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The graphs of friction force reported by Stribeck stem from a carefully conducted, wide-ranging series of experiments on journal bearings.
* November 2 – After aerial reconnaissance reveals the destruction of the Egyptian Air Force, the British invasion force commander, General Sir Charles Keightley, orders British and French aircraft to begin a wide-ranging interdiction campaign against Egypts military bases, infrastructure, and economy.
Grant decided on a wide-ranging cavalry raid ( the Wilson-Kautz Raid ) against the South Ride and Weldon railroads, but he also directed that a significant infantry force be sent against the Weldon closer to his current position.
The Finance Act 2004 implemented wide-ranging changes to the UK pensions regime, most of which came into force on 6 April 2006 ( also known as A-Day ).

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Despite wide-ranging poverty, Haiti increased its mobile phone coverage rate from 6 % to 30 % in one year ( May 2006 to May 2007 ).
Besides establishing the system of Delegates, he created the wide-ranging supervisory post of " Architypographus ": an academic who would have responsibility for every function of the business, from print shop management to proofreading.
By then, OUP had moved from being a parochial printer into a wide-ranging, university-owned publishing house with a growing international presence.
The second Wilson government implemented a wide-ranging programme of social reform during its two years in office, with spending on education, health, price controls, and housing rents expanded from 1974 to 1976, amongst other reforms.
Stories may feature the wide-ranging struggles national or world-spanning concerns common to high fantasy, but told from the point of view of characters more common to S & S and with the sense of adventure common to the latter.
In the final chapter of Book I, Hindemith seeks to illustrate the wide-ranging relevance and applicability and of his system in analysis of music examples ranging from the early origins of European music to the contemporary.
Following him and Jane Ellen Harrison, several generations of scholars, usually arguing from known myths or oral traditions and examination of Neolithic female cult-figures, suggested that many ancient societies might have been matriarchal, or even that there existed a wide-ranging matriarchal society prior to the ancient cultures of which we are aware.
The interests of Theophrastus were wide-ranging, extending from biology and physics to ethics and metaphysics.
Constructing such societies as a kind of political ideal, or at least an instructive comparison against which to denounce contemporary ( especially industrial ) societies, Zerzan uses anthropological studies from such societies as the basis for a wide-ranging critique of aspects of modern life.
Freed from the traditional and more-restrictive judging rules of the late 1960s, corps began making innovative changes such as the use of multi-valve horns, wide-ranging tempos, intricate asymmetric drill formations, elaborate guard costumes and props, and the use of stationary orchestral percussion instruments.
W H Smith is the sponsor of the WH Smith Literary Award, which has been running since 1959 and is one of the most wide-ranging of literary prizes, admitting works of all genres from authors of all ages and both sexes from across the world.
The duties of a system administrator are wide-ranging, and vary widely from one organization to another.
Pre-tax profits fell by 13 % during the year ended 30 April 1994, prompting a wide-ranging strategic review known as " Safeway 2000 ", led by the then Chief executive, Colin Smith, with assistance from McKinsey Consulting.
This division of exhibits by service, and by civil or military activity, persisted until a wide-ranging redisplay of the galleries from the 1960s onwards.
During 2008 Mike Smith rapidly changed his stance and announced on the CDA's forum that he had rejoined the Conservative Party: " After wide-ranging initial doubts, Mike Smith has now enthusiastically accepted David Cameron's reform agenda and returned to the Conservative Party from UKIP ".
Mexican American history is wide-ranging, spanning more than 400 years and varying from region to region within the United States.
José Cecilio Díaz del Valle ( November 22, 1780 – March 2, 1834 ) was a philosopher, politician, lawyer, and journalist and one of the most important figures in Central America during the transition from colonial government to independence, displaying a wide-ranging expertise in public administration management.
Above the + rulers is a council of " royals ", and then " wizards ", who are MUSH-wide administrators who have wide-ranging responsibilities that range from code and server maintenance to user arbitration and game theme oversight.
) Buxb., is a wide-ranging variable species occurring from Canada to Mexico, and found throughout New Mexico below about.
However, wide-ranging support from many Western leaders for Vlad III prompted Matthias to gradually grant privileged status to his controversial prisoner.
Being a renowned bass singer himself, his use of wide-ranging and rhythmically active bass lines sets him apart from many of the other composers in the Netherlandish Schools.
Moving away from the Latin style which had dominated the releases of the previous 10 years, these albums were the most wide-ranging and least commercial Group releases, including experimentations with sequenced synthetic drums on one track, free-form improvisation on acoustic instruments, and symphonic signatures, blues and sonata schemes.
Loss of voltage from the vehicle battery may have wide-ranging effects — from a trivial loss of radio receiver preset stations to a significant loss of security codes or engine control parameters.

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The Assuwa league was a confederation of states in western Anatolia concluding a wide-ranging array of minor Anti-Hittite powers across the region.
Chardin's influence on the art of the modern era was wide-ranging, and has been well-documented.
His wide-ranging Spirit of the Laws ( 1748 ) spanned legal, geographical, cultural, economic, political and philosophical studies and was greatly influential in forging the fundamentally interdisciplinary historian.
He believed that an appropriate level of adult competence was achieved through a wide-ranging education, whether this occurred in a classroom or not.
Milken was accused of using a wide-ranging network of contacts to manipulate stock and bond prices.
Askin's time in office was marked by a significant increase in public works programs, strong opposition to an increase in Commonwealth powers, laissez-faire economic policies and wide-ranging reforms in laws and regulations such as the Law Reform Commission, the introduction of consumer laws, legal aid, breath-testing of drivers, the liberalisation of liquor laws and the restoration of Postal voting in NSW elections.
* Thomas A. Sebeok ( 1920 – 2001 ), a student of Charles W. Morris, was a prolific and wide-ranging American semiotician.
But Daimler's strategy with Bazzetta proved to be a failure as the U. S. criminal investigation for violating anti-bribery laws was already underway in what is one of the most wide-ranging cases brought against a foreign corporation.
The naming conventions for the later period grew out of a desire to indicate status, connections and ancestry, in a way that was much more wide-ranging than could be shown by the tria nomina.
Although the rebels ' grievances were wide-ranging, the most significant was the suppression of the monasteries, blamed on the King's " evil counsellors ", principally Cromwell and Cranmer.
Andropov aimed to achieve " the destruction of dissent in all its forms " and always insisted that " the struggle for human rights was a part of a wide-ranging imperialist plot to undermine the foundation of the Soviet state ".
Black's short book (" about an even shorter book ," as he put it ) was succeeded — as an E-book published in 20l1 at the online Anarchist Library — by " Nightmares of Reason ," a longer and more wide-ranging critique of Bookchin's anthropological and historical arguments, especially Bookchin's espousal of " libertarian municipalism " which Black ridiculed as " mini-statism.
Paal Brekke was modernism's foremost advocate against traditionalists such as Arnulf Øverland and André Bjerke in a wide-ranging debate about poetic forms which in recognized as the speaking-in-tongues debate.
Gollancz often claimed to be a Christian, although he was never baptised and his understanding of the religion was a highly idiosyncratic one, overall his personal syncretic faith drew on Pelagian Christianity, Judaism, and wide-ranging reading across religious traditions.
It was an iron-foundry and machine factory with a wide-ranging production volume of iron-made parts as bridges, cranes, floodgates, steam boiler, steam engines etc.
It was widely accepted that the Treaty of Nice has failed to deal with the basic question of wide-ranging institutional reform, the European Union institutions being widely viewed as overly complicated, and hence the establishment of the European Convention, leading to a new IGC in 2004, was agreed at Nice.
The following poem was quoted by the ancient scholar Athenaeus in his wide-ranging discourses Scholars at Dinner and it demonstrates some of the characteristics of Ibycean verse:
In 1967, The Ford Foundation was implicated in a wide-ranging scandal concerning CIA funding of domestic and international organizations.
The Nintendo 64's analog stick allowed for more precise and wide-ranging character movements than the digital D-pads of other consoles, and Super Mario 64 used this in a way that was unique for its time.
From the beginning his was a very wide-ranging apostolate in social environments of all kinds.
The principle was key in the decision of Marbury v. Madison, wherein it was necessary to establish that Marbury had a right to his commission in the first place in order for Chief Justice Marshall to make his more wide-ranging decision.

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