Aon was created in 1982, when the Ryan Insurance Group ( founded by Pat Ryan in the 1960s ) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America ( founded by W. Clement Stone in 1919 ).

It was consolidated with other purchases as the Combined Insurance Co. of America in 1947.

Combined with the advent and eventual success of the ubiquitous personal computer, the term CPU is now applied almost exclusively to microprocessors.

Combined with lacking economic opportunities in the rural areas of former Krajina, the return process is highly troubled.

Combined modality chemotherapy is the use of drugs with other cancer treatments, such as radiation therapy or surgery.

Says Hahnel, " Combined with a more democratic political system, and redone to closer approximate a best case version, centrally planned economies no doubt would have performed better.

Combined with wide transparency, this results in the clear, colorless appearance of most natural diamonds.

Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill, ( although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India and Pakistan ), and on 27 October 1941 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations and received promotion to commodore.

Combined with Decree No. 91-337, it regulates disclosure, although the decree also applies to any person who provides to another person a corporate name, trademark or trade name or other business arrangements.

Efficiencies can be as high as 65 % when the fuel cell is paired with a turbine, and 85 % if heat is captured and used in a Combined Heat and Power ( CHP ) system.

The US Marines in Vietnam also saw some success with this method, under its CAP ( Combined Action Program ) where Marines were teamed as both trainers and " stiffeners " of local elements on the ground.

: Combined with Shaka's " buffalo horns " attack formation for surrounding and annihilating enemy forces, the Zulu combination of iklwa and shield -- similar to the Roman legionaries ' use of gladius and scutum -- was devastating.

Combined with the possibility to store the players ' progress, the floppy disk format enabled the developers to create a longer game with a more extensive game world.

Combined with calculus, linear algebra facilitates the solution of linear systems of differential equations.

Combined with the cards ' 8-bit audio, this resulted in a sound described as " artificial " and " primitive ".

Combined with stellar hitting of Ryan Braun, Aramis Ramirez, Corey Hart, and Jonathan Lucroy, the Brewers, from August 16 to September 23, won 26 of 35 games, and as of September 24, only 2 1 / 2 games out of the second Wild Card spot, with a 79-73 record.

Combined with a series of natural disasters, this led to the North Korean famine, which lasted from 1994 to 1998 and killed an estimated 800, 000 to 3, 500, 000 people.

Combined with thin or damaged soils this causes low fertility.

Combined with the wider audience made possible by recording, this led to a renewed focus on particular conductors and on a high standard of orchestral execution.

Combined with poor weather, this meant that 56 of the boats sank before reaching the designated scuttling areas and those which did were generally sunk by gunfire rather than explosive charges.

Combined with the attention he received from his contract, Smith continued to be a national figure.

Combined with the decrease in slick magazine fiction markets, writers attempting to support themselves by creating fiction switched to novels and book-length anthologies of shorter pieces.

Combined with the effects of the American law suits, this meant the activity died out in Bermuda until a brief resurgence during the American War of 1812.

Meanwhile, the planters were feeling the effects of lower sugar prices and wanted the Combined Court to provide the necessary funds for new drainage and irrigation programs.

Combined arms is an approach to warfare which seeks to integrate different branches of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects ( for example, using infantry and armor in an urban environment, where one supports the other, or both support each other ).

Combined with scale model special effects, characters are presented as marionette puppets in a filming technique that the Andersons dubbed " Supermarionation ", a technology that incorporated internal solenoid motors as a means of producing mouth movements synchronised with pre-recorded dialogue.

Combined with the mortgage interest deduction and the regressive effects of state taxation, it produces closer to a flat-tax effect.

Combined with the effects of the strong British currency, Rover was losing money, and recovering lost ground with the facelifted car and its coupe sister was not deemed possible, and Rover Cars announced its withdrawal from the North American market in August 1991.

* Chen, W. et al., Combined effects of endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphism ( G894T ) and insulin resistance status on blood pressure and familial risk of hypertension in young adults: the Bogalusa Heart Study.

The road up Castle Hill was closed to traffic on 12 March 1942 to enable the construction of the above-ground Green Street Bunker near Sidney Street, West End Unconfirmed reports indicate approval was given for the construction of an underground Area Combined Headquarters in Castle Hill in 1943. Ammunition magazine, situated below road up Castle Hill

Combined with stress and overwork, and possibly the heart defect that led him to be invalided out of the coal mines, he was to suffer a massive heart attack in the early hours of 8 November 1968 at the age of 42, after a show, whilst driving back to his hotel outside Leeds.

Ashdown describes as " a Whitehall cock-up of major proportions " the fact that there was a duplicate and simultaneous mission to sink the ships in Bordeaux, led by Claude de Baissac of Special Operations Executive, which Hasler's team and Combined Operations knew nothing about because of SOE's policy of secrecy even from other parts of the British Forces ; de Baissac was preparing to take explosives onto the ships when he heard the explosions of Hasler's limpet mines.

The original purpose of the building was to store weapons, such as mines, and the structure was designated the Combined Torpedo Storehouse and Cable Tanks building.

Combined with the acid mine drainage from abandoned silver / lead mines that sit within the catchment ( the area around Aberystwyth contains 38 of the 50 worst polluting metal mines in Wales ), the river regularly broke EEC pollution limits ( as of 1991 ) for heavy-metal contamination such as zinc.

Despite this setback, suggestions were made that the rockets, mines and torpedoes be used against the Combined French and Spanish Fleet in Cádiz.

Combined production of the company's four mines totaled 30 million carats ( 6, 000 kg ), nearly a quarter of the world's annual production of around 130 million carats ( 26, 000 kg ).

Citing the experience of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War 2,, Eden said that all would have been confusion and disarray without them.

Combined, roller hockey is played in nearly 60 countries worldwide, being Benfica the only club to practice it without interruption.

According to James Meecham, an analyst at the Combined Intelligence Center who attended the party: " I had no conception Tet was coming, absolutely zero ... Of the 200-odd officers present, not one I talked to knew Tet was coming, without exception.

In a 1976 lawsuit against the magazine's publisher, Combined Registry Company, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that copyright had been forfeited because the poem had been authorized for publication without a copyright notice in the 1940s – and that the poem is therefore in the public domain.

Combined with its low silhouette, the Archer made an excellent ambush weapon, allowing its crew to fire off a few shots, then drive away without wasting time turning around.

Combined with preset or user-defined input parameters, the filter can be applied to the original pixel data without modifying it, thereby providing non-destructive image editing.

Combined with the use of ordinary paper ( without water-marks ) for printing of this bank-note, this led to the appearance of a great number of counterfeit bank-notes in circulation.

Combined with windy conditions, the impact may be considerably detrimental even without rain or snow.

Williams contested the Combined English Universities in 1918 and Wednesbury in 1922 and 1923 without success.

Their speciality was a machine called a Combined Opener and Scutcher that was very effective in the cleaning of most types of cotton without damaging the staple or losing serviceable fibre.

Service on the Main Line segment between Glenside and Center City is given a special combined public timetable known as the Glenside Combined, allowing riders to see the schedules of all trains on the Main Line without having to look at multiple schedules.