According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, plastics units now account for more than 50% of all sign sales.

According to Atanasoff's account, several key principles of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer were conceived in a sudden insight after a long nighttime drive during the winter of 1937 – 38.

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

According to an account Smith published in 1624, he was going to be put to death until the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, saved him.

According to this account, Athanasius composed it during his exile in Rome, and presented it to Pope Julius I as a witness to his orthodoxy.

According to Epiphanius's account of the Ebionites, the group believed that Jesus was chosen because of his sinless devotion to the will of God.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

According to textual scholars, this is really the Jahwist's account of the reunion after Joseph identifies himself, and the account of the threat to enslave Benjamin is just the Elohist's version of the same event, with the Elohist being more terse about Joseph's emotions towards Benjamin, merely mentioning that Benjamin was given five times as many gifts as the others.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

According to his account, some three thousand villagers had traveled to Manzanillo to greet the Spanish with loaves, fishes and other foodstuffs and were " without provocation, butchered ".

According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were " most certainly cannibals ", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight ; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body ".

According to this account, Qi decided to sabotage Lu's reforms by sending 100 good horses and 80 beautiful dancing girls to the Duke of Lu.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change deforestation, mainly in tropical areas, could account for up to one-third of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

According to Chalmers, a naturalistic account of property dualism requires a new fundamental category of properties described by new laws of supervenience ; the challenge being analogous to that of understanding electricity based on the mechanistic and Newtonian models of materialism prior to Maxwell's equations.

According to Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.

According to Allen's account he was outraged, and left his visitors with veiled threats, indicating that attempts to enforce the judgment would be met with resistance.

According to another prisoner's account, Allen wandered off after learning of his son's death.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

According to his own account, each day he would walk in front of the hospital in which Giulio died until he was inured to the pain.

According to this account, Emperor Senka died in 539 at the age of 73 ; and succession passed to the third son of Emperor Keitai.

According to its account Suizei was the younger son of Jimmu's chief wife, Isukeyorihime.

According to Kitabatake Chikafusa's 14th century account, Mototsune resolved the problem of succession by simply going to visit Tokiyatsu-shinnō, where the kampaku addressed the prince as a sovereign and assigned imperial guards.

According to data provided by TFI to researcher Bill Bainbridge, from 1974 until 1987, members had sexual contact with 223, 989 people while practicing Flirty Fishing.

According to Steven Levy, IBM Watson researchers discovered differential cryptanalytic attacks in 1974 and were asked by the NSA to keep the technique secret.

According to Laurence Silberman, appointed Deputy Attorney General in early 1974, FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley thought such files either did not exist or had been destroyed.

According to the international definition adopted by the XIV Congress of the International Naturist Federation ( Agde, France, 1974 ), naturism is:

According to official Residents lore, there was internal turmoil which resulted in a large, " embarrassing " food fight ; they decided to resolve this tension in 1974 by recording what would later become Not Available – representative of N. Senada's Theory of Obscurity taken to its logical conclusion.

According to one legal style manual, a sample citation would be " Privacy Act of 1974, ( 2006 )", read aloud as " Title five, United States Code, section five fifty-two A " or simply " five USC five fifty-two A.

According to the U. S. Department of Labor, the Vietnam Era Veterans ' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 ( VEVRAA ) states, " A Vietnam era veteran is a person who

According to a 1974 interview with another eyewitness, Toscanini's words were: " Qui termina la rappresentazione perché a questo punto il maestro è morto " (" Here the performance finishes because at this point the maestro died ") and the English translation of this interview seems to say " Here the Maestro finished ".

According to William Lane ( 1974 ), an " unbroken tradition " identifies Mark the Evangelist with John Mark, and John Mark as the cousin of Barnabas.

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According to the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, the band also owed Atlantic Records one more album from the five album deal that created Swan Song Records in 1974.

According to the 1974 edition, the idea of using the paper clip to denote resistance originated in France.

According to Christopher Finch in The Art of Walt Disney ( Abrams, 1974 ), Disney credited animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard.

According to the Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward book All the President's Men ( 1974 ), Liddy did this once at a dinner party.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, it went on to sell 25 million copies, returning to the US and UK charts several times between 1955 and 1974.

According to the New Republic's Franklin Foer, " He masterminded Michael Dukakis's gubernatorial campaign in 1974 ; worked as executive director of the Democratic National Committee in the Jimmy Carter era ; managed the 1980 Democratic convention in New York ; and subsequently worked as chief scheduler for Carter's reelection campaign.

According to the critics, the appointment of this and successive governments consisting of aisle-crossers instead of the proclamation of new elections, caused a constitutional crisis and political instability that lasted for more than two years and led to the dictatorship of 1967 – 1974.

According to an article in Forbes, as of 1974, the State of California was still seeking to enjoin the company from making fraudulent claims, and practicing medicine without a license.

According to the professor in sociology Stephen A. Kent at the University of Alberta and Kranenborg ( 1974 ), one of the reasons why in 1970s young people including hippies turned to gurus was because they found that drugs had opened for them the existence of the transcendental or because they wanted to get high without drugs.

According to Rudolf Schröck, author of Das Doppelleben des Charles A. Lindbergh ( Heyne Verlag, 2005 ), from 1957 until his death in 1974, Charles had an affair with Brigitte Hesshaimer, a Bavarian woman 24 years his junior, that produced three children, whom he supported financially.

In 1974, the duo released two more albums including the Grammy-nominated The Gospel According to Ike & Tina and the pop release, Rhode Island Red, which included one of their final chart placements, " Sexy Ida ( Pt.

According to Allan Bloom's 1974 obituary in Political Theory, Strauss " was raised as an Orthodox Jew ," but the family does not appear to have completely embraced Orthodox practice.

According to Lewontin ( 1974 ), the theoretical task for population genetics is a process in two spaces: a " genotypic space " and a " phenotypic space ".

According to Abagnale, his father did not necessarily want him, but to reunite his family, he would attempt to win his mother back until his father's death in 1974.