Five of these vessels carry supplies for the US Marine Corps sufficient to support a Marine Air-Ground Task Force for 30 days: USNS Button, USNS Kocak, USNS Lopez, USNS Stockham, and USNS Fisher.

Often starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and drawing on Universal's precedent, these films include The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1957 ), and Dracula ( 1958 ), both followed by many sequels, with director Terence Fisher being responsible for many of the best films.

This theory is in contrast to Fisher ’ s theory that male sexual traits, such as the peacock ’ s train, are the result of selection for attractive traits because these traits are considered attractive.

General Lemay was informed by a senior staff member, Colonel William P. Fisher, that bomber pilots were turning back from these low altitude bombing runs due to heavy anti-aircraft fire from Japanese defense forces.

Fisher submitted two proposals ; the first of these became The Creature from the Pit while the other, The Gamble with Time, concerned a plot to rig the casinos in Las Vegas to finance time travel experiments.

In Fisher ’ s model these are described by two potentially offsetting movements:

That these spectacles had attracted 15, 000 paying customers ( and crowds of up to 40, 000 ) persuaded principal owner Carl G. Fisher to spend US $ 155, 000 on repaving the track with 3. 2 million bricks ; he also added a concrete wall around the track's circumference.

With no overlap between these groups, these percentages add to 24. 1 %, or " One in Four " ( Fisher, Cullen & Turner, 2006 ).

Six Feet Under introduces the Fisher family as the basis on which to explore these questions.

Fisher is primarily celebrated as an innovator, strategist and developer of the navy rather than a seagoing admiral involved in major battles, although in his career he experienced all these things.

In these situations, conflict resolvers often talk about finding the win-win solution, or mutually satisfying scenario, for everyone involved ( see Fisher and Ury ( 1981 ), Getting to Yes ).

Henry was angered by these moves and on 22 June 1535 Fisher was beheaded on Tower Green.

Thiele introduced the cumulants and ( in Danish ) the likelihood function ; these contributions were not credited to Thiele by Ronald A. Fisher, who nevertheless named Thiele to his ( short ) list of the greatest statisticians of all time on the strength of Thiele's other contributions.

Frank Fisher, another MIT economist who was Schmalensee's former thesis advisor, also testified in these trials, but in favor of the Department of Justice that was prosecuting Microsoft.

He turns on these too, as Henry turned on Wolsey, Fisher, More and Cromwell.

While these indices were introduced to provide overall measurement of relative prices, there is ultimately no way of measuring the imperfections of any of these indices ( Paasche, Laspeyres, Fisher, or Marshall – Edgeworth ) against reality.

The cast for these included Claire Buckfield, Isla Fisher, Hilary O ' Neil, Peter Baldwin and Rene Zagger.

Then he used these theorems to give rigorous proofs of theorems proven by Fisher and Hotelling related to Fisher's maximum likelihood estimator for estimating a parameter of a distribution.

According to Fisher, a company must qualify on most of these 15 points to be considered a worthwhile investment:

Fisher stated that getting a precise handle on a company's cost analysis is difficult, but an investor can discern which companies are exceptionally deficient -- these are the companies to avoid.

Will Rogers remembered Fisher as a Florida pioneer with these wry words:

Through these operations, Fisher provided financial and operational support for a huge number of fledgling think-tanks, most of which would not exist without his influence.

Robin Fisher notes that Vancouver's " relationships with aboriginal groups were generally peaceful ; indeed, his detailed survey would not have been possible if they had been hostile.

For Chrétien a grail was a wide, somewhat deep dish or bowl, interesting because it contained not a pike, salmon or lamprey, as the audience may have expected for such a container, but a single Mass wafer which provided sustenance for the Fisher King ’ s crippled father.

His book The Amazing Book of Mazes ( 2006 ) contains examples and photographs of numerous methods of maze construction, several of which have been pioneered by Fisher ; The Art of the Maze ( Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1990 ) contains a substantial history of the subject, whilst Mazes and Labyrinths ( Shire Publications, 2004 ) is a useful introduction to the subject.

An often-cited theory published by R. A. Fisher in 1930 that attempts to resolve the paradox posits that such traits are the results of explosive positive feedback loops that have as their starting points particular sexual preferences for features that confer a survival advantage and thus " become established in the species.

Mr. Wilson and his family have been long-time supporters of St. John Fisher College.

He is also known to have ' cheated ' on his experiments, removing outliers and generally ' tidying ' datasets-statistics, and repeating the experiments, shows that his results were just ' too perfect ', a point first noted by the Godfather of statistics, RA Fisher, in 1936: http :// www. cs. brown. edu / courses / csci1950-l / presentations / REVISED -- AFCB % 202007 % 20Course % 20Fisher % 20and % 20Mendel. ppt

Some historians such as Andrew Fisher believe Wallace must have had some earlier military experience ; campaigns like Edward I of England's wars in Wales provided a good opportunity for a younger son of a landholder, with no other prospects in life than becoming a monk or priest, to become a mercenary soldier.

Fisher Athletic were a local team interested in moving to the Dome, but they were considered to have too small a fan base to make this feasible.

Johnson, Tunis and Reeves have never publicly discussed their time with Eastwood, while Fisher said of their relationship " If the other person is not willing to grow and work on it, you can't do it by yourself.

In practice, we might not have the distribution function but the Fisher – Tippett – Gnedenko theorem provides the following asymptotic result

Alan Peters and Peter Fisher ( Associate Professors, Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Iowa ) have estimated that state and local governments provide $ 40 – 50 billion annually in economic development incentives, which critics characterize as corporate welfare.

According to Louis Fisher in The Politics of Shared Power, Ronald Reagan said to Congress in his 1986 State of the Union address, " Tonight I ask you to give me what forty-three governors have: Give me a line-item veto this year.

Fisher seems to have had close contacts with his extended family all his life.

Their imprisonment, however, must have lasted a few months only for in February 1531, Convocation met, and Fisher was present.

As Tony Sloman wrote in 1999, " As the varied likes of David Lean, Robert Wise, Terence Fisher and Dorothy Arzner have proved, the cutting rooms are easily the finest grounding for film direction.

Several scholars have noted similarities between Brân the Blessed and the Arthurian character the Fisher King, the keeper of the Holy Grail.

Gosset was a modest man who cut short an admirer with the comment that “ Fisher would have discovered it all anyway .”

This house is now owned by the Fisher family who have resided there for many years and, subsequently, own much of the land in the surrounding area, including four houses in the town itself.

" I have done a good deal of skying ", Constable wrote to Fisher on 23 October 1821 ; " I am determined to conquer all difficulties, and that most arduous one among the rest ".

According to postal regulations, the community was too near to Cooks Corners to have a separate office, but on his application for the office, Fisher had given section 32 as the location, just far enough to qualify for an office ( even though it was over a mile away from the community.

She is also known to have played it as an encore during a concert in Avery Fisher Hall.

Shortly before the crash, economist Irving Fisher famously proclaimed, " Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

There have been nine female drivers to qualify: Janet Guthrie, Lyn St. James, Sarah Fisher, Danica Patrick, Milka Duno, Ana " Bia " Beatriz, Simona de Silvestro, Pippa Mann, and Katherine Legge.

At least two different books about the Major League Baseball club known as the " Dodgers " have used this character's name as a play-on-words for their titles: The Artful Dodgers, edited by Tom Meany ; and The Artful Dodger, by Tommy Lasorda with David Fisher.

The group would have many personnel changes, but their line-up for their first three albums was Brooker ( piano and lead vocals ), Trower ( guitar and lead vocals ), Fisher ( organ and lead vocals ), Knights ( bass ), Wilson ( drums ), and Reid ( lyricist ).