The town boasted a " socio-cultural mix ," sat near the exact geographic center of the continental U. S., and Hume and Meyer's research told them that Lawrence was a prime missile target, because 150 Minuteman missile silos stood nearby.

The growth of the Internet was one of the prime contributors to globalization during the decade, making it possible for people to interact with other people, express ideas, introduce others to different cultures and backgrounds, use goods and services, sell and buy online, research and learn about anything, along with experiencing the whole world without having to leave home.

Among the think tanks set up by the government, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies ( BIISS ) stands as one of the prime organizations that works to undertake and promote research and deliberation on international affairs, security and developmental issues of the country.

A succession of prime ministers since the Second World War had been determined to persuade the United States to revive wartime co-operation in the area of nuclear weapons research.

He was also a research assistant to the former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam, which included working on the latter's book The Whitlam Government.

Cystic fibrosis is a prime target for gene therapy research.

In 1933 Skokholm was functioning as a bird observatory, the first in Britain, founded by Ronald Lockley ; its prime function was the ringing of wild birds of resident, visiting or migrating species and research.

The MRC was founded as the Medical Research Committee and Advisory Council in 1913, with its prime role being the distribution of medical research funds under the terms of the National Insurance Act 1911.

In January 1950 President Harry S. Truman directed the Atomic Energy Commission to emphasize thermonuclear research, with the prime objective to become operational in delivering hydrogen bombs.

Much of Pogorzelski's research concerns the Goldbach conjecture, the still-unsolved problem of whether every even number can be represented as a sum of two prime numbers.

Proposals include allowing more free votes, giving committees more authority, increase research budgets, allowing chairs of house committees to be elected rather than appointed by the prime minister, giving MPs a role in choosing which committees they sit on rather than having them assigned by the prime minister or government house leader.

Space research was further encouraged by the technically inclined prime minister of India — Jawaharlal Nehru.

Raising the percentage must be one of the prime objectives of sheep research in the future, and crossing existing breeds with the Border Leicester, which was known to be of high fertility, might offer at least one solution to the problem.

At the mother party convention in 2005, after heavy research including an interview with former Estonian prime minister Mart Laar, KU proposed a resolution committing the party to a flat tax system, instead of the current progressive Danish tax system.

The prime area of research and consultancy work involved key functional areas of management viz., marketing, HR, finance, system / IT, etc.

Psychic Alex Gardner ( Dennis Quaid ) was the 19-year-old prime subject of a scientific research project documenting his psychic ability, but in the midst of the study he disappeared and has since been using his talents solely for personal gain, which lately consists mainly of gambling and womanizing.

It " supports research into the history, origins and traditions of Australian democracy, with a particular focus on Australian prime ministers.

He also gives the history of the ring, and that letter became the prime source for future research into its history.

Chris Caldwell's Prime Pages has a version adapted to prime number research which is a field with many famous unsolved problems that are easy to understand for amateur mathematicians.

Called by Vollenhoven the Consequent Problem-Historical Method ( CPHM ), the approach proved fascinating to Tol, who became one of its prime users in his own philosophical research and a theorizer of the development of the philosophical movement which had given it birth.

In September 2010, tenor Andrea Bocelli held a concert at the Odeon, attended by then prime minister George Papandreou, and Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, to raise funds for Cancer research.

He was born in Pontremoli, where he also died, aged 103 ( 103 is a prime number !, his main field of research were prime numbers ).

* Russia was a prime mover in the establishment of the Balkan League and saw it as an essential tool in case of a future war against its rival, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

With the advent of agriculture, larger areas began to be deforested, and fire became the prime tool to clear land for crops.

Prime ideals, which generalize prime elements in the sense that the principal ideal generated by a prime element is a prime ideal, are an important tool and object of study in commutative algebra, algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry.

Such bell pits may also mark the sites of ancient flint mines, where the prime object was to remove flint nodules for stone tool manufacture.

* Russia was a prime mover in the establishment of the League and saw it as an essential tool in case of a future war against her rival, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The science of geochronology is the prime tool used in the discipline of chronostratigraphy, which attempts to derive absolute age dates for all fossil assemblages and determine the geologic history of the Earth and extraterrestrial bodies.

* Russia was a prime mover in the establishment of the Balkan League and saw it as an essential tool in case of a future war against its rival, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

As a prime location for habitation the heath ( and Petersfield area in general ) has always been occupied with frequent finds of flint axe and tool remnants from the Mesolithic period ( up to 10, 000 years ago ).

Radar was a prime tool in World War II for locating surfaced submarines.

* Although generally sold to legislatures as a tool to redevelop blighted areas, some districts are drawn up where development would happen anyway such as prime areas at the edges of cities.

* In computer algebra, the resultant is a tool that can be used to analyze modular images of the greatest common divisor of integer polynomials where the coefficients are taken modulo some prime number.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of zinc as long as the market price for prime western zinc at East Saint Louis, Illinois, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 55 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

Since he can neither accept nor reject them all, he must be governed by the time and energy available for his prime professional obligations.

The Jews for 2500 years have been a prime example, though the adherents of any world or interpeople religion are cases in point.

I would propose, next, as the prime requirement for constitution of new basic lists, items whose forms show as high an empirical retention rate as possible.

A prime objective of the Army Quartermaster Corps program is to find the reasons for beef's low palatability and means of overcoming it, since it is a major and desirable dietary item.

Cattle drove to the northern ranges and held for two winters to mature 'em into prime beef were said to be `` double wintered ''.

If Mahzeer was planning to set up the prime minister for Muller he would have to do it in the next few minutes.

With a cop patrolling the road Muller would have to be inside a building -- if he was here at all, and not waiting for the prime minister somewhere between this street and the terminal building at La Guardia Airport.

There seems to be an unfortunate assumption that an hour of Chicago-style jazz in prime evening time, for example, could not be justified without the trimmings of a portentous documentary.

Yet for much of the globe, Hollywood is just that -- prime, if not sole, source of knowledge.

And Khrushchev turned out to be prime copy for the most witty caricaturist of them all.

While Nicomachus ' algorithm is the same as Euclid's, when the numbers are prime to one another it yields the number " 1 " for their common measure.

** Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras needs the Boolean prime ideal theorem.

The prime evidence for this theory was provided by a descendant of Clarke.

In 1876, Spalding won 47 games as the prime pitchers for the Chicago White Stockings, who captured the National League's inaugural pennant by a wide margin.

Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.

Although not officially announced, the original backup crew consisted of Fred Haise ( CDR ), William R. Pogue ( CMP ) and Gerald Carr ( LMP ) who were targeted for the prime crew assignment on Apollo 19.

The standard symbol for marking the arcminute is the prime (′) ( U + 2032 ), though a single quote (') ( U + 0027 ) is commonly used where only ASCII characters are permitted.

The standard symbol for the arcsecond is the double prime (″) ( U + 2033 ), though a double quote (") ( U + 0022 ) is commonly used where only ASCII characters are permitted.

Abdera was a wealthy city, the third richest in the League, due to its status as a prime port for trade with the interior of Thrace and the Odrysian kingdom.

Only a proper, artist-grade acrylic gesso should be used to prime canvas in preparation for painting with acrylic ( however acrylic paint can be applied to raw canvas if so desired without any negative effect or chemical reaction as would be the case with oils ).

* For a finite field of prime order p, the algebraic closure is a countably infinite field which contains a copy of the field of order p < sup > n </ sup > for each positive integer n ( and is in fact the union of these copies ).