By age 8, those who were signing as babies scored an average of twelve points higher on the WISC-III IQ test.

By August 1954 Malenkov's role as de facto head of government was over ; Nikolai Bulganin began signing Council of Ministers decrees ( a right beholden to the Chairman ) and the Presidium gave in to Khrushchev's wishes to replace Malenkov.

By signing into law the Tariff of 1828, quite unpopular in parts of the south, he further antagonized the Jacksonians.

By November 1936, a revival of interest in a German-Japanese pact in both Tokyo and Berlin led to the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact in Berlin.

* 1909 – By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.

By 1992, with the signing of the Schengen Treaty which formalized aspects of police information exchange across the territory of the European Union, there were worries that much, if not all, of this intelligence sharing was opaque, raising questions about the efficacy of the accountability mechanisms governing police information sharing in Europe ( Joubert and Bevers, 1996 ).

By signing the Oslo accords, the Palestine Liberation Organization recognize Israel's right to exist, while Israel permitted the creation of an autonomous Palestinian National Authority consisting of the Gaza Strip and West Bank which was implemented in 1994.

" By signing a 10-year ( contract ) with the Teamsters ( and with over 30 other unions representing city employees ), the current administration and City Council unduly hamstrung not only the current management of city government, but the next six years of management as well, a period that extends well beyond the elected terms of the incoming administration and City Council ," according to a March 2011 report from the Office of the Inspector General of the City of Chicago.

By the late 19th century the Catholic tradition cited the signing in the " Maison des Tourelles ", home of prosperous Spanish trader André Ruiz ; it was destroyed by bombing in World War II.

By signing this act on August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt became the first president to advocate federal assistance for the elderly.

By 1919 Earhart prepared to enter Smith College but changed her mind and enrolled at Columbia University signing up for a course in medical studies among other programs.

By the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 it is estimated from tax records that about 300 people resided in Springfield.

By signing the military appendix to the original agreement Bulgaria aimed to use the Serbian army to seize most of Macedonia while concentrating her own army for the operations against Thrace with its major cities of Adrianople and Constantinople.

" By March 1959, Billboard noted that the popularity of the film and of Mandel's and Mulligan's albums " prompted a rush of jazz film scores ", and cited the signing of Duke Ellington to do the score for that year's Anatomy of a Murder, the release of The Five Pennies ( a biopic about the jazz band leader Red Nichols ), and a 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day,.

By the time the Force M. D. s got a record deal, signing with Tommy Boy Records in 1984, the group had already developed into a pure quiet storm / contemporary R & B group, with its top-ten R & B hit " Tears " from the Love Letters album.

By the 1940s, college football conferences began signing contracts that tied their championship team to a particular bowl.

By July 1972, Bhutto had recovered 93, 000 prisoners of war and 5, 000 square miles of Indian-held territory after signing the Simla Agreement.

By signing the LCA, the employer attests that:

By contrast, in an unblinded signature scheme the signer would typically use a padding scheme ( e. g. by instead signing the result of a Cryptographic hash function applied to the message, instead of signing the message itself ), however since the signer does not know the actual message, any padding scheme would produce an incorrect value when unblinded.

By signing the document, Truman provided a clearly defined and coherent US policy that did not really exist previously.

By signing the Covenant of Partnership World Vision US, like all other national members of the World Vision Partnership, also subscribes to the Core Values, the Mission Statement, and the Statement of Faith of World Vision.

By signing the Honor Code, Wells students pledge " not to lie, cheat, steal, deceive, or conceal in the conduct of their collegiate life ".

By signing for Sydney FC, Yorke opted to continue his career in Australia for less money than might have been available in some other leagues, notably those in the Middle East.

By 1971, they had not only become the biggest act on the island, they were also ( thanks to signing a recording contract with Chris Blackwell's Island Records ) international stars.

`` By one fell swoop the Court now finds that Congress indulged in needless legislation in the acts of 1910, 1913, 1925, 1934 and 1937.

By the time of Pope Martin V their signature was made essential to the validity of the acts of the chancery ; and they obtained in course of time many important privileges.

By chemotactic selection we can determine whether a still uncharacterized molecule acts via the long-or the short-term receptor pathway.

By the mid-1970s, they had become one of the biggest-selling acts in music.

By 1975, punk was being used to describe acts as diverse as the Patti Smith Group, the Bay City Rollers, and Bruce Springsteen.

By 1996, genre acts such as Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake were being signed to major labels.

By his middle period, sexual freedom and the elimination of sexual jealousy were a major theme of Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), in which the progressively minded but sexually conservative reporter, Ben Caxton, acts as a dramatic foil for the less parochial characters, Jubal Harshaw and Valentine Michael Smith ( Mike ).

By 1954, as rock and roll was beginning to emerge, a number of similar acts began to cross over from the R & B charts to mainstream success, often with added honking brass and saxophone, with The Crows, The Penguins, The El Dorados and The Turbans all scoring major hits.

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

* By contrast, cellular slime molds spend most of their lives as individual unicellular protists, but when a chemical signal is secreted, they assemble into a cluster that acts as one organism.

By extension the term self-determination has come to mean the free choice of one's own acts without external compulsion.

By that definition, a state capitalist country is one where the government controls the economy and essentially acts like a single huge corporation, extracting the surplus value from the workforce in order to invest it in further production.

By the end of 1854, Wagner had sketched out all three acts of an opera on the Tristan theme, based on Gottfried von Strassburg's telling of the story.

By the 1950s, touring striptease acts were used to attract audiences to the dying music halls.

" By this, he included " mundane " acts of change as well as ritual magic.

By the ' 90s, even the solo success of members Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford was being held against the group, by then one of the best-known rock acts in the world.

By the 1990s, fewer bands were using synthesizers, and even former purely electronic acts such as Depeche Mode began using traditional acoustic instruments alongside the electronic instruments.

By 17 April 1948 the situation in Palestine had deteriorated further and the Security Council adopted Resolution 46 ( 1948 ), calling upon all persons and organizations in Palestine to immediately cease all military activities, as well as acts of violence, terrorism and sabotage ; to refrain from any actions endangering the safety of the Holy Places in Palestine and refrain from importing or acquiring or assisting or encouraging the importation or acquisition of weapons and war materials ( arms embargo ).

By acts of sabotage and assassination in both metropolitan France and French Algerian territories, the OAS attempted to prevent Algerian independence.

By the Catholic position that one's attitudes are acts of will, sinful attitudes are voluntary.

By Royal Decree are appointed secretaries of state ( Article 46 ); these are subordinate to a certain minister who is fully responsible for their acts ( Subarticle 2 ).

By the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the success of Christian-inspired acts like Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Decyfer Down, Underoath, Kutless, Disciple and Relient K saw a shift toward mainstream exposure in the Christian rock scene.

By 1865 there was a huge dancing platform, a rebuilt theatre, high-wire acts, pantomime, music hall and the original Siamese twins.

By the end of 1982, these acts had been joined in the charts by synth-based singles from Thomas Dolby, Blancmange, and Tears for Fears.

By now, he has mostly retired from the Mafia, leaving the Corleone family's criminal interests in the hands of enforcer Joey Zasa ( Joe Mantegna ), and is using his tremendous wealth and power to restore his reputation via numerous acts of charity.