Because they prepare their own meals they also keep in their pockets a good portion of that $10.50 food bill along with most of the tip money.

The measured brightness temperature is a good approximation to the brightness temperature at the center of the lunar disk because of the narrow antenna beam and because the temperature distribution over the central portion of the moon's disk is nearly uniform.

Foreign policy themes were expressed considerably in George Washington's farewell address ; these included among other things, observing good faith and justice towards all nations and cultivating peace and harmony with all, excluding both " inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others ", " steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ", and advocating trade with all nations.

After which, the victorious Napoleon proceeded to dismantle the old Reich by severing a good portion from the empire and turning it into a separate Confederation of the Rhine.

The Treaty of Riga of 1921 settled the eastern border, preserving for Poland, at the cost of partitioning the lands of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( Lithuania and Belarus ) and Ukraine, a good portion of the old Commonwealth's eastern lands.

Hail forms in strong thunderstorm clouds, particularly those with intense updrafts, high liquid water content, great vertical extent, large water droplets, and where a good portion of the cloud layer is below freezing.

However, in the last chapters of Benjamin Major, written later than the Minor, Richard almost abandons his topic and the discussion of the teaching of mystical theology takes up a good portion of every remaining chapter.

When asked how he felt, he replied, " Well, I was scared a good portion of the time ; I guess that's a pretty good indication.

The beam has to have a large diameter so that only a small portion of the beam misses the sail due to diffraction and the laser or microwave antenna has to have a good pointing stability so that the craft can tilt its sails fast enough to follow the center of the beam.

Not long after his baptism he was ordained deacon, and soon afterward presbyter ; and some time between July 248 and April 249 he was chosen bishop of Carthage, a popular choice among the poor who remembered his patronage as demonstrating good equestrian style, while a portion of the presbytery opposed it, for all Cyprian's wealth and learning and diplomacy and literary talents.

However, the complete theory of the Abbe sine condition shows that if a lens is corrected for coma and spherical aberration, as all good photographic objectives must be, the second principal plane becomes a portion of a sphere of radius f centered about the focal point, ..." In this sense, the traditional thin-lens definition and illustration of f-number is misleading, and defining it in terms of numerical aperture may be more meaningful.

The Molniya orbit is highly inclined, guaranteeing good elevation over selected positions during the northern portion of the orbit.

( Note that even Liriel Baenre was arguably of evil alignment for the first portion of her life, only shifting to a good alignment after close relationships with several good-aligned characters.

Nevertheless, Chickamauga was the greatest Confederate victory in the Western Theater and Longstreet deserved a good portion of the credit.

In April 2008, the Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrated Paul Simon's works, and dedicated a week to Songs From the Capeman with a good portion of the show's songs performed by a cast of singers and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

A good portion of the Tug Hill Plateau is in the western part of the county.

Like a good portion of West Africa, Conakry's dry season is influenced by the harmattan between December and April.

However, unlike a good portion of West Africa, Conakry's wet season sees an extraordinary amount of precipitation.

The Rwandans were divided ; a portion of the royal court was wary and the other thought the Germans might be a good alternative to dominance by Buganda or the Belgians.

A significant portion of the post-war literature was concerned with the question of why some remained good Norwegian patriots while others, seemingly ordinary people, served the enemy.

This decision resulted in mixed reviews for both the band and the album ; a good portion did not favor the new sound and image, while others praised the band for attempting something different and experimenting rather than sticking to their roots.

Such events would seem to be spectacularly obvious, but they generally go unnoticed for a number of reasons: the majority of the Earth's surface is covered by water ; a good portion of the land surface is uninhabited ; and the explosions generally occur at relatively high altitude, resulting in a huge flash and thunderclap but no real damage.

Meanwhile, a good portion of the county had been repossessed by James and thus inherited by Peter.

A stream which has all of its watershed within a national forest or other lands under good conservation practices is less likely to be affected by pollution than one passing through unrestricted logging or past an industrial area.

In Britain particularly, good quality building stone became ever more expensive during a period of rapid growth, and it became a common practice to construct prestige buildings from the new industrial bricks, and to finish them with a stucco to imitate stone.

It is a town with a prosperous service sector which is also home to industrial companies and has good cultural and educational amenities.

Unlike the situation in France, the goal was support of industrialisation, and so heavy lines crisscrossed the Ruhr and other industrial districts, and provided good connections to the major ports of Hamburg and Bremen.

Unlike the situation in France, the goal was support of industrialisation, and so heavy lines crisscrossed the Ruhr and other industrial districts, and provided good connections to the major ports of Hamburg and Bremen.

The utilitarian good looks of the original Jeep have been hailed by industrial designers and museum curators alike.

The town, already a nascent industrial center with a sufficiently developed infrastructure and a good supply of skilled workers, would be an ideal location for the reconstituted factory.

The British Army needed months to re-supply properly and some planned introductions of new equipment were halted while industrial resources concentrated on making good the losses.

These strikes are also good training to help workers educate themselves about the class struggle, and about what it will take to execute an eventual general strike for the purpose of achieving industrial democracy.

Named for a Mohegan word meaning " good, fine, pleasant, delightful ," Wauregan has a long history as an industrial village.

Dalton was settled as a rural / industrial community, with mills set up along the East Branch of the Housatonic River, and small but good patches of farmland in areas away from it.

The municipality's name harks back to a 16th-century industrial operation established by the Crown at Nacka farmstead where conditions for water mills are good.

Its name means " good air ," reflecting its role as a resort getaway that wealthy Richmonders enjoyed for its fresh air as opposed to the dirty air of Richmond's industrial downtown of the late 19th century.

Although iron is quite abundant, good quality steel remained rare and expensive until the industrial developments of Bessemer process et al.

For a city to succeed, he thought it needed to be established only in places with good prospects for commerce and industrial growth, and with a good water supply.

Despite these defeats, the Red Army was able to fall back on the Don in reasonably good order, and also to evacuate much of the industrial plant of the Donbass.

The worldwide economic depression of 1893 caused a dramatic pause in sales and the plant closed down for five weeks, but industrial relations were good and the organized workforce declared faith in their employer.

Jonathan Ive, Apple ’ s senior vice president of industrial design, also said that Apple had found a good reason not to do focus groups: " They just ensure that you don ’ t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products.

The sad fact remains that field emitters and industrial vacuum conditions do not go well together, and the related problems of reliably ensuring good " vacuum robustness " of field emission sources used in such conditions still await better solutions ( probably cleverer materials solutions ) than we currently have.

This is because many casting foundries moved to suburb industrial parks and the sites turned into apartment buildings, whereas in suburb areas nature still remains and they are good healing spots for citizens of Kawaguchi.

Creativity and innovation and invention are sometimes upheld as fundamentally good especially in Western industrial society-all imply newness, and even opportunity to profit from novelty.

* Clywedog Valley – The power behind the industrial revolution in Wrexham, a number of good heritage attractions: ( Minera Leadmines, Nant Mill and Bersham Ironworks ) in a peaceful valley with good walks ( BBC's 20 hidden gems in 2007 )