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  • forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens ... Climbing a high mountain is a true test of human character and spirit ...
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  • in his conception was the ability to act purposefully and effectively ... Here, Wechsler scored the Army Alpha Test, one of two tests designed ...
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  • Law" formulation, you should "…act only according to that maxim ... but prescribe how rational agents would act insofar as they are rational ...
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  • explicit legal precedent (the "Miller test") which all but guarantees ... The "Miller test" is the United States Supreme Court's ...
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  • The Labor-Management Relations Act, commonly known as the Taft-Hartley ... The act forbade jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. Employers ...
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  • punishment, if students misbehave, fail a test or do not complete their homework. ... * English language exams. Passing the College English Test (CET) band ...
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  • and the 1601 passage of the Poor Law Act, also know as the Elizabethan ... successful efforts to steer the Workhouse Test Act through Parliament in 1723 ...
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  • force that would be exerted on a positive test charge of +1 coulomb placed ... the force exerted on successively smaller test charges placed in the vicinity ...
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  • Court invalidated most of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a law passed by the ... In 1890, the State of Louisiana passed Act 111 that required separate ...
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  • successfully conducted its first nuclear test. An underground nuclear explosion ... On May 25, 2009, North Korea conducted a second nuclear test, resulting ...
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  • are being observed, they are more prone to act at a higher level of efficiency ... studies, and usually to the relay assembly test room experiments and the bank ...
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  • development of the systolic blood-pressure test: "According to Marston’s ... was modeled upon the systolic blood-pressure test. Marston was the ...
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  • such as the Macclesfield Grammar School Act 1774 and the Bolton Grammar ... of grammar schools. The Grammar Schools Act 1840 made it lawful to apply ...
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  • under the power vested by the Charter and Act of Serampore College. A private ... members without using a denominational test. The charter has also been ...
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  • movement in schools by providing ways to test students and meet their needs ... passed the National Defense Education Act, which spurred a huge growth ...
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  • the United Kingdom, and the Social Security Act in 1935 in the United States ... taxes. The 1723 passing of the Workhouse Test Act made it possible for parishes ...
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  • bases, or salts. Furthermore, some gases may act as electrolytes under conditions ... linked to sodium levels. One important test conducted on urine is the ...
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  • are two versions of this theory: act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism ... attend to those that "stand better the test of reflection" and ignore ...
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  • and is commonly used for calibrating test weights. To reduce the need ... to use hydraulic force to sense weight. The test force is applied to a piston ...
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  • In addition, carbon dioxide and water vapor act as "greenhouse gases ... To synthesize and test the theoretical understanding of atmospheric ...
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  • in terms of a high score on an IQ test. IQ testers have used the ... form L-M, currently outdated, was the only test that had a sufficient ceiling ...
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  • trails. There are exemptions laid out in the Act, such as dogs are allowed ... In Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, Test cricket matches ...
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  • The Charitable Uses Act of 1601 listed a number of purposes to be ... The commissioners appointed by the 1601 Act were the first to oversee ...
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  • the failure of this intended treasonous act of regicide, that is, the ... A test using decayed gunpowder carried out in for an ITV program in ...
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  • A personality test aims to assess aspects of a person's character ... different situations. The first personality test was the Woodworth Personal ...
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  • in the production of Wealth II in 388 (test. 1. 54–6) and to have been ... ::And so we act, beckoning, alluring foolish men ::Through their dishonest ...
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  • the performance of some action ("speech act"). For example, in the ... Austin called such a performance a phonetic act, and called the act a phone ...
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  • domestic agenda, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 authorized programs ... Although Head Start, along with the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 ...
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  • just as as certain protein enzymes act as biological catalysts in ... A recent test-tube study of prion folding suggests that an RNA may ...
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  • through Title XIX of the Social Security Act. By structure, each individual ... through Title XIX of the Social Security Act to help individuals who have ...
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  • when buying a house.s. 52, Law of Property Act 1900. However, the vast majority ... for sale of land under s. 52, Law of Property Act 1925. ...
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  • that object (emotional component), and act toward that object in certain ... his idea and suggested that Japan could test it in practice. Japan indeed ...
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  • scientific method and using mathematics to test the models, was the correct ... view that neither economics nor politics can act alone to solve the world problems ...
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  • #039;s door. They asked him to do a screen test for Warner Brothers Studios ... who convinced Brando to submit to a screen test for a role in his film. He ...
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  • are generally evaluated using a balancing test, under which legality depends ... of life." The Sherman Antitrust Act passed Congress almost unanimously ...
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  • 142--Education of All Handicapped Children Act, which dictated that all states ... Many schools test students for mental, emotional, or developmental ...
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  • name of the observer plus a record of the act of observation. He gave as ... propose statements or claims and then test them. There does need to be ...
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  • after the publication of the Helsinki Final Act in Soviet newspapers. On May ... on the provision in the Helsinki Final Act, Principle VII, which establishes ...
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  • L-arginino-succinate, and L-arginine act as intermediates. ... stable isotope) is used in the Urea breath test, which helps detect the presence ...
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  • lurking and manipulative presence, or might act against the hero's family ... donor; perhaps withstanding the rigors of a test and/or failing in some manner ...
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  • tests such as the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) or ACT, a satisfactory high ... Also in question is whether the test, which is used by most schools ...
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  • 1925 that tested a Tennessee law, the Butler Act, which forbade the teaching ... 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925)), tested the Butler Act, which had been passed a few ...
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  • dosages of saccharin that were given to test subject rats; dosages were ... a direct result of the Pure Food and Drug Act. The act, passed in 1906, ...
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  • satan) is a servant of God whose job is to test humankind. However, in the ... piety, ha-satan asks for permission to test the faith of Job. God grants ...
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  • In this mainly victorious test, Hayes removed not only a subordinate ... In 1878, Hayes was formally asked by Argentina to act as arbitrator ...
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  • every aspect of life should be offered as an act of worship. ... wide. Once, some mischievous boys wanted to test Rayaru. On his pilgrimage ...
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  • * It is used in the manufacture of mono- and di-glycerides, which ... advised all U.S. makers of medicines to test all batches of glycerine for ...
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  • in his place, though he cannot bowl, bat, or act as a captain or wicket-keeper ... England team took part in the first-ever Test match at the Melbourne Cricket ...
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  • The Epstein-Barr virus test involves a blood test or a group of tests ... LMP-2A/LMP-2B are transmembrane proteins that act to block tyrosine ...
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  • make a picture of reality on which men can act." A journalist’s version ... into a play in the middle of the third act and leaving before the last ...
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  • communications tower, with the capability to act as both a transmitter and repeater. ... * To test height-intensive applications: elevator test tower ...
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  • than did William and Mary's later Act of Toleration (1689). Although ... the introduction by Parliament of a new Test Act in 1673. Under this Act ...
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  • make the decisions of Nicæa the ultimate test of orthodoxy. ... In 353, Liberius, in his first known act as pope, sent legates to ...
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  • a carefully detailed excavation in order to test popular belief about history ... attempting to re-enact past processes to test theories about ancient manufacturing ...
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  • , certify each category of simulators and test individual simulators within ... problems which the crew need to be familiar with and act upon. ...
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  • The act of necromancy was widespread in the ancient world and the ... provide benefit. He states that demons only act with divine permission, and ...
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  • of Applied Psychology in 1930, which would act as the primary forum for psychologists ... have been shown to have both high validity (test actually measures what it ...
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  • brother-in-law dutifully managed to set up a screen test at MGM, even though Ava had no acting experience whatsoever. The screen test was strictly silent ...
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  • OK Oklahoma spaceport - Suborbital test flights could begin in 2007 ... conduct a number of experiments, in part to test his company's products ...
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  • tactics of spying and he was the first to test the new Gatling gun in battle ... legislation, and wrote the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act. Along with Republican Senator ...
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  • I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people ... was a clause forbidding any "religious test" for government employees ...
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  • some people in such a situation act with great fervor to convert ... increase their conviction of their truth and act with great fervor to convince ...
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  • A famous test case of affirmative action policies was the Regents ... In the early twenty-first century, the state of Michigan became a ...
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  • when the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an unexpectedly high ... Atmospheric nuclear testing (prior to the Partial Test Ban Treaty ...
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  • process, a sacred art form, and a religious act. Proponents of pornography ... devotees in their appreciation of sex as a sacred act of love. ...
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  • total number of institutes to 23. All IITs act as autonomous universities ... "Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963." Located in Hauz ...
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  • that concepts exist in the mind before the act of abstraction. "It is ... of a concept's meaning and only one test of its truth. That criterion ...
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  • In response to the Black Codes, Congress enacted the Civil Rights ... The Southern states were opposed to the Civil Rights Act, but in 1865 ...
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  • the court will order a paternity test to establish paternity before ... *Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act ...
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  • # Test the most likely solution. Dewey's influence declined in ... and judgment, and are empowered to act. ===Calhoun School=== ...
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  • The Dawes Act broke up the Cheyenne-Arapaho land base. All land not ... After the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act passed in 1936, the Cheyenne ...
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  • when it was formed on August 12, 1946, by an act of Congress, ... and docking module from the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, all connected as ...
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  • of the nozzle, because the pressures also act on the nozzle. In addition ... The highest specific impulse chemistry ever test-fired in a rocket ...
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  • syphilitic were simply transferred to the test group -- a strikingly inept ... physicians announced that they had come to test for 'bad blood,' ...
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  • The middle school was established to act as a transition, moving the ... helps plan students' schedules and act as advocates for a wide array ...
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  • 'due process of law,' no act of legislation can deprive ... as not providing "an indispensable test" of due process. ...
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  • violence and drug-wars, has stood the test of time. His goal of establishing ... remain in Bogotá, the capital, and act as the representative of the ...
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  • the "Good" and the courage to act accordingly. The Good would ... Dimensional Wisdom Scale," a test that individuals can take ...
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  • a decision, might require an accused to test guilt or innocence by carrying ... formal, and accessible document, known as an Act of Parliament, common laws ...
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  • During the debate on the Second Reform Act, he campaigned for the franchise ... as that which by a purely spiritual act takes Christ, as the manifestation ...
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  • Press, 1973, ISBN 978-0521202978). Simple act utilitarianism says that Jim ... would be justified, according to simple act utilitarianism, because of ...
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  • activity, in individuals with high IQ test scores when they performed ... performance on "the Concept Mastery Test Form A," a test of verbal ...
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  • or if it was a heat of the moment act. Others, like Finland, Germany ... have abandoned a fixed time period and test causation on the facts of the case. ...
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  • PBS series African American Lives 2. A DNA test showed that she was descended ... * The Least of These (two-act drama), produced in Los Angeles, 1966. ...
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  • rights to the movie. It was the first test of his theory that American ... Paramount Pictures Corporation in 1914 to act as a distributor for multiple ...
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  • #039;s experiments showed that people may act in inhumane ways when ordered ... old Irish-American accountant trained to act for the role. When they arrived ...
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  • those being prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917 or Sedition Act of ... and the passage of the 2001 USA Patriot Act, the ACLU experienced a 20 ...
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  • the theory, a friendly person is likely to act in a friendly fashion in any ... account and is considered to be a very good test. In 1963, W.T. Norman replicated ...
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  • of the mouth, and paired appendages that act like jaws, with three pairs ... Sometimes Daphnia may be used in certain environments to test the ...
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  • provisions for a grand jury in the Crimes Act 1958 under section 354 Indictments ... defendant guilty. It is a very low-level test, although stricter than the ...
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  • empathy that exists in human beings. When we act to elicit the best in others ... of life. A central precept was "Always act so as to elicit the best in ...
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  • Following the Soviet Union's first test detonation of an atomic ... Teller himself refrained from attending the test--he claimed not to feel welcome ...
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  • The United States Tariff Act of 1930 exempted from import duty items ... "Antiquing" is the act of shopping, identifying, negotiating ...
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  • off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, the first news test of the new telegraph. ... they acquired through Freedom of Information Act requests. ...
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  • or most commonly diatomaceous earth, which act as stabilizers. Plastics and ... to friction or heat. Some of the test methods used to determine ...
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  • and the commission was established by an act of parliament in August of ... a/nuke/first-pix.htm First Nuclear Test at Pokhran in 1974.] ...
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  • defendant may defend himself pro se, and may act as his own attorney, if desired. ... proof of a crime requires proof of some act. Scholars label this the requirement ...
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  • foreign aid, arms control, and a nuclear test ban. He served as chairman ... in the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Humphrey's consistently ...
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  • Glenn was one of the Mercury Seven military test pilots selected in ... viewed air-to-air combat as the ultimate test not only of their machines ...
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  • on, but Elisha, passing his master's test, refused to leave Elijah& ... to stay behind. This can be seen as a final test to prove Elisha understood ...
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