On November 25, 2008, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced a temporary freeze on acquisition of new trade division titles, allegedly in response to the economic crisis of 2008.

Most Protea species can be placed in one of two broad groups according to their response to fire: reseeders are killed by fire, but fire also triggers the release of their canopy seed bank, thus promoting recruitment of the next generation ; resprouters survive fire, resprouting from a lignotuber or, more rarely, epicormic buds protected by thick bark.

Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB.

In 1998, presumably as a response to the 1993 construction of a tower in Paris, Tennessee, the city placed a giant red cowboy hat atop the tower.

In response to the sceptical position that we only know the appearances presented by our senses, and not the world as it is, Plotinus placed the object of knowledge inside the soul itself, and accounted for this interior truth through the soul's kinship with its own productive principles.

This was part of a response to an Aboriginal Stolen Generations inquiry, which found widespread suffering had taken place amongst Australian Aboriginal children forcibly placed into the care of white parents in a little-publicised state government scheme.

Benjamin Franklin had put forth the idea of such a meeting the year before but was unable to convince the colonies of its necessity until the British placed a blockade at the Port of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

# initiate immediate response to demands that are placed on the system,

When placed in an unprecedented situation, a rhetor can draw on antecedent genres of similar situations in order to guide their response.

* Features requiring faster response than can be guaranteed can often be placed in hardware.

Despite stating this was a response to consumer demand to improve taste and texture, there was no " new improved recipe " claim placed on New Zealand labels.

* Implantable insulin pump – A small device placed inside of the body which delivers insulin in response to commands from a hand-held device called a programmer.

For binaural listening though, the headphones need to have a flat response to the ear-canal entrance ( not the eardrum ) since it is at the ear-canal entrance that the recording microphones are placed.

In response, the ADHS launched an environmental review of air, drinking water and soil in the Sierra Vista area to determine if environmental exposure had placed residents at greater risk of childhood leukemia or other cancers.

" First to use the term in a biological context, Selye continued to define stress as " the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed upon it.

The calls were made by ringing up unsuspecting recipients, or in response to classified advertisements placed in local New York-based newspapers.

One method used to obtain the HRTF from a given source location is therefore to measure the head-related impulse response ( HRIR ), h ( t ), at the ear drum for the impulse Δ ( t ) placed at the source.

The Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Commuter Railroad placed more officers on trains and increased the visibility of police in response to the shootings.

In early 2009, Susan Schwab, outgoing US Trade Representative, announced a 300 % tariff on the cheese, apparently the highest level by far of any in the package of tariffs placed on dozens of European luxury goods in response to a European ban on hormone treated US beef.

For a more detailed response, two additional electrodes can be placed 5 cm to the right and left of Oz.

ECG manifestations of left ventricular hypertrophy ( LVH ) are common in aortic stenosis and arise as a result of the stenosis having placed a chronically high pressure load on the left ventricle ( with LVH being the expected response to chronic pressure loads on the left ventricle no matter what the cause ).

In response to a demolition order placed on the building in which Otto Frank and his family had hidden during the war, he and Johannes Kleiman helped establish the Anne Frank Foundation on 3 May 1957, with the principal aim of saving and restoring the building, to allow it to be opened to the general public.

Law's official response took the form of an open letter published on 13 January 1913, in which Law offered a compromise that food duties would not be placed before Parliament to vote on until after a second, approving election took place.

To understand pathological criticism and pathological responses to criticism, it is often not sufficient to see the individuals concerned in isolation-they should be placed in the total context in which the criticism or the response to it occurs.

In the Roebers, Moga and Schneider ( 2001 ) experiment, the participants that were placed in the forced response group had the lowest overall accuracy.

In response to the rail industry, shippers, and political pressure, the STB placed a 15-month moratorium on all rail industry mergers, effectively scuttling CN-BNSF plans.

The cytokines trigger an inflammatory response, which draws large numbers of white blood cells to the area and increases the regional blood flow.

His remaining secular works in this late period fall into three categories: first, large scale cantatas and one oratorio Habsburg written on patriotic themes or in response to the international political situation, pedagogical works written to aid his students in voice, and finally simple songs, rounds or canons written for home entertainment ; many with original poetry by the composer.

The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”

In response to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Reagan administration in the U. S. increased arming and funding of the Mujahideen thanks in large part to the efforts of Charlie Wilson and CIA officer Gust Avrakotos.

For users with many or large messages, this IMAP4 usage pattern can result in faster response times.

The neighboring cells, in response to interferon, produce large amounts of an enzyme known as protein kinase R ( PKR ).

He and Douglas both spoke to the large audience, Douglas first and Lincoln in response two hours later.

For a number of years French officials had been unsuccessful in dealing with the squalor of the growing Parisian slums, and Le Corbusier sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.

The Medieval Inquisition was in response to large popular movements throughout Europe considered apostate or heretical to Christianity, in particular Catharism and Waldensians in southern France and northern Italy.

On the savanna, unlike dangers such as large predators, snakes and spiders tend to be hidden from view until very close and may be a particular danger to infants and small children, favoring the development of an instinctive fearful response.

The council gave her the Greek title Theotokos ( literally " God-bearer ", or " Mother of God "), and the dedication of the large church in Rome is a response to that.

In companies that use large numbers of cubicles in a common space, employees sometimes use the term prairie dogging to refer to the action of several people simultaneously looking over the walls of their cubicles in response to a noise or other distraction.

An early famous example in popular culture is the return of Sherlock Holmes: writer Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the popular character in an encounter with his foe Professor Moriarty, only to bring Holmes back, due in large part to audience response.

According to Balakrishna the public sector companies in response to Sena's violent pressure, began employing Maharashtrians in large numbers, the company owners didn't object to the Sena entry in to trade unionism since " Thackeray ruled like a dictator, one phone call was enough to ensure peace on the shop floor.

In response, Persian Gulf Arab states have started to make strategic investments in the country, with Saudi Arabia building livestock export infrastructure and the United Arab Emirates purchasing large farmlands.

While there are other industrial-strength transaction processing systems, notably IBM's own CICS and IMS, TPF's raison d ' être is extreme volume, large numbers of concurrent users and very fast response times, for example VISA credit card transaction processing during the peak holiday shopping season.

The book was released and received with a large public response.

In response, navies operating large ships introduced smaller ships to counter the threat.

In response the DoS Chief Financial Officer observed that ' The Department operates in over 270 locations in 172 countries, while conducting business in 150 currencies and an even large number of languages ...

Due to the large oscillating signal non-linearity of the tube response caused frequency mixing, seen on the plate current ( output ) of such a " converter " circuit.

Contributing factors include the following: First, the first officer's predisposition to overreact to wake turbulence ; second, the training provided by American Airlines that could have encouraged pilots to make large flight control inputs ; third, the first officer likely did not understand an airplane's response to large rudder inputs at high airspeeds or the mechanism by which the rudder rolls a transport-category airplane ; finally, light rudder pedal forces and small pedal displacement of the A300-600 rudder pedal system increased the airplane's susceptibility to a rudder misuse.

The response was simple but effective: when a fellow member was arrested for speaking, large numbers of people descended on the location and invited the authorities to arrest all of them, until it became too expensive for the town.

A large advertising push by Taco Bell was begun in late February 2011 in response to a consumer protection lawsuit filed against the company by an Alabama law firm.

Following the Second World War, in response to the needs of large numbers of injured ex-service members and civilians, sport was introduced as a key part of rehabilitation.