Some, like the British and the French, maintain an elaborate system of personal contacts and have experts constantly studying special areas of the American scene.

To keep options available for lower case letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter " A " was placed in position 41 < sub > hex </ sub > to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

British epistemologists, following Moore, suggested that humans have a special faculty, a faculty of moral intuition, which tells us what is good and bad, right and wrong.

Fitted with tapered conical hubs, special motocross forks and large alloy fuel tanks, a Cheney Triumph was first used in the 1968 British Trophy Team.

The most important development in this area of special techniques occurred, arguably, in 1899, with the production of the short film Matches: An Appeal, a thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War.

In the 1970s and 1980s, British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman ( 1978 ), Alien ( 1979 ), and Batman ( 1989 ).

British special effects technicians and production designers are known for creating visual effects at a far lower cost than their counterparts in the US, as seen in Time Bandits ( 1981 ) and Brazil ( 1985 ).

For a brief period in the 1790s the British attempted to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama, but by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory.

Britain became increasingly worried about the situation in Turkey and Prime Minister Aberdeen sent Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, a diplomat with vast experience in Turkey, as a special envoy to the Ottoman Empire to guard British interests.

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, and formerly a British crown colony.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.

As it was, a special meeting of the British cabinet called to consider the " final offer ", they declined to pass on the message to Warsaw under the grounds this was not a serious proposal on the part of Berlin.

By early 1961, the British had withdrawn their special court system, which handled the cases of foreigners resident in Kuwait, and the Kuwaiti Government began to exercise legal jurisdiction under new laws drawn up by an Egyptian jurist.

The first British experimental design ( the destroyer HMS Velox ) had been constructed in 1901 and as a result Tirpitz had set up a special commission to develop turbines.

In 2009, it emerged that a British Special Air Service team were training Libyan special forces.

They were of intense interest to Agassiz, and formed the subject of a special monograph by him published in 1844 – 45: Monographie des poissons fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge, ou Systeme Devonien ( Old Red Sandstone ) des Iles Britanniques et de Russie (" Monograph on Fossil Fish of the Old Red Sandstone, or Devonian System of the British Isles and of Russia ").

Historically, therefore, Palestine was an anomaly within the Mandate system, in a class of its own – initially referred to by the British as a “ special regime ”:

Byron, commanding the British warship HMS Blonde, was returning to London from a special mission to Honolulu to repatriate the remains of the young king and queen of Hawaii, who had died of measles during a visit to Britain.

In 1941, the British Secret Service had John Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of the game outside the U. S., create a special edition for World War II prisoners of war held by the Nazis.

British ethicist Phillipa Foot elaborates that morality does not seem to have any special binding force, and she clarifies that people will only behave morally when they are motivated to do so due to other factors.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

The Office of Strategic Services was established by a Presidential military order issued by President Roosevelt on June 13, 1942, to collect and analyze strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to conduct special operations not assigned to other agencies.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

The operation was composed of elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, TF Rakkasan, B Co. 159th Avn Rgt, 75th Ranger Regiment, the US Special Operation Forces groups to include elements of forces from USSOCOM, JSOC and CIA's Special Activities Division, TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, Canada's 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, the Turkish Maroon Berets, the Norwegian FSK and Marinejegerkommandoen, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, the New Zealand Special Air Service and Danish special forces from Jægerkorpset and the Danish Frogman Corps.

It produced the Catholic – Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965, which was read out on December 7, 1965, simultaneously at a public meeting of the Second Vatican Council in Rome and at a special ceremony in Constantinople.

The McNamara Taylor mission resulted in the suspension of funding for Nhu's special forces until they were placed under the command of the army's Joint General Staff ( JGS ) and sent into battle.

* 330th Aircraft Sustainment WingThe wing provides weapon system logistics support, oversees unscheduled and programmed depot maintenance, and manages modification efforts for the Air Force ’ s fleet of C-5, C-130, C-17, F-15, U-2, and E-8C Joint STARS aircraft, Global Hawk, Distributed Common Ground System ( DCGS ), MC-130, HC-130 and various special operations combat search and rescue aircraft and helicopters to include AC-130H / U, MC-130E / H / P, EC-130J, MH-53J / M, HH-60G, UH-1N, TH-1H, and HC-130P / N.

Matters not requiring reference to another Joint, House or Senate committee are, following the first reading, referred without debate to the Committee on Steering and Policy in the Senate ( except certain special laws relative to a city or town ), or placed in the Orders of the Day ( the Calendar ) without debate, for a second reading in the House.

Representative Daniel ’ s proposal went even further — he wanted a national special operations agency headed by a civilian who would bypass the Joint Chiefs and report directly to the Secretary of Defense ; this would keep Joint Chiefs and the Services out of the SOF budget process.

January 1993, a Special Forces command element deployed to Mogadishu as the Joint Special Operations Forces-Somalia ( JSOFOR ) that would command and control all special operations for Restore Hope.

Realising that through journeys were an important part of their business, the companies established special rolling stock in 1860 on a collaborative basis ; it was called the " East Coast Joint Stock ".

Joint Task Force 2 ( JTF2 ) () is an elite special operations force of the Canadian Forces primarily tasked with counter-terrorism operations.

On July 16, 1943, Pravda reported: " Mikhoels and Feffer received a message from Chicago that a special conference of the Joint initiated a campaign to finance a thousand ambulances for the needs of the Red Army.

Most joint committees are standing committees ( for example, the Joint Committee on the Library ) but special joint committees have been created to address specific issues ( such as the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War ).

From May 1940 to December 1941 he was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, and subsequently in Washington, as Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission and then Senior British Representative on the Combined Chiefs of Staff, played a significant role during World War II in the formation of the " special relationship " between the United Kingdom and the United States.

Prior to his last assignment, Schoomaker spent over 30 years in a variety of assignments with both conventional and special operations forces – he is the first Special Forces-trained Army Chief of Staff and the second to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( General Henry H. Shelton was the first, when he served as Chairman ).

A special act of Congress,, signed on December 1, 2005, directed the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of Rosa Parks and to place the statue in the United States Capitol in National Statuary Hall in a suitable permanent location.

SAD / SOG has several hundred officers, mostly former members of special operations forces ( SOF ) and a majority from the Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC ).

At this point, George Barnett was to succeed William Biddle as Commandant as Captain Ellis had orders for special assignment as a member of a special committee established by the Joint Army-Navy Board to study the defense of Guam.

: 310th Airlift Squadron ( 310 AS ) Operates three Gulfstream C-37A Gulfstream V aircraft utilizing highly experienced flight crews to provide global transportation on special assignment airlift missions ( SAAM ) directly supporting the Combatant Commanders of U. S. Central Command, U. S. Southern Command, U. S. Special Operations Command, U. S. Northern Command, U. S. Transportation Command, U. S. Joint Forces Command, and U. S. Strategic Command.

He served as a member of the Senate Finance and Banking and Currency Committees, as well as the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and the special Senate Ethics Committee.