** 2NT: 11-13 or 16 +, balanced

** 2NT =

** Jacoby 2NT

** 2NT, giving the strong partner the option of continuing to game or playing a partial game, in either no trump or the transferred suit

** 2NT ( Acol-I have 12 HCP )

** Banishment of the locusts and restoration of agricultural productivity as a divine response to national penitence.

** Alimentary ( rapid jejunal emptying with exaggerated insulin response )

** Synaptic plasticity, the property of a neuron or synapse to change its internal parameters in response to its history

** civil defense, emergency preparedness, community emergency response teams

** Two separate register files, which could be quickly switched, to speed up response to interrupts

** The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – ongoing ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings which were blamed on the Chechens.

** U. S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U. S. President George Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.

** In Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, in response to rumours ( which are true ) that he is seeking to end the French alliance system in Eastern Europe, gives a speech highlighting his government's commitment to the cordon sanitaire.

** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".

** WWII: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

** Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.

** The Australian government introduces a nationwide ban on the private possession of both automatic and semi-automatic rifles, in response to the Port Arthur massacre.

** Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo against Cuba, Fidel Castro nationalizes all American and foreign-owned property in Cuba.

** Mother Frances Hospital opens in Tyler, Texas in response to the New London School explosion.

** The European Economic Community lifts economic sanctions on South Africa in response to moves to end the apartheid system.

** In response to the end of apartheid, the International Olympic Committee readmits South Africa to the Olympics.

** WWII: In response to Germany levelling Coventry 2 days before, the Royal Air Force begins to bomb Hamburg ( by war's end, 50, 000 Hamburg residents will have died from Allied attacks ).

** In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon B. Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

** The United States Energy Research and Development Administration is founded, in response to the 1973 oil crisis.

** Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U. S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran.

** Planning, Training, and Exercise Support ( PTE )-Our mission is to ensure NCS readiness, enhance partnerships within government and industry, coordinate telecommunications operational planning among NCS elements, develop emergency response requirements, and to provide skilled civilians and reservists during crises and emergencies.

** Burned area emergency response

** a person has failed to attend court in response to a summons,

** finger tip conductivity ; where conductive yarns or a conductive patch is found only on the tips of the fingers ( typically the index finger and thumb ) thus allowing for basic touch response

** full hand conductivity ; where the entire gloves is made from conductive materials allowing for robust tactile touch and dexterity good for accurate typing and multi-touch response

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

** Atlas V ( 2002 – Present )

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

** The Banach – Tarski paradox.

** The Nielsen – Schreier theorem, that every subgroup of a free group is free.

** The Hahn – Banach theorem in functional analysis, allowing the extension of linear functionals

** The Banach – Alaoglu theorem about compactness of sets of functionals.

** Every Tychonoff space has a Stone – Čech compactification.

** This is a distinguished work which stands out from, and above, many of the books and articles which have ben written in this century on Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā ) ( A. D. 980 – 1037 ).

** The numbers and are not algebraic numbers ( see the Lindemann – Weierstrass theorem ); hence they are transcendental.

** Laozi ( 5th – 4th century BC )

** Ge Hong ( 283 AD – 343 AD )

** Xun Zi ( c. 312 BC – 230 BC )

** Gongsun Long ( c. 325 BC – c. 250 BC )

** Zou Yan ( 305 BC – 240 BC )

** Mani ( c. 216 AD – 276 AD )

** Haliotis brazieri f. hargravesi ( Cox, 1869 ) – synonym: Haliotis ethologus, the Mimic abalone, Haliotis hargravesi, the Hargraves ’ s abalone

** Haliotis dalli roberti McLean, 1970 – synonym: Haliotis roberti

** Haliotis diversicolor squamata Reeve, 1846 – synonym: Haliotis squamata – the scaly Australian abalone

** Haliotis diversicolor supertexta – the Taiwan abalone or jiukong

** Haliotis kamtschatkana assimilis Dall, 1878 – synonym: Haliotis assimilis, the threaded abalone

** Haliotis ovina f. patamakanthini Dekker, Regter, & Gras, 2001 – synonym: Haliotis patamakanthini

** Haliotis rubra conicopora Péron, 1816 – synonym: Haliotis conicopora – the conical pore abalone