Health care is a large sector of Columbia's economy, with nearly one in six people working in a health-care related profession and a physician density that is about three times the United States average.

Lederman began his Ph. D research working with Columbia's Nevis synchro-cyclotron, which was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world at that time.

In 1947, RCA-Victor developed and released the first 45 rpm record to the public, to compete with CBS / Columbia's 33⅓ rpm " LP ".

* Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former U. S. vice president Al Gore, and member of the British Columbia's Climate Action Team

Columbia's open classrooms, interfaith centers, and the then-novel idea of a health maintenance organization ( HMO ) with a group practice of medical doctors ( the Columbia Medical Plan ) sprung from these meetings.

Columbia's nine " village centers " provide residents with nearby shopping as well, often including supermarkets, gas stations, liquor stores, dry cleaners, restaurants, and hair salons.

The primary landforms in Columbia are rolling hills and stream valleys ; Columbia's road network is laid out to follow the terrain, with many winding streets and cul-de-sacs.

In March 2008, the Chemainus First Nation proposed renaming the strait the " Salish Sea ", an idea that reportedly met with approval by British Columbia's Aboriginal Relations Minister Mike de Jong, who pledged to put it before the B. C.

He moved to New York, where he later became a professor of film at Columbia University and co-chair ( with his former teacher František Daniel ) of Columbia's film department.

Composed by George Duning and Steve Allen ( although Allen's lyrics were not used in the film ), the song is featured in the famous dance scene between Holden and Novak, wherein Columbia's musical director Morris Stoloff blended " Theme From Picnic " with the 1930s standard " Moonglow ".

Perkins was also united in 1969 by Columbia's Murray Krugman with a " rockabilly " group based in New York's Hudson Valley, the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet.

The UPA animators applied their stylistic concepts and storytelling to Columbia's characters The Fox and the Crow with the shorts Robin Hoodlum ( 1948 ) and The Magic Fluke ( 1949 ), both directed by Hubley.

Due to Columbia's proximity to the Outer Banks, land and property value have increased dramatically since 2000 and with that the local demographics have also changed.

When the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company ( including Columbia's subsidiary label Parlophone ) in 1931, the new Anglo-American group was incorporated as Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. At this point RCA had a majority shareholding in the new company, giving RCA chair David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board.

In the 1930s, Columbia's major contract stars were Jean Arthur and Cary Grant ( who was shared with RKO Pictures ).

In an industry rife with nepotism, Columbia's was particularly notorious.

From 1971 until the end of 1987, Columbia's international distribution operations were a joint venture with Warner Bros., and in some countries, this joint venture also distributed films from other companies ( like EMI Films and Cannon Films in the UK ).

The superhero has since become Columbia's most successful franchise, with the first movie coming out in 2002 and having since since gained two sequels, with plans for two more.

From 1935 to 1945, Lord directed some of Columbia's fastest and funniest two-reelers and is credited with developing the unique comic style of the Three Stooges.

Upset with Columbia's promotion department, Springsteen said the decision to label him as the " future of rock was a very big mistake and I would like to strangle the guy who thought that up.

The next two years were dominated by budgetary and policy battles between Barry and the Control Board — along with Chief Financial Officer Anthony A. Williams — for power over the District of Columbia's operation.

Her next film, The Loves of Carmen ( 1948 ), again with Glenn Ford, was the first film co-produced by Columbia and Hayworth's own production company, The Beckworth Corporation ( named for her and Orson's daughter Rebecca ); it was Columbia's biggest moneymaker for that year.

By the time she returned to the screen for Fire Down Below ( 1957 ) with Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak had become Columbia's top female star.

He had invested heavily in her before she began a reckless affair with the married Aly Khan, and it could have caused a backlash against her career and Columbia's success.

Katzman contributed greatly to Columbia's success by producing dozens of topical feature films, including crime dramas, science-fiction stories, and rock -' n '- roll musicals.

Whereas Columbia's Twist Around the Clock, made just three years earlier, had cost a mere $ 280, 000, now Katzman was forced to deal with a budget that was nearly 10 times that amount.

Boas had planned for Ruth Benedict to succeed him as chair of Columbia's anthropology department, but she was sidelined by Ralph Linton, and Mead was limited to her offices at the AMNH.

In the 2005 – 06 academic year, the Columbia Military Society, Columbia's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates, was renamed the Hamilton Society for " students who aspire to serve their nation through the military in the tradition of Alexander Hamilton ".

The first was Columbia's proposed gymnasium in neighboring Morningside Park ; this was seen by the protesters to be an act of aggression aimed at the black residents of neighboring Harlem.

The Varsity Show is an annual musical written by and for students and was established in 1894, making it one of Columbia's oldest traditions.

Despite its strong Australian showing, and having an American producer ( Peter McIan ), Business as Usual was twice rejected by Columbia's parent company in the United States.

The board determined that the probable cause of the accident was that the foam impact caused a breach of a reinforced carbon-carbon panel along the leading edge of Columbia's left wing, allowing hot gases generated during re-entry to enter the wing and cause structural collapse.

Due to Columbia's heavier weight, it was less ideal for NASA to use it for missions to the International Space Station, though modifications were made to the Shuttle during its last refit in case the spacecraft was needed for such tasks.

The work was performed during Columbia's first retrofitting and the post-Challenger stand-down.

Another unique external feature, termed the " SILTS " pod, was located on the top of Columbia's tailfin, and was installed after STS-9 to acquire infrared and other thermal data.

* the southeastern Alaska Panhandle was leased from the Russian Empire, from 1839 to 1867, until the lease was ignored by both the Russians and Americans and, subsequently, by the Canadian and the British imperial governments, despite British Columbia's protests.

The cancellation was confirmed in 1995 by the federal government's " war on the deficit " and British Columbia's subsequent highway capital spending freeze.

Columbia Pictures | Columbia's That Certain Thing ( 1928 ) was made for less than $ 20, 000.

Columbia's Frank Price read the screenplay and was deeply interested, but the studio was hesitant about its commercial value, so Jewison offered to do the film for a $ 5 million budget and no salary.

There, he discovered that Columbia's journalism program was a graduate program, not an undergraduate one.

The curriculum was influenced by best practices established at Columbia's Teachers College, alma mater of six of Salisbury Normal School's eight original faculty.