Diversification from traditional flue cured tobacco to include burley tobacco and other modes of agriculture is underway.

Diversification of the economy into non-hydrocarbon industries remain a long-term issue.

Diversification in the early 1990s saw the rise of information technology, led by call centres which made use of the city's bilingual workforce.

* Diversification: While this may hedge a company against a downturn in an individual industry it fails to deliver value, since it is possible for individual shareholders to achieve the same hedge by diversifying their portfolios at a much lower cost than those associated with a merger.

Diversification is still a long-term issue for this over-exposed economy.

* Diversification results in a reduction of investment risk.

Diversification refers to the number of different securities in a fund.

Diversification came with a shareholding in L ' Oréal in 1974.

Diversification and biogeography of Juniperus ( Cupressaceae ): variable diversification rates and multiple intercontinental dispersals.

Others believe that Swadesh proposed early linkages, but believed that languages diverged immediately among peoples, as he expressed in his major, but unfinished work, The Origin and Diversification of Language ( 1971 ), published posthumously.

* Ericson, Per G. P .; Anderson, Cajsa L .; Britton, Tom ; Elżanowski, Andrzej ; Johansson, Ulf S .; Kallersjö, Mari ; Ohlson, Jan I .; Parsons, Thomas J .; Zuccon, Dario & Mayr, Gerald ( 2006 ): Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils.

Diversification of tanagers, a species rich bird group, largely follows lowlands to montane regions of South America.

* Portfolio Diversification benefits of Investing in Stamps by Chris Veld, University of Stirling.

* Diversification: Lenders to a small number of borrowers ( or kinds of borrower ) face a high degree of unsystematic credit risk, called concentration risk.

Diversification into new lines of business began in the 1920s.

* Diversification ( new markets, new products ): Mohen A. S, Bion Products, Selectron Ltd, bk

Mapping this theory to business yields these familiar conditions: Entrepreneurship, Success and Growth, Diversification.

* Defence Diversification Agency, an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence.

Related regional development posts include Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Minister of Western Economic Diversification.

He was a member of Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal government, serving in cabinet as Canada's tenth Minister of Western Economic Diversification and as Minister of State for Sport.

He was appointed to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's cabinet on January 15, 2002, serving as Secretary of State for both Western Economic Diversification and Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

He was named Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State for Sport on July 20, 2004.

* Western Economic Diversification Canada.

Eschatology is an ancient branch of study in Christian theology, presumably starting with the Olivet discourse, The Sheep and the Goats, and other discourses of end times by Jesus, with the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ first touched on by Paul of Tarsus and Ignatius of Antioch ( c. 35 – 107 AD ), then given more consideration by the Christian apologist, Justin Martyr ( c. 100 – 165 ).

Links were either butted together meaning that the ends touched each other and were not riveted, or the kusari was constructed with links where the wire was turned or twisted two or more times, these split links are similar to the modern split ring commonly used on keychains.

On punts and field goal attempts ( but not kickoffs ), members of the kicking team, other than the kicker and any teammates who are onside ( behind the kicker at the time of the kick ), may not approach within five yards of the ball until it has been touched by the receiving team.

Euripides and other playwrights accordingly composed more and more arias for accomplished actors to sing and this tendency becomes more marked in his later plays: tragedy was a " living and ever-changing genre " ( other changes in his work are touched on in the previous section and in Chronology ; a list of his plays is given in Extant plays below ).

On the other hand, he retained their traits of good manners, articulateness, punctuality, modesty, and a dislike of being touched.

Forty days ' penance was demanded of nuns who " rode " each other or were discovered to have touched each other's breasts.

There are a number of other receptor types that are called quickly-adapting or phasic receptors, where firing decreases or stops with steady stimulus ; examples include: skin when touched by an object causes the neurons to fire, but if the object maintains even pressure against the skin, the neurons stop firing.

The film touched on some of Factory's other artists, including Happy Mondays and The Durutti Column.

The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas which sense the position of the player's hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude ( volume ) with the other, so it can be played without being touched.

The French philosopher Montaigne wrote of a dance he saw in 1580 in Augsburg, where the dancers held each other so closely that their faces touched.

There does not seem much probability in the conjecture that the monks and other ecclesiastics succeeded in suppressing that portion of the work in which the evil influences of their body were to be more especially touched upon.

In the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey, the citizens of Caralis were the first to declare in favor of the former, an example soon followed by the other cities of Sardinia ; and Caesar himself touched there with his fleet on his return from Africa.

These debates cause great problems for recognition of Jewish marriages, conversions, and other life decisions that are touched by Jewish law.

At one time, the lips of the two women almost touched, so that one singer used the mouth cavity of the other as a resonator, but this is less common in present day.

Mange mites ( Trixacarus caviae ) are a common cause of hair loss, and other symptoms may also include excessive scratching, unusually aggressive behavior when touched ( due to pain ), and, in some instances, seizures.

When Pippin touched the stone, without intent to spy, Sauron, looking the other way with voyeuristic intent thought he saw the hobbit who had the One Ring, misdirecting him from the true infiltration of Frodo, then hundreds of miles away.

Cartagena de Indias is rarely touched by the hurricanes that decimate other Caribbean capitals like Havana, Santo Domingo, Kingston or San Juan.

For example, research from a field experiment found that male and female shoppers who were accidentally touched from behind by other shoppers left a store earlier than people who had not been touched and evaluated brands more negatively, resulting in the Accidental Interpersonal Touch effect.

# The letters, words, and paragraphs had to be counted, and the document became invalid if two letters touched each other.

Fingerprints collected at a crime scene, or on items of evidence from a crime, have been used in forensic science to identify suspects, victims and other persons who touched a surface.

Four other men then touched her with war clubs.

A tornado has never been spotted in Westport, although they have touched down in other parts of Massachusetts.

The series continued after her death: Alf, left alone after the other mourners have gone home, gently touched the handle of her ( now empty ) wheelchair and sobbed " Silly old moo!