The Katzenjammer Kids ( three brothers in the first strip but soon reduced to two ) featured Hans and Fritz, twins who rebelled against authority, particularly in the form of their mother, Mama ; der Captain, a shipwrecked sailor who acted as a surrogate father ; and der Inspector, an official from the school system.

* The official missing count at the World Trade Center is 4, 986, reduced from the earlier count of 5, 219 after duplicate entries on the lists compiled by police and the city family center were removed.

Schwartz was originally convicted on three felony counts, with one reduced to a misdemeanor, but on February 1, 2007 his arrest and conviction records were sealed through an official expungement and he is legally no longer a felon.

The phase of the purge trials ended with a series of amnesty laws passed between 1951 and 1953 which reduced the number of imprisoned collaborators from 40, 000 to 62, and was ensued by a period of official " repression " that lasted between 1954 and 1971.

Additionally, it is also spoken by a reduced number of people in Carche, a rural area in the Region of Murcia adjoining the Valencian Community ; nevertheless Valencian does not have any official recognition in this area.

With regards to issues of diversity ( bilingualism and multiculturalism ), the Conservatives tend to be more majoritarian, favouring a reduced scope for official bilingualism and a more assimilationist approach to immigrants and Native peoples.

Many of these gains came at the expense of the Bloc, which was reduced to a four-seat rump without official party status in Parliament.

Despite its status as an official language, Irish has been reduced to a minority language in Ireland as a result of English rule, as is the case in North and South America where various indigenous languages have been replaced by that of the colonists.

The Lord Chancellor's salary is higher than that of any other public official, including even the Prime Minister, although sometimes the officeholder may voluntarily decide to receive a reduced salary.

When, in the late 1960s, the standard working week in Finland was reduced to 40 hours by an act of Parliament, it also meant that all Saturdays became a sort of de facto public holidays, though not official ones.

By not following the devaluations of the U. S. currency in 1971 and 1973, the dinar rose to a value of US $ 3. 3778, before a 5 percent devaluation reduced the value of the dinar to US $ 3. 2169, a rate which remained until the Gulf War, although in late 1989, the black market rate was reported at five to six times higher ( 3 dinars for US $ 1 ) than the official rate.

" Despite its status as an official language, the Irish language has been reduced to a minority language in Ireland as a result of centuries of English rule, as is the case in North America where their indigenous languages have been replaced by that of the colonists.

The proletariat would lose all its hard-won independent position and be reduced once more to a mere appendage of official bourgeois democracy.

Today, the Virginia Pep Band operates in a much reduced role, after being eliminated from all official sporting events by the University's athletic department in 2003.

While German infantry divisions generally had a strength of 15, 000 – 17, 000 soldiers at the start of World War II, this had gradually been reduced to an official ( table of organization ) size of 12, 500, and by November 1944, the average actual strength of a Heer division was 8, 761 men.

Since then the official stadium capacity has been reduced to 60, 044.

As the senate — in law still retaining the highest constitutional position, since the republic was never formally ended — lost most of its political importance, being reduced almost to a rubber stamp as a single-party state's parliament usually is, they stepped in as an official alternative power to the throne, but real power could just as well lie mainly elsewhere, depending on the imperial favor and personal machinations

The Conservatives had reduced the size of the legislature, so provincial ridings now had the same boundaries as the federal ones, and so the official party status threshold was lowered.

This tax was based solely on revenues ( 5 % of net earnings from land, property, commerce, industry and from official offices ), and was meant to reach all citizens regardless of status, but the clergy, the regions with " pays d ' état " and the parlements protested ; the clergy won exemption, the " pays d ' état " won reduced rates, and the parlements halted new income statements, effectively making the " vingtième " a far less efficient tax than it was designed to be.

His assumption of power in 1981 influenced the course of Greek political history, ending an almost 50-year long system of power dominated by conservative forces ; the achievements of his successive governments include the official recognition of the Greek Resistance against the Axis, the establishment of the National Health System and the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection ( ASEP ), the passage of Law 1264 / 1982 which secured the right to strike and greatly improved the rights of workers, the constitutional amendment of 1985 – 1986 which strengthened parliamentarism and reduced the powers of the unelected President, the conduct of an assertive and independent Greek foreign policy, the expansion in the power of local governments, many progressive reforms in Greek Law, and granting permission to the refugees of the Greek Civil War to return home in Greece.

The official UCR ranks in Congress were reduced to 30 in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and 10 in the Argentine Senate.

" Despite its status as an official language, the Irish language has been reduced to a minority language in Ireland as a result of centuries of English rule, as is the case in North America where their indigenous languages have been replaced by that of the colonists.

The final official count however gave the seat to the incumbent, Reg Boorman of the Labour Party, by a margin of seven votes, although a Judicial Recount reduced this to only one vote.

The New Democratic Party, led by Jack Layton, won 103 seats to become the official opposition for the first time in party history, as a late-campaign surge of support in Quebec took them from one to 59 seats at the expense of the other parties, particularly the Bloc Québécois which saw their 47 seats in that province reduced to a rump of four seats.

In total, these increases in operating costs outweigh the savings that result from declining programs and from economy measures, such as reduced numbers of units and installations, smaller inventories of major equipment, and improvements in the supply and distribution systems of the Armed Forces.

Demand for parts for home entertainment was strong in the first half, but purchases were cut back to lower levels during the fall as set manufacturers reduced their own operating rates.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

This has the benefit of reducing friction and surface fatigue, together with reduced heat generation, operating noise and vibrations.

Young men were drawn in as new fighting forces while older men were reduced to domestic slaves and / or disposed off to Arab slave traders operating from the Lake Malawi regions.

The kernel's job was reduced from essentially being the operating system to maintaining the " utilities " and scheduling their access to hardware.

Outside major cities and ski resorts, tourist season typically begins Victoria Day continuing to Labour Day or Thanksgiving ; motels would be largely vacant ( operating at slightly reduced prices or occasionally closed ) for the winter, while campgrounds would be effectively unusable outside the high season.

The use of " motel " to identify any budget-priced roadhouse hotel ( Rasthaus, Raststätte ) also exists in the German language ; some French chains operating in Germany ( such as Accor's Hotel Formule 1 ) offer automated registration and small, spartan rooms at reduced cost.

The advent of semiconductor memory reduced this difference, but it was still apparent that more registers ( and later caches ) would allow higher CPU operating frequencies.

Eddy current losses can be reduced by making the core of a stack of plates electrically insulated from each other, rather than a solid block ; all transformers operating at low frequencies use laminated or similar cores.

The development of oxide-coated filaments in the mid-1920s reduced filament operating temperature to a dull red heat ( around 700 ° C ), which in turn reduced thermal distortion of the tube structure and allowed closer spacing of tube elements.

Between 2002 and 2006, SCI reduced its net debt ( total debt minus cash ) by more than $ 1. 0 billion, increased operating cash flow, and simplified its field management organization to enhance efficiency, performance, and accountability.

An additional benefit of the OS / 390 packaging concept was to improve reliability, availability and serviceability ( RAS ) for the operating system, as the number of different combinations of elements that a customer could order and run was drastically reduced.

This reduced the overall time required for customers to test and deploy the operating system in their environments, as well as reducing the number of customer reported problems ( PMRs ), errors ( APARs ) and fixes ( PTFs ) arising from the variances in element levels.

Another advantage of operating the DFA in the gain saturation region is that small fluctuations in the input signal power are reduced in the output amplified signal: smaller input signal powers experience larger ( less saturated ) gain, while larger input powers see less gain.

Loans to keep the company operating reduced its net assets to zero.

Starting with 1. 1 or 1. 2 this danger was reduced: if one changed disks without reading the new disk's directory, and tried to write to it, the operating system would signal a fatal error, avoiding overwriting but requiring a reboot ( which took no more than a few seconds, but implied losing whatever data you were trying to save ).

Some scammers are part of less organized gangs or are operating independently ; such scammers have reduced access to the above connections, and thus have little success with wealthier investors or business entities attempting to research them, but are still convincing to middle-class individuals and small businesses, and can bilk hundreds of thousands of dollars from such victims.

It cut operating costs by nearly $ 950 million a year, reduced its workforce by more than half, increased the generating capacity of its plants, stopped building nuclear plants, and developed a plan to meet the energy needs of the Tennessee Valley through the year 2020.

However, on July 1, 2011 in order to save energy and reduce operating costs the maximum speed of Chinese high-speed trains was reduced to 300 km / h, and the average speed of the fastest trains on the Wuhan-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway was reduced to, slower than the TGV.

The advantage of this arrangement is that the operating costs of the electronic currency system are greatly reduced by not having to resolve payment disputes.

For example, the Microsoft Windows splash screen, in versions prior to Windows Vista, appears while the machine is still operating in VGA mode, which is the reason that this screen always appears in reduced resolution and color depth.