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future and quantitative
This is a quantitative way of showing that money in the future is not as valuable as money in the present ($ 150, 000 in 3 years isn't worth the same as $ 150, 000 now ; it is worth $ 129, 576 now ).
Continuing work on masses and form factors of hadrons and their weak matrix elements are promising candidates for future quantitative tests.
The hero, Nick Haflinger, is a runaway from Tarnover, a government program intended to find, educate and indoctrinate highly gifted children to further the interests of the state in a future where quantitative analysis backed by the tacit threat of coercion has replaced overt military and economic power as the deciding factor in international competition.
These methods began to allow prediction of the past and future behavior of landscapes from present observations, and were later to develop into what the modern trend of a highly quantitative approach to geomorphic problems.
In this sense, the sunk cost is not a precise quantity, but an economic term for a sum paid, in the past, which is no longer relevant to decisions about the future ; it may be used inconsistently in quantitative terms as the original cost or the expected economic loss.
However, the Supreme Court ordered that the student be admitted to the white law school on the grounds that the separate school failed to qualify as being " equal ," both because of quantitative differences in facilities and intangible factors, such as its isolation from most of the future lawyers with whom its graduates would interact.
In 1834, Faraday discovered the quantitative connection between corrosion weight loss and electric current and thus laid the foundation for the future application of cathodic protection.
The experimental section, which can be either a verbal, quantitative, or analytical writing task, contains new questions ETS is considering for future use.
The Supreme Court reversed the lower court decision, saying that the separate school failed to qualify, both because of quantitative differences in facilities and intangible factors, such as its isolation from most of the future lawyers with whom its graduates would interact.

future and demand
There are two reasons why failure to come to grips with this demand could be fatal to the future of the Catholic university.
Especially the dynamic economic development in emerging countries such as China, India, Russia or Brazil will cause a rising demand for adhesives in the future.
During times of low demand, excess power can be stored in batteries for future use.
Those who plan capital investment must anticipate future trends in consumer demand if they are to avoid investing too much in some lines of production and too little in other lines of production.
With soaring demand and limited production of grapes, Champagne houses say the rising price could produce a consumer backlash that would harm the industry for years into the future.
However, as the labor market becomes more specialized and economies demand higher levels of skill, governments and businesses are increasingly investing in the future of vocational education through publicly funded training organizations and subsidized apprenticeship or traineeship initiatives for businesses.
Also, because of a drop in demand, future orders for guns would be supplied from Woolwich, leaving Elswick without new business.
Some industries, like the renewable energy industry and solar photovoltaic technology in particular, are being proactive in setting up recycling policies even before there is considerable volume to their waste streams, anticipating future demand during their rapid growth.
In more recent times this approach has been caricatured as " predict and provide " – to predict future transport demand and provide the network for it, usually by building more roads.
Supply chain management in military logistics often deals with a number of variables in predicting cost, deterioration, consumption, and future demand.
However, after he " ran out of money ", Norman negotiated to write songs on demand for Capitol and was paid $ 80 per month subsistence advanced against future earnings, for his work polishing and refining songs for H. R.
The ground breaking ceremony for Kuala Lumpur International Airport ( KLIA ) took place on 1 November 1991 when the government decided that the existing Kuala Lumpur International Airport, officially then known as Subang International Airport ( now Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport ) could not handle future demand.
Companies need to control the types and quantities of materials they purchase, plan which products are to be produced and in what quantities and ensure that they are able to meet current and future customer demand, all at the lowest possible cost.
After analyzing the existing capitalistic growth-development theoretical apparatus, he introduces the new model which integrates the variables of freedom, democracy and human rights into the existing models and argue that any future economic growth-development of any nation depends on this emerging model as we witness the third wave of unfolding demand for democracy in the Middle East.
* Income elasticity of demand can be used as an indicator of industry health, future consumption patterns and as a guide to firms investment decisions.
In the near future 8 more windturbines will be built to support the demand for electricity.
The scope of inventory management concerns the fine lines between replenishment lead time, carrying costs of inventory, asset management, inventory forecasting, inventory valuation, inventory visibility, future inventory price forecasting, physical inventory, available physical space for inventory, quality management, replenishment, returns and defective goods, and demand forecasting.
The scope of inventory management also concerns the fine lines between replenishment lead time, carrying costs of inventory, asset management, inventory forecasting, inventory valuation, inventory visibility, future inventory price forecasting, physical inventory, available physical space for inventory, quality management, replenishment, returns and defective goods and demand forecasting.
Accurate demand forecasting also allows the desired inventory proportions to be dynamic by determining expected sales out into the future ; this allows for inventory to be in proportion to expected short-term sales or consumption rather than to past averages, a much more accurate and optimal outcome.
The ratio may not be able to reflect the usability of future production demand, as well as customer demand.
A similar study by U. S. News & World Report in 2006 included actuaries among the 25 Best Professions that it expects will be in great demand in the future ( Nemko 2006 ).
For example, a retailer is unable to accurately predict consumer demand for any particular hour more than a few days into the future and a producer is unable to predict the precise time that they will have plant outage or shortages of fuel.
Likewise, firms are assumed to choose hiring, investment, and output on the basis of productivity and demand over the foreseeable future, instead of considering these quantities at just one point in time.

future and will
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
Ptolemy's problem is to forecast where, against the inverted bowl of night, some particular light will be found at future times.
What policies if adopted and applied in various circumstances will increase the likelihood that future events will coincide with desired events and do so at least cost in terms of all human values??
On the narrower ground of poetic form, he felt that in the drama of the future the Greek conception of tragic fate should be joined to the Shakespearean vision of tragic will.
Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.
The promise that the lion and the lamb will lie down together was given in the future tense.
It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.
Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.
But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in the immediate future.
The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.
It has already been reported in your newspapers that the East Greenwich School Committee is considering additions to at least one elementary school and to the high school to insure future accommodations for a school population that we know will increase.
Will our bombs be cleaner or will their fallout be less harmful to future generations of children??
We now have to think not only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake.
And so, let us remember on this day not only to thank the Almighty Who gave hope and courage to the Pilgrims, but also to place our trust in Him that He will continue to protect us in the future as He has in the past.
An alert dean will confer all through the year on personnel needs, plans for the future, qualifications of those on the job, and bright prospects elsewhere.
Some day, many years in the future, true spacecraft will be able to find and destroy mobile targets.
At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world.
By recognizing and helping Juniors get interested in the dog world, all will be helping to create future dog owners.
I will be able to tell you more about this string of equines in the near future.
With the growing complexity of markets and intensity of competition, sales management, whether at the district, region or headquarters level, is a tough job today -- and it will be tougher in the future.

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