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For example, it has been estimated that this cost shifting amounted to $ 455 per individual or $ 1, 186 per family in California each year.
Overall, it has amounted to no more than a name change from RCS to Faculty of Natural Sciences, and the new faculty students ' union has resurrected the name " Royal College of Science Union ".
Finally, Cousins observes that, "... in his reflections, Bower has a particularly damning judgement on Chamberlain, whom he accuses of ' brazen lying ' to parliament, and of what amounted to forgery in the documents made public for the inquiry.
The depolitisation of Eliade after the start of his diplomatic career was also mistrusted by his former close friend Eugène Ionesco, who indicated that, upon the close of World War II, Eliade's personal beliefs as communicated to his friends amounted to " all is over now that Communism has won ".
One author wrote that by the end of the war " the USO amounted to the biggest enterprise American show business has ever tackled.
There are estimates by the World Wildlife Fund that the Japanese government has had to invest $ 12 million into the 2008-09 hunt alone just to break even, and that subsidies in total have amounted to approximately $ 150 million since 1988.
As part of that effort, London city council committed to building the centre, and agreed to fund much of the cost, which has amounted to about $ 4. 5 million a year in debt financing so far.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) has ruled that these crimes amounted to crimes against humanity in numerous verdicts against Croat political and military leaders and soldiers, most notably Dario Kordić.
It is the only university in China that has received long-time funding from the Li Ka Shing Foundation, which has amounted to more than HK $ 5. 4 billion.
He has heavily criticised both Western and Russian government plans to ease the credit crunch, saying they amounted to a public bailout of bad decisions made by the private sector.
Mark Twain Tonight has repeatedly toured the country in what has amounted to over 2000 performances.
There has been the occasional call for disaffiliation but — in the absence of any major interference from the Students ' Union — these have not amounted to anything.
The number of subscribers after that has amounted to 43 and continuation of issuing the insert has been considered senseless.
The band have continued to dip into his portfolio for cover art ever since, having made a promise to that effect in the sleevenotes for this album, although in recent years this has amounted to little more than incorporating the tomato from the cover of Waiting For Columbus into a CAD image by RipBang design.
In September 2005, the Québec Labor Board ruled that the closing of a Walmart store amounted to a reprisal against unionized workers and has ordered additional hearings on possible compensation for the employees, though it offered no details.
In 1940, it was recorded that the Tai Po salt marshes were covering and that the production has amounted to 25, 000 piculs ( 1, 512 metric tons ) in 1938.
This alarmed the British government sufficiently to start stockpiling vaccines, although a retrospective analysis by the epidemiologist Martin Hugh-Jones has suggested that Steed's evidence could not have amounted to much.
Ian Humphrey's widow Di Gilcrist stated, " He is actually profiting from the experience and the stigma that the case has afforded him ... It is a sad reflection of the criminal justice system that something so black and white could be manipulated to absolve Eugene McGee of his lack of moral and ethical responsibility " Di Gilcrist subsequently complained to the legal board that McGee's actions the hit-run amounted to professional misconduct.
Since then the castle has amounted to little more than its foundation ruins and well.
The ISS Group ’ s revenue amounted to DKK 78 billion in 2011 and ISS now has more than 530, 000 employees in over 50 countries across Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America and Pacific, serving thousands of both public and private sector.

has and about
It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.
There are many domains in which understanding has brought about widespread and quite appropriate reduction in ritual and fear.
In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.
Studying The Merchant Of Venice in high school and college has given many young people their notions about Jews.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
The defensiveness has been exaggerated by another bad habit, our tendency to rate the `` goodness '' or `` badness '' of other nations by the extent to which they applaud the slogans we circulate about ourselves.
Segovia has written about Carl:
He has felt terrible about all this.
In this connection, Swift, too, is drawn in for attack: `` The Author of The Conduct Of The Allies has dared to drop Insinuations about altering the Succession ''.
Steele first answers briefly the charges which his `` dear old Friend '' has made about his pamphlet on Dunkirk and his Crisis.
On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.
Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.
At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
In the central contest, that for Mayor, they may have found some pertinent points in what each faction has said about the other.
The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.
According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.
The research center of the University's School of Business and Public Administration is prepared to undertake the analysis Dr. Ellis has been talking about.
Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
-- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has asked Congress for authority and funds to build fallout shelters costing about 200 million dollars.
It has not been any great mental effort on my part to keep up with this mechanization which has brought about new ways of dialing.

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