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is and technically
What can be done for the `` individual contributor '' who is extremely important -- and likely to be more so -- in the operation of the technically oriented company??
Another factor that may hold hope is for parallel recognition is, as one man says it: `` that the fad for educating top people along managerial lines is yielding to the technically trained approach ''.
Just as exciting but in a more technically proficient way is Laura Stuart, whose complete control of her every movement is lovely to watch.
Although " android " is used almost universally to refer to both sexes, and those of no particular sex, " android " technically refers to the male form, while " gynoid " is the feminine form.
The latter quote has provided some controversy because it is technically speaking of wisdom.
In her opinion, President Barack Obama, who is the son of a Kenyan immigrant, although technically African-American, is not black.
The northern triangle of Times Square is technically Duffy Square, dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's " Fighting 69th " Infantry Regiment ; a memorial to Duffy is located there, along with a statue of George M. Cohan.
More technically, the law is concerned with the speedup achievable from an improvement to a computation that affects a proportion P of that computation where the improvement has a speedup of S. ( For example, if an improvement can speed up 30 % of the computation, P will be 0. 3 ; if the improvement makes the portion affected twice as fast, S will be 2.
Though technically incorrect, it does resolve the problem of which electrode is the anode in a secondary ( or rechargeable ) cell.
( Expressed more technically, in each case the pair ( m, n ) decreases in the lexicographic order on pairs, which is a well-ordering, just like the ordering of single non-negative integers ; this means one cannot go down in the ordering infinitely many times in succession.
: We have never called alcoholism a disease because, technically speaking, it is not a disease entity.
The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.
It is also technically the easiest to steal, as it is farthest from home plate and thus a longer throw from the catcher is required to prevent it.
This is because a virtual LAN ( or VLAN ) is technically a broadcast domain.
Mead is also not technically brewed, as the honey is used entirely, as opposed to being steeped in water.

is and part
The dancer who never loosens her hold on a parasol, begins to feel that it is part of herself.
And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.
This confession serves to make clear in part what is behind this sexual revolution: the craving for sensation for its own sake, the need for change, for new experiences.
The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.
A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;
Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.
This is in large part a code of behavior and a glossary of values: what is it that people do and should do and how one should regard it.
This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.
The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.
And it may be well to recall that to say `` conformity '' is, in part, another way of saying `` orderly human society ''.
Even in its present form, however, the first part of Malraux's unrecoverable novel is among the greatest works of mid-twentieth century literature ; ;
`` and the more the action claims to be total, the smaller is the part of man engaged ''.
The New York mind is two parts abstraction and one part misinformation about the rest of the country and in fact the world.
More important is the simple human point that all men suffer, and that it is a kind of anthropological-religious pride on the part of the Jew to believe that his suffering is more poignant than mine or anyone else's.
That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

is and blót
* In Germanic paganism and Germanic neopaganism, a blót is a sacrifice to the gods or other beings
The events of Yule are generally held to have centered around Midwinter ( although specific dating is a matter of debate ), and feasting, drinking, and sacrifice ( blót ) were involved.
Firstly, a sacrificial festival ( blót ) honouring them, the dísablót, is mentioned in one version of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs and in Víga-Glúms saga, Egils saga and the Heimskringla.
Sophus Bugge suggested in 1879 that flamen is from an older * flădmen and related to the Germanic blót.
The blót element of horse sacrifice is found throughout Indo-European traditions, including the Indian, Celtic, and Latin traditions.
The word blót ( Icelandic and Faroese: blót ) is the Old Norse & Old English representative of the Proto-Germanic ( PGmc ) noun * ƀlōtan " sacrifice, worship ".
Freyr was the most important god at the Midwinter and autumn blót, and Christmas ham ( the pig was for Freyr ) is still a main Christmas course in parts of Scandinavia.
The arduous trail up the " tower " is marked with orange signsTrollkyrka (" Troll's church ") is a secluded butte-like rock in the heart of the National Park of Tiveden, Sweden, which served as a pagan sacrificial ground ( horgr, see also blót ) for centuries after Christianity became the dominant religion in Scandinavia.
Besides the blót, key among the ritual structures of Wotanism is the sumbel, a drinking-ritual in which a drinking horn full of mead or ale is passed around and a series of toasts are made, first to the Aesir, then to other supernatural beings, then to heroes or ancestors, and then to others.
It is probably from the fourteenth century but takes place in 1029 when Scandinavia was still largely pagan, and it appears to preserve traditions of a pagan phallos cult, the vǫlsi ( see also blót ).
The central ritual is the communal blót feast but the priests ( goðar ) also conduct name-giving ceremonies, coming of age rituals, weddings and funerals.
The central ritual performed by Ásatrúarfélagið is the communal blót feast.
Offerings during a blót usually involve mead or other alcohol, sometimes food, sometimes song or poetry, specially written for the occasion or for a particular deity, is delivered as an offering.
Usual dress for a blót is whatever suits the seasons — many blóts are outdoors, sometimes at sacred sites.

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