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On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, it issued a complicated decision totaling 272 pages in length, that, with a 5-4 majority, upheld the key provisions of McCain-Feingold including ( 1 ) the " electioneering communication " provisions ( which required disclosure of and prohibited the use of corporate and union treasury funds to pay for or broadcast cable and satellite ads clearly identifying a federal candidate targeted to the candidate's electorate within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election ); and ( 2 ) the " soft money " ban ( which prohibited federal parties, candidates, and officeholders from raising or spending funds not in compliance with contribution restrictions, and prohibited state parties from using such " soft money " in connection with federal elections ).

Porter's unusual depth is due to the MBTA's decision to build the station in rock rather than soft clay, saving time and money in the construction process.

This may lead to political interference in the decision, for example the decision made over hemp seed, when the Food Standards scientists recommended that hemp seed be allowed for sale, but the ministers vetoed this because they didn't want to appear soft on drugs.

There are hard decision and soft decision Viterbi decoders.

In 1445, as Dias was beginning to enter old age and made the decision to take up exploring because " he was unwilling to let himself grow soft in the well being of repose ", left Portugal and sailed down the West African coast, setting a new record by reaching a point about 800 kilometres south of Cap Blanc.

" In this case, criminal charges were not pursued against Mr. Vizard because the DPP was not satisfied that there was admissible, substantial and reliable evidence of the offence and therefore there were not reasonable prospects of securing a conviction … Whilst this was a decision for the DPP, it was also consistent with senior counsel advice that ASIC had independently received .... When ASIC announced on 4 July that we were pursuing civil penalties against Mr. Vizard, there were some suggestions in the press that we had gone soft or that we had somehow been nobbled by government.

Coca-Cola appealed against the decision and, in December 1999, the relevant court of appeal ruled once again in his favour prohibiting the use of his intellectual property as a trademark for soft drinks.

The decision to equip British tanks with an HE shell firing gun for " soft " targets like infantry and, importantly, anti-tank guns was taken by the War Office.

" Hardwired " ( as opposed to software programmable soft microprocessors described above ) digital logic IP cores are also licensed for fixed functions such as MP3 audio decode, 3D GPU, digital video decode, and other DSP functions such as FFT, DCT, or Viterbi coding.

A soft encryption option was also available where the encrypted video could be transmitted with a fixed key and any VideoCrypt decoder could decode it.

The ink receives impressions like traditional soft ground, resists the ferric chloride etchant, yet can be cleaned up with warm water and either soda ash solution or ammonia.

It's interesting to note that as well as a big bouquet, the winner of the annual pro cycling race Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne also receives a soft toy version of ' Ambroos ' to wave from the stage.

Supporting the first account, in the Dhammapada, the pleasure and joy that a man receives in his wife and children is called a " soft fetter " that ties individuals to life and suffering, not just through eventual loss and separation of loved ones but more deeply and subtly may act as ties to cyclic existence ( samsara ).

An example of illegal use of undisclosed soft dollars might be when a mutual fund manager pays excess commissions and as a quid pro quo receives an allocation of a hot IPO from his broker ( so he can flip the IPO, generally before the end of the stabilization period, for a fast profit ).

* Used as a carrier, coating or separating agent for other substances ; for example, it makes beta-carotene water-soluble thus imparting a yellow colour to any soft drinks containing beta-carotene.

In fiber optics communications, a soft gel resembling " hair gel " in viscosity is used to fill the plastic tubes containing the fibers.

Several types of astrophysical objects emit, fluoresce, or reflect X-rays, from galaxy clusters, through black holes in active galactic nuclei ( AGN ) to galactic objects such as supernova remnants, stars, and binary stars containing a white dwarf ( cataclysmic variable stars and super soft X-ray sources ), neutron star or black hole ( X-ray binaries ).

Some resins when soft are known as ' oleoresins ', and when containing benzoic acid or cinnamic acid they are called balsams.

The AAH has been criticized for containing multiple inconsistencies and lacking evidence from the fossil record to support its claims ( Morgan, for instance, failed to discuss any fossils found after 1960 and much of her analysis is by comparing soft tissues between humans and aquatic species ).

The fruit is a two to four-valved dehiscent capsule, green to reddish-brown, mature in mid summer, containing numerous minute light brown seeds surrounded by tufts of long, soft, white hairs which aid wind dispersal.

Bituminous coal or black coal is a relatively soft coal containing a tarlike substance called bitumen.

The palatine uvula, usually referred to as simply the uvula (), is a conic projection from the posterior edge of the middle of the soft palate, composed of connective tissue containing a number of racemose glands, and some muscular fibers ( musculus uvulae ).

Argasidae is a family of ticks containing the soft ticks.

The seed cones are highly modified, each cone containing a single seed 4-7 mm long partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red berry-like structure called an aril, 8-15 mm long and wide and open at the end.

* diuretic foods ( foods and beverages containing caffeine, such as chocolate, coffee, tea, and soft drinks ; hot spicy foods ; juices high in acid ; alcoholic beverages ; protein shakes, etc.

The fruit is a small capsule about long and diameter, containing numerous small seeds ; in a few species ( previously classified in the separate genus Nicodemia ) the capsule is soft and fleshy, forming a berry.

Gelato is defined in English as a soft ice cream containing little or no air.

More expensive san mai knives have a similar quality, containing an inner core of hard and brittle carbon steel, with a thick layer of soft and more ductile steel sandwiched around the core so that the hard steel is exposed only at the cutting edge.

These soft line breaks also allow encoding text without line breaks ( or containing very long lines ) for an environment where line size is limited, such as the " 1000 characters per line " limit of some SMTP software, as allowed by RFC 2821.

A trail extending beyond this loop leads to Alcove House ( formerly called Ceremonial Cave, and still so identified on some maps ), a shelter cave produced by erosion of the soft rock and containing a small, reconstructed kiva that hikers may enter via ladder.

Bawls Guarana is a highly caffeinated soft drink containing natural Guarana flavor and a relatively high amount of caffeine, amongst other ingredients.

The meat of the fruit is soft and white with a jelly-like pulp containing five seeds covered with a soft woolly substance.

Several bag-in-box containers ( here, containing Fountain drink | soft drink syrup ), connected to a soda fountain | fountain drink system

Starting with red clay pottery they moved on to blue glaze and on red clay articles with engobe of white clay, painting floral designs with cupric oxide and applying a soft glaze containing glass and borax etc.

Also, the left superior parietal lobule, Brodmann's area 7, has been shown to play a role in active image construction during the viewing of art specifically containing indeterminate forms such as soft edge paintings.

Although containing soft centres within fritters can be tricky, it is a common misconception that in this case they contain bread.

Benecliff grit, a soft sandstone containing large doggers, is well exposed at the headland, Bran Point.

New publications that have demonstrated development of pseudotumors, soft tissue masses containing necrotic tissue, around the hip joint.

Bioinformatics also deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, structural biology, software engineering, data mining, image processing, modeling and simulation, discrete mathematics, control and system theory, circuit theory, and statistics.

An additional specimen, studied using ultra-violet light, revealed even more information on the soft anatomy of Pterodactylus.

Some common forms of collusion are: soft play, that is, failing to bet or raise in a situation that would normally merit it, to avoid costing one's partner or friend money ; whipsawing, where partners raise and re-raise each other to trap players in between ; dumping, where a cheater will deliberately lose to a partner ; and signalling, or trading information between partners via signals of some sort, like arranging their chips in a certain manner.

Via loading their saved games, players could also use Data Review to view detailed information about their data-from total hours of play, to frequency of mini-game plays, to the number of soft drinks purchased.

The success of soft power heavily depends on the actor's reputation within the international community, as well as the flow of information between actors.

The information age has also led to the rise of soft power resources for non-state actors.

Made of soft leather, drivers gloves are unlined with external seams, which makes them seamless inside so as not to interfere with the sensitivity of the drivers touch on the steering wheel, and subsequently information from where the tire contacts the road.

This may have prepared the offspring for coping with an unpredictable environment .... Transmissions of information across generations which does not involve traditional inheritance of DNA-sequence alleles is often referred to as soft inheritance or ' Lamarckian inheritance '.

Means of exercising soft power include diplomacy, dissemination of information, analysis, propaganda, and cultural programming to achieve political ends.

An extreme example occurs in Spanish, where palatalized (' soft ') g has ended up as ; this results from a long process where became palatalized to, then assibilated to, deaffricated to, devoiced to shifted back to the velar place of articulation ( See History of Spanish and ceceo for more information ).

Iu interfaces carry user traffic ( such as voice or data ) as well as control information ( see Protocols ), and Iur interface is mainly needed for soft handovers involving 2 RNCs though not required as the absence of Iur will cause these handovers to become hard handovers.

However, other wavelengths ( like soft x-rays ) are preferred where analytical information is required.

* The Nimbin Hemp Embassy is a " soft entry point for drug information ", and a shop selling anything to do with Hemp, except cannabis itself.

The current Lime online website offers information and entertainment centered around physical and mental health with a soft focus on organic ingredients, whole foods consumption, mental conditioning through meditation and yoga, and physical fitness.

Whilst Power FM took on Capital FM's long-established, successful and highly polished sound, Ocean FM became a more music-led station, playing heavy rotation soft adult contemporary hits, with its news and information sequences reduced in length and finishing with the sentence " And that's the way it is at < time check >".

Information shown on a display device is called soft copy because the information exists electronically and is displayed for a temporary period of time.

* Frank Hutson Gregory ( 1993 ) A logical analysis of soft systems modelling: implications for information system design and knowledge based system design.

* Benefits of Chipkill-Correct ECC for PC Server Main Memory-A 1997 discussion of SDRAM reliability-some interesting information on " soft errors " from cosmic rays, especially with respect to Error-correcting code schemes

Direct fusion is the fusion of sensor data from a set of heterogeneous or homogeneous sensors, soft sensors, and history values of sensor data, while indirect fusion uses information sources like a priori knowledge about the environment and human input.

" and commit suicide by shooting themselves with a single bullet that goes through the sides of all of their apparently soft heads ( for more information, see " Censorship " below ).

There is some confusion or lack of information on how the team was renamed from a soft drink product to a cellphone brand.

As early generations of end-user soft / hardware were not able to generate sectors with illegal structural information, this feature could not be re-generated with such soft / hardware.