | 974 | 972 |
by Bryan Goebel
The SFMTA Board of Directors voted to continue the agency’s declaration of fiscal emergency today, but took a proposal to charge a premium for cable cars and express bus routes off the table, and promised to use some of the $36 million expected from a state windfall to help "defray or delay" scheduled t... | 1.820161 | 1,009 | 1,007 |
Each second of the day, cells in the brain are trading chemical signals. The process these cells use runs a bit like this: One cell emits a chemical and it lingers in the space between cells for a millisecond or two. The second cell responds to the chemical by emitting its own signal, allowing the first cell to rest an... | 1.737291 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
intense feelings of depression between cocaine doses. Attempting to stop using cocaine could cause a similar sensation of despair, due to the lack of drug the brain feels is now necessary.
Cocaine can also cause short-term mental health problems, including paranoia and hallucinations. According to a study of the issue... | 1.637209 | 982 | 981 |
When I decided to start my first business as a mom, over a decade ago, my purpose was to be able to make ends meet, while spending more time with my kids. That’s why I’m passionate to help moms who want to do the same, and now that I’ve been there, I can hopefully help them avoid some of the mistakes I made, as well as... | 1.690595 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
on USPTO.gov to see whether that brand name has been trademarked. Do a Use Google Translateto see what it means in different languages (you don’t want to end up with something that is offensive or has a negative connotation in another culture). Do a name search with the Secretary Of State, so you are able to use it fo... | 1.736292 | 1,000 | 998 |
Marijuana- the very term is always associated with debate or controversy in several levels. And naturally the controversy is about the medicinal use of cannabis or marijuana as the very product has already gathered sufficient infamy. But the question is now, is marijuana only meant for the attack of being one of the mo... | 2.055798 | 945 | 943 |
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Herbs Useful In Dissolving Kidney Stones And Improving Kidney Function Albert Franklin
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Kidneys are one of the most important part of the body and it performs the important function of purifying the blood and the removal of excess and harmful substances from the blood. It... | 1.664277 | 997 | 996 |
Hey, if I could embrace my grey hair in 2010, after dying it for 20+ years,
why not embrace a few extra pounds?
Each January, for the past five years, I’ve found myself weighing about 8 – 10 pounds over my “happy weight.” I would buy the latest edition of The South Beach Diet, re-enroll in the online Weight Watchers pl... | 1.750744 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
This week’s Practice Circle coincides with the weekend of the Winter Solstice, the darkest and coldest time of the year for those of us in the northern hemisphere (
mudita to our Aussie and Kiwi friends!) I don’t know about you, but I always have a tangible felt sense of entropy about now. The cold and snow limit our m... | 1.507726 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
About CMS Learning Extended Programs Community Admissions Give to CMS Cambridge Montessori Institute Primary Program (3-6yr)
The Primary program is for children from 3 to 6 years. In this mixed-age environment children spend three years in the same classroom getting to know each other and their teachers well. The conti... | 1.787506 | 946 | 944 |
Overview
Flowering container gardens are easy to maintain. They brighten apartment balconies and accent gardens and patios. You can make them using almost any container that is weatherproof and will drain water. How to choose the right flowers for your outdoor container gardens is a matter of taste and a little shoppin... | 1.24145 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
3 Interview Questions for Hiring Great Customer Service Reps
Unlike several other interviews, the interviews for customer service representatives are focused more around behavioural analysis. In this particular arena, it is important to note one point and that is the interviewer will be completely focused on testing th... | 1.742486 | 1,009 | 1,007 |
Doug has questioned whether it is possible to get rid of militarism, in a comment on the Sri Lanka piece below. This deserves a detailed reply, so I have brought it forward to today's blog.
He writes, "you won't get rid of the root causes of "militarism" because they are intrinsic parts of human nature, to a greater or... | 1.780799 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Welcome to Quotation Check – Your guide to quotes, prices and charges in the construction industry. For this quote example we are assuming you have timber cladding that needs replacing and you have chosen a UPVc product. This page was last updated on
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Cladding boards that are attached to exterior walls get battered by... | 1.579631 | 921 | 920 |
Building Type
This is a generously spaced, large metal workshop. Due to its huge size it could also be used as a hobby shed, home office, general storage space or even a home gym. It has a lot of potential and its 2 door access allows you entry into different parts of the building, making it easy to use it for two diff... | 1.562688 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
more than enough space to drive a motorbike in and out of the building. So in terms of what you can store in this side of the workshop, it does offer you incredible versatility. Then at the other end there’s a single door which provides slightly quicker and easier entry into the workshop.
The building comes with a win... | 1.717148 | 972 | 970 |
Moto Security Ideas
There's a lot you can do to keep your motorcycle safe from the would be thieves who would want to take it from you. Keep reading to get some ideas on making your bike more secure regardless of where you park it.
LOCATION: Condo Parking
Condos might be the easiest place for a bike to go missing. Litt... | 1.845688 | 992 | 990 |
freely available re-usable Biomolecules 2013, 3(1), 168-179; doi:10.3390/biom3010168 Abstract :The molecular dynamic (MD) modeling approach was applied to evaluate the effect of an external electric field on soybean hydrophobic protein and surface properties. Nominal electric field strengths of 0.002 V/nm and 0.004 V/n... | 1.58941 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
P was evaluated using the STRIDE algorithm. Figure 1 demonstrates that application of electric field strengths 0.002 V/nm and 0.004 V/nm had no major effect on the helical region of SHP, but minor changes can be observed on turns and coils, as compared to no electric field. Application of a 3V/nm electric field severel... | 1.141096 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
protein is represented as:
Where r
final(i) is the final coordinates of an atom i, and r initial(i) is the initial coordinate of the atom i, and N is the number of atoms.
The average value of RMSD for 1ns simulation is shown in Table 1. It can be assessed from Table 1 and Figure 6 that as the application of an electri... | 1.233886 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
5-Gly33, Asp37-Leu51 and Leu56-Ser66) and 1–3/10 helix (Ser12-Gly19) (Figure 10) (PDB sequence detail). The SHP molecule surface contains 70% apolar atoms and the four disulphide bonds found in SHP provide stability to the protein (Figure 10). SHP starting configuration (PDB accession code 1HYP) was used for our study.... | 1.231091 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
will be useful to explain the effect of novel food processing techniques such as microwave, radiofrequency, pulsed electric field and electrohydrodynamics on the biochemical composition of food products.
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) for... | 1.012876 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
By Brett Cihon
In early October, Maintenance Superintendent Mark Renshaw got a call he's fielded dozens of times before. Trees were down on State Route 20, east of Marblemount. The road was blocked in both directions and we need crews out there ASAP.
The power company must make sure there are no live wires before our c... | 1.69802 | 1,011 | 1,009 |
VIENNA - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Monday appeared to still be on track to maintain its current oil production ceiling, after officials from member countries said conditions in the market support the status quo.
OPEC's internal forecasts show demand for its crude oil continuing at around 30 ... | 1.249591 | 1,006 | 1,004 |
DISCLOSURE:Please note these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This is for informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease. I am not a doctor. I am simply sharing my experiences.
I have an obsession. Cloth diapers. I seriously love Morris... | 1.627401 | 982 | 980 |
Time Out
Get a life! I mean a life beyond the endless hours you devote to your growing business. Business owners, like the legendary Knights of the Round Table, are notorious for always seeking, but never finding, the entrepreneurial Holy Grail: balance. A common entrepreneurial myth is that the "all work, no play" phi... | 1.666429 | 956 | 954 |
Conference speakers will address ways to moderate Maine's cost of care
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The cost of health care and health insurance in Maine will be the focus of a statewide conference on Wednesday, October 1 sponsored by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the Maine Health Management ... | 1.156448 | 969 | 967 |
Description Modernity offers people choices about who they want to be and how they want to appear to others. The way in which Jews choose to frame their identity establishes the dynamic of their social relations with other Jews and non-Jews - a dynamic complicated by how non-Jews position the boundaries around what and... | 1.506698 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
Source: All images created by Dan Laub
[MUSIC PLAYING] Hi, Dan Laub here. And in this lesson, we're going to discuss identifying measures of center on a graph. But before we do so, let's discuss the key objective for this lesson. By the end of this lesson, we should be able to identify the mode on a graph. So let's get... | 1.023485 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
This time of the year in Chicago, when faced with slick, icy concrete drives and walks, chemical de-icers and salt treatments start to look very appealing. De-icing products such as rock salt and fertilizers, while effective at making your stairs, walks and drives less slippery can be comprised of ingredients that can ... | 1.703795 | 950 | 948 |
OPINION: is green growth just a fad? A review of the Green Growth Leaders report
The Republic of Korea has created a new Global Green Growth Institute, and a major UN Summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro in July 2012 will focus on two topics – one of which will be ‘green economy’. The OECD has an entire program of work ... | 1.651827 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Chromosome 20p11 gains are associated with liver-specific metastasis in patients with colorectal cancer Leonie J M Mekenkamp1,2, Josien C Haan3, Miriam Koopman4, M Elisa Vink-Börger1, Daniëlle Israeli3, Steven Teerenstra5, Bauke Ylstra3, Gerrit A Meijer3, Cornelis J A Punt2,6, Iris D Nagtegaal1 1Department of Pathology... | 0.859322 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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When we think about the concept of human rights—including all the possible ways of its realization, and considering the complementarities and also the unity of different dimensions of the concept—we confront several difficult questions. In particular, in an age when constitutions and constitution... | 1.902071 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
AVK are the largest supplier of Data Centre & Financial sector critical power solutions in the UK
UK Leaders in critical power solutions for Data Centres, Financial Institutions & Telecoms
For 25 years we've been providing reliable back-up power solutions for mission critical services & systems.Since our founding in 19... | 1.743854 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Telecommunications providers, to Hospitals, Airports and Public Transport - anywhere where constant power is required to maintain normal business operations without risk to data, machinery, financial loss or even lives, AVK generator solutions keep the lights on for business.
UK Leaders in UPS system design, supply, i... | 1.80708 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Scotiabank Peru, the country's third largest bank, is expecting loans in the Peruvian banking system to grow 16-18% in 2013, down from around 20% this year, as GDP growth should cool to around 5-6% from above 6% in 2012.
Scotiabank Peru has been growing lending at above 20% this year, ending October with US$7.94bn in l... | 1.436633 | 999 | 997 |
I suppose there is little enough left to say beyond the conclusion that must seem both obvious and (I hope?) inevitable. If you see holding out as akin to de facto parentage–two paths to claiming parentage by actually performing the job–then how can you justify two different standards for attaining the status? It’s one... | 2.056694 | 1,007 | 1,004 |
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Mrs. Ellman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make available to the House the report compiled by Tom Constantine, the Oversight Commissioner, which outlines how he plans to fulfil his terms of reference. [144927]
Mr. Ingram:
I am grateful to Mr. Constantine ... | 1.252962 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. This will be a powerful tool in ensuring participation in clinical audit.
Ms Stuart
[holding answer 8 January 2001]: Government guidelines issued last year make clear that if the place of origin of a food is not the same as the place of origin of its ingredients, additional information may need to be provided on the ... | 1.432495 | 982 | 980 |
As you know, we’ve begun a new project: the Bonner & Partners Family Office. It’s our own family office that we’ve opened up to a few non- family members. But just as soon as the non-family members came in the door they started asking questions. Specifically, they wondered why…after all the preaching we’ve done about b... | 1.92199 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Mel
Your situation is totally unnecessary! I had sciatica 20 yrs. ago, with the degenerative disc spewing out some of its (very thick) fluid onto a nearby nerve and congealing there, causing cramps all up and down my left leg; I could hardly move at times! (The above was confirmed by Fastscan (super-fast catscan), as p... | 2.237067 | 959 | 958 |
Diet riot
Friday, September 27, 2013
Today I saw another diet based on eggs that will make you loose 5-7 kg in two weeks.
From the start let's set something straight, I'm not against fast result diets. There are plenty of women who need to fit into some dress for the upcoming party. And there are a lot of ways to reach... | 2.160517 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
It seemed like it wasn’t that long ago when Vuuch, something hardly anyone understood, was launched. More than a year later, Vuuch is up to version 4.5 and has new capabilities to offer. Some good. Some questionable. But at this point, one thing is clear: it seems like Vuuch is here to stay. And overall, I think that’s... | 1.813455 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The idea behind APR – annualized percentage rates – is to put different interest rates into comparable terms. Some loans are for 2 months, say, and some for 2 years, so to compare them, it can be helpful to ask: “what would the rate be if the loan was for a year?”
Comparing apples to apples makes sense. Or at least tha... | 1.63558 | 969 | 967 |
Once you're a parent, you never get the same quality of sleep again. Well, maybe when the kids move out. Whether you are up feeding an infant or keeping your ears open for signs of a restless tot, you've kissed your hours of deep shut-eye goodbye. But, there are a few ways mamas with brand-new babes can help themselves... | 1.451571 | 1,005 | 1,003 |
Here’s what the White House has offered as talking points to defend collecting (DiFi has confirmed) all the call data from all Americans since 2006. Interspersed is my commentary.
The article discusses what purports to be an order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court under a provision of the Foreign In... | 1.687438 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
has provided,
(A) a statement of facts showing that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the tangible things sought are relevant to an authorized investigation (other than a threat assessment) conducted in accordance with subsection (a)(2) to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a United Stat... | 1.657342 | 1,009 | 1,008 |
In the gymnasium of conspiracy, Jared Lee Loughner's belief that "The government is implying mind control and brain wash on the people by controlling grammar" seems unusually tortured, not least because it inflicts on us his own vigorous desire to be free of the shackles of correct speech. Recently, a connection has be... | 1.881692 | 987 | 985 |
As we all learned—or should have learned—in school, the Constitution of the United States created a new, national government of limited, divided powers. Of course, the Constitution was and is not perfect. Still, it is worth remembering and celebrating the Founders' insight and creativity. Theirs was a bold, innovative ... | 1.341353 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
an actual stake in the dispute—in other words, with "standing."
And so, when the foundation and its members sued the administration in federal court, they argued that they had "standing" because they pay federal taxes and oppose the use of tax dollars to advance, promote, and endorse religion. In most cases, this is n... | 1.440145 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Just having a satisfied customer and giving them service that is simply good enough will not get anyone talking. You've got to go above and beyond the call of duty if you want your customers to talk about you.
Word of mouth is instrumental in driving your company's success. Verbal buzz about your business or product pa... | 1.735862 | 916 | 915 |
The government, meaning taxpayers, reimburse ambulance services across the country. In the case of the city of Nogales, Arizona, right on the border with Mexico, ambulances are busy running to-and-fro picking up illegals and treating them – even those who are sick and
come only for medical care, not to stay, but the go... | 1.980331 | 973 | 971 |
Danube Day 2013: WWF gets active for the sturgeons and more Get active for the sturgeons’ is the slogan of this year’s Danube Day, celebrated by the 14 Danube basin countries on Saturday, 29 June.
Under a new EU LIFE project, which will go on until September 2015, WWF in Romania and Bulgaria are working to tackle overf... | 1.638462 | 1,000 | 999 |
kEmployment Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century
Cliometric Sessions at 1990 ASSA Meetings--December 28, 10:15 AM
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Getting Started in the Auto Industry:
Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 1918-1947
Warren Whatley
University of Michigan and Gavin Wright Stanford University
1. Introduction
The Ford Motor Com... | 1.609999 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
belongings as collateral in exchange for fare north and a percentage of their first year's wages. After this initiation, the migration developed a momentum sustained by letters and assistance from those already established in the north (U.S. Department of Labor 1917). The heavy volume of black migration continued duri... | 1.809302 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, 28).
It is not simple to characterize Ford's philosophy or economic strategy with respect to employment, wages, or racial equity. From the time of the five-dollar day in 1914, Ford has been seen as the epitome of the high-wage American employer (Meyer 1981). The sociological department established at the same time se... | 1.716876 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
a tendency to high departure rates); and whether these patterns show any significant changes over time. Concerns about unobservable heterogeneity in labor quality, which commonly plague studies of this type, are greatly minimized here by the simple consideration that our data come from the very records the company its... | 1.785575 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Ford did not constitute a grossly inferior, uneducated, underpaid segment of the work force.
One may be tempted to wave away this entry-level evidence, on the grounds that terms of hiring essentially reflected conditions in the open market for unskilled labor, which was more-or-less a spot market in character. In such... | 1.800164 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
workers who were mature, married, stable, educated to about the same extent as white applicants and with an expected job tenure that was no lower than that of whites. Either Ford was simply prejudiced. or else the company visualized different types of work assignments for blacks, for which these individual attributes ... | 1.578805 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Packard official to an interviewer: "White and colored get along all right in the foundry because the average white worker doesn't want a foundry job anyway. White foundry workers are foreigners" (quoted in Bailer 1943, 421). Supposedly the Rouge plant had no racial tension on issues of this sort, but even at Rouge a ... | 1.660652 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
8 Laundry, etc. 2 1.92 51 10.78 112 19.18 SOURCE: Public Use Census Tapes for 1910, 1940, 1950 Table 2. Large Employers of Black Auto Labor, 1939-40 Total Hourly Black Percent Black Workers Workers Ford Motor CO.a 90,000 11,000 12.22 General Motorsb 100,000 2,500 2.50 Chrysler Corp.a 50,000 2,500 4.00 Briggs Mfg. Corp.... | 1.499459 | 898 | 896 |
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Three women lie slumped on a subway platform at Beijing's Tiananmen East station after ingesting pesticides in protest over a phone scam, Nov. 24, 2016.Photo courtesy of a bystander.
Three victims of a phone scam from the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu were rushed to hospital after swallowing pesticides... | 1.447203 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Hayabusa was a Japanese mission to return material from an asteroid, Itokawa. Its long story was a series of major problems, mainly overcome, but until the sample collector was opened, it wasn’t known whether Hayabusa returned any sample at all. Its sample collection mechanism had failed to fire and all the team could ... | 1.817293 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ERIC Number:ED455720 Record Type:RIE Publication Date:2001-May Pages:35 Abstractor:N/A Reference Count:N/A ISBN:N/A ISSN:N/A
Overcoming the High School Senior Slump: New Education Policies. Perspectives in Public Policy: Connecting Higher Education and the Public Schools.
Kirst, Michael W.
The slump experienced by many... | 1.23671 | 1,007 | 1,005 |
STOCKHOLM – After spending weeks in the international transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been granted one-year asylum in Russia. But the fugitive whistleblower’s story will probably not end there. If Russia refuses to extend Snowden's asylum a year fr... | 1.418769 | 914 | 912 |
Watercolor illusion
Baingio Pinna (2008), Scholarpedia, 3(1):5352. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.5352 revision #127995 [link to/cite this article]
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watercolor illusion (see Figs. 1-3) is a long-range assimilative spread of color emanating from a thin colored contour juxtaposed to a darker chromatic contour and imparting ... | 1.322398 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
figure-ground effect can be obtained by using equiluminant adjacent contours that, even if they spread their colors, they show a flat and reversible figure-ground organization. This condition is related to Figure 12 , where in the gray range (central region), in which neither the stars nor the crosses prevail as a fig... | 1.808334 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. Under these conditions, the inner region appears white: the pink discolors (Figure 22a). This is called “discoloration Illusion” (Pinna, 2006; Pinna & Reeves, 2006).
The switch from the watercolor illusion to the discoloration illusion depends on the bunch of contours, on their number and on the role of each contour ... | 1.763249 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
with a white center (the whole color of the object is blue and the white appears as a bright light reflected from the object), white with a blue periphery (the whole color is white and the blue is some kind of undefined coloration) or two-tone (without any whole color)? If the object is blue, what is the exact blue am... | 1.696361 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
S.E. (1999). Vision Science: photons to phenomenology. The MIT press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England. Pinna, B. (1987). Un effetto di colorazione. In V. Majer, M. Maeran, and M. Santinello, Il laboratorio e la città. XXI Congresso degli Psicologi Italiani, 158. Pinna, B., (2005). The role of Gestalt princip... | 1.038684 | 1,001 | 999 |
The Coalition government's "ideological dislike of public servants" could be behind the cuts to pensions set to hit tens of thousands of retirees within days, according to a leading advocacy group.
Retired police officers, firefighters and nurses, as well as former state and federal public servants, will see their Cent... | 1.706939 | 975 | 973 |
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