Today, Columbia has a highly diversified economy, and is often ranked high for its business atmosphere.

The prolonged worldwide boom, beginning in the late 1940s and lasting until the first oil crisis in 1973, was a challenge that Finland met and from which it emerged with a highly sophisticated and diversified economy, including a new occupational structure.

The modern, private enterprise economy of Belgium has capitalised on its central geographic location, highly developed transport network, and diversified industrial and commercial base.

Gastropoda ( previously known as univalves and sometimes spelled Gasteropoda ) are a major part of the phylum Mollusca and are the most highly diversified class in the phylum, with 60, 000 to 80, 000 living snail and slug species.

Loews Corporation by this time was a holding company owned by brothers Robert and Laurence Tisch highly diversified in non-entertainment business interests ranging from hotels to insurance.

As a result of these efforts, Ukraine became highly diversified in energy consumption.

Under Brown ’ s leadership the college's enrollment has grown and diversified, admission is now highly selective, while further expansion of the school ’ s academic offerings have continued.

In 1964 Corgi diversified into the adult collector market and released a range of highly detailed models of vintage cars called ' Corgi Classics '.

" However, agriculture is now highly diversified, wheat is still the main crop, but production of oats, rape, and lupine has increased significantly and fruit and flower growing are also emerging.

Warburg Pincus is a growth investor and its active portfolio of more than 125 companies is highly diversified by stage, sector and geography.

At the time of discovery of Brazil ( 1500 ), Serra do Mar supported a rich and highly diversified ecosystem, composed mainly by a lush tropical rain forest, called Atlantic Forest ( Mata Atlântica ).

Chicago industries became highly diversified during the nineteenth century.

It has undoubtedly been this highly diversified element within her boundaries that has so often made Muzaffarpur the birthplace of geniuses.

The economy of Texas has continued to grow rapidly, becoming the second largest state in population in 1994, and became economically highly diversified, with a growing base in high technology.

This is understandable as Rank themselves were at one point a highly diversified conglomerate, and were apt to rename acquired or joint venture business by prefixing them with the name " Rank ", e. g. Rank Xerox.

He is best known for his work on the theory of optimum currency areas, in which he argued that groups of countries with diversified domestic production are more likely to constitute optimum currency areas than groups whose members are highly specialized.

The Bantu-speaking society was highly a decentralized feudal society organized on a basis of kraals ( an enlarged clan ), headed by a chief, who owed a very hazy allegiance to the nation's head chief.

The origins of the building society as an institution lie in late-18th century Birmingham – a town which was undergoing rapid economic and physical expansion driven by a multiplicity of small metalworking firms, whose many highly skilled and prosperous owners readily invested in property.

By 1973, Chilean society had grown highly polarized, between strong opponents and equally strong supporters of Salvador Allende and his government.

In " The Human Zoo ", Morris postulates that human society has moved from small scattered tribes to highly compressed urban civilization and that this trend has placed growing psychological and sociological pressure on humans which leads to both a greater chance for mankind to understand himself but also leads to irrational and unnatural human behavior which can manifest itself into severe psychological problems.

Mahmud Tarzi, a highly educated, well-traveled poet and journalist, founded an Afghan nationalist newspaper with Habibullah's agreement, and until 1919 he used the newspaper as a platform for rebutting clerical criticism of Western-influenced changes in government and society, for espousing full Afghan independence, and for other reforms.

This highly literate society places strong emphasis upon education, which is free and compulsory until age 16.

Personal and highly idiosyncratic visions of society, Fellini's films are a unique combination of memory, dreams, fantasy and desire.

The Geiger counter is probably the best-known radiation instrument by society due to its wide and highly visible use as a hand held radiation survey instrument.

The midwives of San Pedro have many roles in the society, and are respected highly for them.

As the loss of a human being inflicts enormous grief upon the individuals close to the victim, as well as the fact that the commission of a murder is highly detrimental to the good order within society, most societies both present and in antiquity have considered it a most serious crime worthy of the harshest of punishment.

In terms of health, diabetes, cancer and hypertension all present serious problems in contemporary society, due to a highly Westernized diet.

The Pakistan Army is the best organized group in the country and is highly respected in civil society and the social ranks as an institution.

Traditional conflict of law rules were widely perceived as too rigid and unresponsive to the needs of a highly mobile society undergoing the Second Industrial Revolution.

Sociologists Noël A. Cazenave and Darlene Alvarez Maddern define racism as “... a highly organized system of ' race '- based group privilege that operates at every level of society and is held together by a sophisticated ideology of color /' race ' supremacy.

Menzies is regarded highly in Prime Ministerial opinion polls and is very highly regarded in Australian society for his tenures as Prime Minister.

It is a highly respected job in the Japanese society, with tōji being regarded like musicians or painters.

The subsequent economic depression, coupled with the rootlessness enabled by access to online data and strong social pressure to be flexible ( the results of corporations wanting highly mobile workforces without strong local ties ), results in a fragmentation of society along religious, ethnic and a variety of class markers, what Toffler calls " subcults ", including what would in 2010 be described as " gangs.

Its importance in today's society rests on its ability to be mass produced using a highly automated process ( semiconductor device fabrication ) that achieves astonishingly low per-transistor costs.

Korean society became highly centralized under Korean Confucianism and martial arts were poorly regarded in a society whose ideals were epitomized by its scholar-kings.

When the union with Sweden was dissolved in 1905, the university became important for producing highly educated men and women who could serve as experts in a society which placed increasing emphasis on ensuring that all its citizens enjoy a life of dignity and security.

In the simpler societies, people are connected to others due to personal ties and traditions ; in the larger, modern society they are connected due to increased reliance on others with regard to them performing their specialized tasks needed for the modern, highly complex society to survive.

Whereas the usual organic surface-active agent is strongly sorbed at oil - water interfaces, the highly charged ions are most strongly sorbed at interfaces between water and insoluble materials exhibiting an ionic structure ( see Table 26-2 on p. 1678 ).

As in the Ninth Symphony, the vocal forces sing a theme first played instrumentally, and this theme is highly reminiscent of the corresponding theme in the Ninth Symphony ( for a detailed comparison, see Choral Fantasy ).

Sugarcane, rapeseed, soy are some of the plants with a highly fermentable sugar or oil content which have recently been put to use as sources of biofuels, which are important alternatives to fossil fuels ( see biodiesel ).

Ballpoint pens are often provided free by businesses as a form of advertising — printed with a company's name ; a ballpoint pen is a relatively low cost advertisement that is highly effective ( customers will use, and therefore see, a pen daily ).

At about the same time the Romans began to recruit foreign auxiliary cavalry from among Gauls, Iberians, and Numidians, the last being highly valued as mounted skirmishers and scouts ( see Numidian cavalry ).

Although Christians generally believe their religion to be very inclusive ( since not only Jews but all gentiles can be Christian ), Jews see Christianity as highly exclusive, because some denominations view non-Christians ( such as Jews and Pagans ) as having an incomplete or imperfect relationship with God, and therefore excluded from grace, salvation, heaven, or eternal life.

This highly publicized tournament included hula hoops as holes, published, rules, hole lengths, pars, penalties, Wham-O prizes and, an event in which Fred Morrison, the Frisbee inventor was in attendance ( see article published in the fall issue of Discgolfer Magazine " Disc Golf's Unknown Pioneer " www. omagdigital. com / display_article. php? id = 835174 ).

While the conceptual and external levels design can usually be done independently of any DBMS ( DBMS-independent design software packages exist, possibly with interfaces to some specific popular DBMSs ), the internal level design highly relies on the capabilities and internal data structure of the specific DBMS utilized ( see the Implementation section below ).

This experimental fact is highly reproducible, and the mathematics of quantum mechanics ( see below ) allows us to predict the exact probability of an electron striking the screen at any particular point.

In addition to optical fiber lasers, a large variety of medical applications ( i. e. dermatology, dentistry ) utilize the erbium ion's 2940 nm emission ( see Er: YAG laser ), which is highly absorbed in water in tissues, making its effect very superficial.

In the United Kingdom, Herbert Read was influenced highly by egoism as he later approached existentialism ( see existentialist anarchism ).

The highly decentralized and democratic nature of the proposed De Leonist government is in contrast to the democratic centralism of Marxism – Leninism and what they see as the dictatorial nature of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China and other " communist " states.

The free element ( metal ) is not found naturally on Earth, as it is highly reactive ( though once produced, it is coated in a thin layer of oxide ( see passivation ), which partly masks this reactivity ).

There are many electronically activated devices that have approval from the US FDA to permit MRI procedures in patients under highly specific MRI conditions ( see www. MRIsafety. com ).

Necessarily this is an approximation, and highly accurate descriptions of the molecular electronic wave function do not have orbitals ( see configuration interaction ).

While very efficient, the need for powerful instruction sets with multi-step addressing and complex operations ( see below ) made such " hard-wired " processors difficult to design and debug ; highly encoded and varied-length instructions can contribute to this as well, especially when very irregular encodings are used.

In many cases gang members graduate from youth gangs to highly developed OC groups, with some already in contact with such syndicates and through this we see a greater propensity for imitation.

The brachiopatagium (" arm membrane ") was the primary component of the wing, stretching from the highly elongated fourth finger of the hand to the hind limbs ( though where exactly on the hind limbs it anchored is controversial and may have varied between species, see below ).

Quinine is very sensitive to ultraviolet light ( UV ) and will fluoresce in direct sunlight, due to its highly conjugated resonance structure ( see Quinoline ).

The early modern writers did not see the republican model as universally applicable ; most thought that it could be successful only in very small and highly urbanized city-states.

Since the mid-1980s, through the " Đổi Mới " reform period, Vietnam has made a shift from a highly centralized planned economy to a socialist-oriented market economy which use both directive and indicative planning ( see Five-Year Plans of Vietnam ).

Many bakers see the starter method as a compromise between the highly reliable results of baker's yeast and the flavor and complexity of a longer fermentation.

Used fuel contains the highly radioactive products of fission ( see high level waste below ).

Furthermore, the arguments which Good and Maher used to criticize Nicod's criterion ( see Good's Baby, above ) relied on this fact-that " All ravens are black " is highly probable when it is highly probable that there are no ravens.