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He had no interest in politics, finding it impossible to involve himself with any ideals other than the expressions of his own concepts through his own particular medium, but he was averse to fanaticism and hypocrisy.
After Hurt's renditions of " Frankie " and " Spike Driver Blues " were included in The Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952, and an Australian man discovered a copy of " Avalon Blues ", there became increased interest in finding Hurt himself.
Napoleon Bonaparte's interest in finding the remnants of an ancient waterway passage culminated in a cadre of archaeologists, scientists, cartographers and engineers scouring the area beginning in the latter months of 1798.
In 1978, he ran a true exploratory campaign, finding little public or media interest.
French interest in the New World began with Francis I of France, who in 1524 sponsored Giovanni da Verrazzano to navigate the region between Florida and Newfoundland in hopes of finding a route to the Pacific Ocean.
This finding permitted the Territory government to acquire land subject to Native Title, effectively extinguishing the Native Title interest in the land.
Rule of 72: The " Rule of 72 " is a " quick and dirty " method for finding out how fast money doubles for a given interest rate.
The renewed interest in the band ensured a younger audience from this point on, with many of their longtime followers remaining loyal despite a fair number of older fans finding the current albums of this period far more lightweight in content.
In the Victorian age there was a renewed interest in the idea of courtly love, or the finding of spiritual fulfillment in the purest form of romantic love.
At the same time he pursued his interest in archaeology both academically and through fieldwork, finding his vocation as a landscape archaeologist.
Recent interest in scale-free networks started in 1999 with work by Albert-László Barabási and colleagues at the University of Notre Dame who mapped the topology of a portion of the World Wide Web, finding that some nodes, which they called " hubs ", had many more connections than others and that the network as a whole had a power-law distribution of the number of links connecting to a node.
This, coupled with the growing use of open source frameworks and products in core commercial development, has, for many developers, rekindled interest in finding a silver bullet RAD methodology.
The novel has attracted the attention of scholars, including Jay Clayton, who explores the book's attitude toward hacking, as well as its treatment of Babbage and Ada Lovelace ; Herbert Sussman, who demonstrates how the book rewrites Benjamin Disraeli's novel Sybil ; and Brian McHale, who relates it to the postmodern interest in finding a " new way of ' doing ' history in fiction.
As such, main-sequence systems are of particular interest to science due to the prospect of finding true analogs to the Solar System, along with true Earth analogs and therefore possibly Earth-like complex or even intelligent life.
Pickover's primary interest is in finding new ways to expand creativity by melding art, science, mathematics, and other seemingly disparate areas of human endeavor.
The Council for some years did not accept this politically embarrassing finding, and instead maintained that the charity " owed " the Council £ 30m, charged compound interest on what it termed a " debt " ( which eventually rose to a claim of some £ 60m ), and to recoup it tried to offer the whole palace for sale-a policy their successors are still trying to carry out despite being stalled in the High Court in 2007.
On 1 April 2011 his appeal was upheld and the amount of repayment reduced to £ 1, 178. 43 ( which Caplin had overclaimed due to interest rate fluctuations of which he was unaware ); Caplin accepted the finding and agreed to repay the money.
Propositional Horn clauses are also of interest in computational complexity, where the problem of finding truth value assignments to make a conjunction of propositional Horn clauses true is a P-complete problem ( in fact solvable in linear time ), sometimes called HORNSAT.
Having previously expressed an interest in the post, Lytton accepted, finding himself " once more back in his old profession ".
In contrast, Havok and his longtime love interest Polaris have had a love / hate relationship with the team, often finding themselves roped into it.
Birge's interest in statistics led him to the investigation of parapsychology in which he conducted many experiments without finding any conclusive results.
During this period he was able to exercise his great interest in horse riding, gaining a reputation for his skill ( and success ) in point-to-point races and during fox hunting, particularly for finding suitable places to cross rivers, which earned him the nickname " Otter ".
< p > In so far as this matter can be publicly discussed, it can be properly assumed that no wise Sovereign — that is, one who has at heart the true interest of the country, the constitution, and the Monarchy — would deny a dissolution to his Prime Minister unless he were satisfied that: ( 1 ) the existing Parliament was still vital, viable, and capable of doing its job ; ( 2 ) a General Election would be detrimental to the national economy ; ( 3 ) he could rely on finding another Prime Minister who could carry on his Government, for a reasonable period, with a working majority in the House of Commons.
However, as his main interest in archaeology was finding ancient cities, he had little interest in performing thorough excavations.

interest and relationship
By and large, what happens to business as a whole will govern the relationship between demand and supply conditions in the capital markets and will thus determine interest rates.
Lincoln's first romantic interest was Ann Rutledge, whom he met when he first moved to New Salem ; by 1835, they were in a relationship but not formally engaged.
The relationship between the massive carpet bombing of Cambodia by the United States and the growth of the Khmer Rouge, in terms of recruitment and popular support, has been a matter of interest to historians.
Derivatives are broadly categorized by the relationship between the underlying asset and the derivative ( such as forward, option, swap ); the type of underlying asset ( such as equity derivatives, foreign exchange derivatives, interest rate derivatives, commodity derivatives, or credit derivatives ); the market in which they trade ( such as exchange-traded or over-the-counter ); and their pay-off profile.
It was of particular interest that Eusebius was nearly persecuted because of his close relationship to the Emperor Licinius while serving as Bishop of Nicomedia during Licinius ' reign.
The increased interest in alternative medicine at the end of the twentieth century has given rise to a parallel interest among sociologists in the relationship of religion to health.
Flirting or coquetry is a sexual activity involving verbal or written communication as well as body language by one person to another, suggesting an interest in a deeper relationship with the other person.
Flirting usually involves speaking and behaving in a way that suggests a mildly greater intimacy than the actual relationship between the parties would justify, though within the rules of social etiquette, which generally disapproves of a direct expression of sexual interest.
Flirting can indicate an interest in a deeper personal relationship with another person.
It would be difficult to find an area of scientific interest more beset by divided professional opinion and contradictory experimental evidence … No one can say whether hypnosis is a qualitatively unique state with some physiological and conditioned response components or only a form of suggestion induced by high motivation and a positive relationship between hypnotist and subject … T. X.
Hence, research and clinical practice inspired by their interpretation has led to growing interest in the relationship between hypnotherapy and CBT.
There is interest in the relationship between vitamin D and pain, but the evidence so far from controlled trials for such a relationship, other than in osteomalacia, is unconvincing.
He eventually developed strong feelings for Counselor Deanna Troi, and explored a relationship with her for a time, which at times strained his relationship with her former romantic interest, Commander Riker.
During the twentieth century the relationship between science and spirituality has been influenced both by Freudian psychology, which has accentuated the boundaries between the two areas by accentuating individualism and secularism, and by developments in particle physics, which reopened the debate about complementarity between scientific and religious discourse and rekindled for many an interest in holistic conceptions of reality.
Thailand's foreign policy includes support for ASEAN – in the interest of regional stability-and emphasizes a close and longstanding security relationship with the United States.
The book's subject is Amos's interest in mythology and religion, exploring her songwriting process, rise to fame, and her relationship with Atlantic Records.
Ukraine also has a close relationship with NATO and has declared interest in eventual membership.
From the 1990s, interest in a relationship between the Uralic and Altaic families has been revived in the context of the Eurasiatic hypothesis.
In such situations one may need to develop two versions of the business plan: a stripped down plan that can be used to develop a relationship and a detail plan that is only shown when investors have sufficient interest and trust to sign an NDA.
The maxima occur at angles θ < sub > m </ sub >, which satisfy the relationship dsinθ < sub > m </ sub >/ λ =| m | where θ < sub > m </ sub > is the angle between the diffracted ray and the grating's normal vector, and d is the distance from the center of one slit to the center of the adjacent slit, and m is an integer representing the propagation-mode of interest.
The relationship between George S. Patton and Dwight Eisenhower has long been of interest to historians in that the onset of World War II completely reversed the roles of the two men in the space of just under two years.

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