Through a combination of poor judgment, lack of oversight by the bank's management and regulators, and unfortunate events like the Kobe earthquake, Leeson incurred a US $ 1. 3 billion loss that bankrupted the centuries-old institution.

Groucho's radio life was not as successful as his life on stage and in film, though historians such as Gerald Nachman and Michael Barson suggest that, in the case of the single-season Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel ( 1932 ), the failure may have been a combination of a poor time slot and the Marx Brothers ' returning to Hollywood to make another film.

Lactic acid build up ( in tissues and blood ) is a sign of inadequate mitochondrial oxygenation, which may be due to hypoxemia, poor blood flow ( e. g., shock ) or a combination of both.

This combination of poor sensitivity and specificity has resulted in its abandonment for this purpose by physicians experienced in disorders of glucose metabolism.

The term was widely used in the South at the turn of the 20th century in combination with other measures as a means of disfranchisement to bar poor people, especially blacks, from voter registration and voting.

Thus, the combination of poor harvests, the hardships of the peasants, high taxes, lack of representation of the people, and kingly ineptitude are among the causes of the French Revolution.

British operations in 1755, 1756 and 1757 in the frontier areas of Pennsylvania and New York all failed, due to a combination of poor management, internal divisions, and effective French and Indian offense.

The combination of war, confiscations, disease, assimilation and intermarriage, land loss leading to poor housing and alcohol abuse, and general disillusionment, caused a fall in the Māori population from around 86, 000 in 1769 to around 70, 000 in 1840 and around 48, 000 by 1874, hitting a low point of 42, 000 in 1896.

In the audio case, this is mainly caused by room acoustics, poor loudspeakers and microphones, long loudspeaker cables in combination with frequency dependent loudspeaker impedance, etc.

However, due to a combination of relatively poor sensitivity, slower than normal scan rates ( typically 2-3 °/ min-due to much heavier crucible ) and unknonwn activation energy, it is necessary to deduct about 75-100 ° C from the initial start of the observed exotherm to suggest a maximum temperature for the material.

In combination with poor sanitation and hygiene which leads to a greater density of lice, this reactivation is why typhus forms epidemics in times of social chaos and upheaval.

This was followed by a period that white Southerners labeled Redemption, in which white-dominated state legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws and ( after 1890 ) disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites through a combination of constitutional amendments and electoral laws.

The investigation of the incident determined that soon after takeoff, pilot Roger Peterson lost control of the plane due to a combination of poor weather conditions and pilot error, resulting in spatial disorientation.

Investigators of the Civil Aeronautics Board concluded that the crash was due to a combination of poor weather conditions and pilot error, resulting in spatial disorientation.

Attempting to reconcile the conflicting results, the Cahill team suggested that the high concentrations found by McCrone were due to a combination of contamination from modern dust, and poor sample selection ( i. e. choosing contaminant particles like those in the split ); however, they also chose not to publish or publicise Möller's loose particle study.

Running between the 1st of November and 4th of November 1996, the combination of several other gaming expos and the lack of support from Japanese game manufacturers meant the turnout was reported as ' poor ', and as such no further E3 / Tokyo events have taken place.

From 1960 to 1961, the combination of poor planning during the Great Leap Forward, political movements incited by the government, as well as unusual weather patterns and natural disasters resulted in widespread famine and many deaths.

However, due to a combination of relatively poor sensitivity, slower than normal scan rates ( typically 2-3 °/ min-due to much heavier crucible ) and unknown activation energy, it is necessary to deduct about 75-100 ° C from the initial start of the observed exotherm to suggest a maximum temperature for the material.

A combination of climate change and poor land use practices led to the collapse of these societies, but other native groups remained, many up to the present day.

* In the Battle of Germantown in 1777, a combination of late arrival, poor navigation and overpursuit resulted in Major General Adam Stephen's men colliding with General Anthony Wayne's troops.

In English, Franglais means a mangled combination of English and French, produced either by poor knowledge of one or the other language or for humorous effect.

This combination could lead to a system with a large number of internal spot-cooling fans that is overheating because there is poor overall airflow into and out of the case.

Soon, the combination of poor home gates and the lure of $ 2, 500 guarantees to play at larger venues ( like Wrigley Field, Comiskey Park and the Polo Grounds ), made the Triangles primarily a traveling team.

Some have suggested that she might have been an anorexic, while others attribute her poor health to an addiction to laudanum or to a combination of ailments.

The division suffered from a combination of bad weather and poor pilot navigation which caused many of the airborne troops to be dropped inaccurately throughout the divisional operational area, causing a number of casualties and making conducting operations much more difficult.

The systems used in AAC include gestures, hand signals, photographs, pictures, line drawings, words and letters, which can be used alone or in combination to communicate.

In principle all three color encoding systems can be combined with any scan line / frame rate combination.

If the shooter " hits " the point value again ( any value of the dice that sum to the point will do ; the shooter doesn't have to exactly repeat the value combination of the come-out roll ) before rolling a seven, the Pass line wins and a new round starts, usually with the dice staying with the current shooter.

Up a double and back-common combination in which dancers ( usually having linked hands in a line ) advance a double and then retire another double.

Alprostadil in combination with the permeation enhancer DDAIP has been approved in Canada under the brand name Vitaros as a topical cream first line treatment for erectile dysfunction.

Integrated services refers to ISDN's ability to deliver at minimum two simultaneous connections, in any combination of data, voice, video, and fax, over a single line.

Today ISDN ( BRI ) and ADSL / VDSL are often bundled on the same line, mainly because the combination of ADSL with an analog line has no cost advantage over a combined ISDN-ADSL line.

Some effects involved a combination of techniques ; a ray gun might require a pyrotechnic during filming, and then an optical glowing line added to the film image in post-production.

#: Consider a unit sphere placed at the origin, a rotation around the x, y or z axis will map the sphere onto itself, indeed any rotation about a line through the origin can be expressed as a combination of rotations around the three-coordinate axis, see Euler angles.

Payline is a straight or zig-zagged line that crosses through one symbol on each reel, along which a winning combination is evaluated.

The terbium ( III ) cation is brilliantly fluorescent, in a bright lemon-yellow color that is the result of a strong green emission line in combination with other lines in the orange and red.

This combination wagon / stagecoach / pony express / telegraph line route is labeled the Pony Express National Historic Trail on the National Trail Map.

A contour line is a combination of two line segments that connect but do not intersect ; these represent elevation on a topographic map.

He followed Stalin's line by using a combination of force and propaganda to crush peasant resistance to collectivisation, including the deportation of millions of kulaks ( peasants with property ) to labour camps.

In combination with new signalling, the new fleet increased overall capacity on the line by 27 %.

* The model function, f, in LLSQ ( linear least squares ) is a linear combination of parameters of the form The model may represent a straight line, a parabola or any other linear combination of functions.

These three elements formed a mutually supportive combination of tactical roles: the arquebusiers harried the enemy line, the pikemen protected the arquebusiers from enemy cavalry charges, and the men-at-arms, typically armed with swords and javelins, fought off enemy pikemen when two opposing squares made contact.

The city has traditionally been a " marriage center " because of the short waiting time after blood tests and proximity to the Tennessee state line ; one testing laboratory in the community offers a combination test / wedding package and sells clocks with the inscription, " I got married in Ringgold, Ga ."

The line continued to be used to transport goods until the 1960s, when a combination of road haulage and a decline in industry around the village lead to closure of the station in 1965.

The peculiar line is thought to be a combination of the head and heart lines on such hands that are separately marked on the rest of the hands.

When asked about his band, leader John Sebastian said it sounded like a combination of " Mississippi John Hurt and Chuck Berry ," prompting his friend, Fritz Richmond, to suggest the name " Lovin ' Spoonful " from a line in Hurt's song, " Coffee Blues ".