Noting the rise of discount stores such as Wal-Mart, in the 1990s Unilever ( which acquired the brand in 1996 ) instituted a broad strategy, called " The Power of Value " to use its Suave brand to sell a line of discount personal care products in contrast to its high-profile brands such as Helene Curtis, Calvin Klein and Salon Selectives lines.

Noting the flaws perceived in the American system, the Fathers of Confederation opted to retain a monarchical form of government.

Noting that " Rand implies that a sinister conspiracy of purveyors of brotherhood has prevented its American publication until now ," they ironically concluded " One can only regret that the conspiracy finally broke down.

Noting that Ford, an African-American, did much better than Cohen in majority black precincts despite Ford's inexperience, Cohen said, " It is impossible for a person who is not African American to get a large vote in the African American community.

Noting the lack of institutional control and perceiving his departure as mistreatment of an African American coach, blue chip high school players from Baltimore City would largely avoid Maryland until Keith Booth chose to attend Maryland in 1993.

Noting the complaints of inventors and members of the patent bar, he admitted that some of the strictures `` were fairly well founded '', but he added that under existing rules the courts could not consolidate testimony in a group of suits involving separate infringements of the same patent.

Noting that not all frames can be compressed at the same level because quality is more severely impacted for scenes of high complexity some algorithms try to constantly adjust the BPP.

Noting that " the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long ", Tyrell explains that the reason Nexus-6 replicants do not live longer is not due to some sort of kill switch, but because they physically cannot — the result of the superhuman capabilities engineered into them.

Noting that power sets are complete lattices under inclusion, those functions between them arising from some relation R in this way are exactly the supremum-preserving maps.

" Noting that " the nagging, scolding Mama Bear is a pillar of pettiness and conventionality " who " seems to care more about how the Bears ' tree house looks than whether anyone is happy inside ", she wrote, " some viewers may find it a genuine relief when the cubs demolish Mama's favorite lamp.

Noting that Rawls himself acknowledged the failure of his theory of justice to comprehensively address these three frontiers, Nussbaum claims that Rawls's attempt to expand his theory to address one of these areas — transnational justice — is " ultimately unsatisfying " because he fails to follow through with the essential elements developed in A Theory of Justice, namely, by relaxing some of the key assumptions about the parties to the original contract.

Noting a rapid increase in the Latino participation in California elections, some analysts cite Governor Wilson's and the Republican Party's embrace of Proposition 187 as a cause of the failure of the party to win statewide elections.

Noting the large-scale Mexican immigration in the Southwest, Kennan in 2002 saw " unmistakable evidences of a growing differentiation between the cultures, respectively, of large southern and southwestern regions of this country, on the one hand ," and those of " some northern regions.

Noting this, as well as the fact that the armies never met, some Western scholars have questioned the authenticity of the details surrounding the event ; though in the Arab world it is widely held as historical.

Noting a rapid increase in the Latino participation in California elections, some analysts cite Governor Wilson's and the Republican Party's embrace of Proposition 187 as a cause of the failure of the party to win statewide elections.

" Noting also that some colorists were increasingly using computer effects " seemingly arbitrarily ," he decided " that if I didn't take control of the colouring process myself ... effects would eventually transform the covers into something not my own.

Noting that " Rydberg's conception of race is not equivalent with the modern term ; the meaning he gives the word is in fact more cultural than biological, ... he includes Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists living in Asia, America and to some extent Africa in this expression.

Noting the baby's arrival after 14 years of marriage, some observers wondered if Brinkley had taken his own goat gland treatment.

Noting the interest generated, he buys a lifeboat, hires some of the stranded mariners as rowers, and conducts tours of the picturesque wreck.

Noting that the film has " hints of heartfelt drama, flashes of compelling characters, echoes of true connection ," he felt some of the film's best moments came in its smaller scenes.

Noting the historic import of the agreement, David Ben-Gurion said in a 1952 Dr. Goldmann, “ For the first time in the history of the Jewish people, oppressed and plundered for hundreds of years … the oppressor and plunderer has had to hand back some of the spoil and pay collective compensation for part of the material losses .” In 1954 a similar treaty was signed between Austria and Israel.

Noting that non-communicable diseases are the cause of some 35 million deaths each year, the international community is being increasingly called to take important measures for the prevention and control of chronic diseases, and mitigate their impacts on the world population especially on women, who are usually the primary caregivers.

Noting that they were " seekers of meaning and value ", scholars like Timothy Miller have described hippies as a new religious movement.

Noting that using a word with caca in it to describe a thick, brown beverage would not have gone over well with most speakers of Spanish due to the fact that caca means faeces in Spanish, the Coes suggest that the Spanish colonisers combined the Nahuatl atl with the Yucatec Maya chocol, for unlike the Aztec, the Maya tended to drink chocolate heated.

Noting that the invaders have allowed the free practice of religion ( the better to pacify their slaves ), the Americans set up a church of their own and begin acting as " Priests of Mota " ( Mota is atom spelled backwards ) in order to build a resistance movement — which Major Ardmore, the protagonist of the book, refers to as the Sixth Column ( as opposed to a traitorous fifth column ).

Noting that modern famines are sometimes aggravated by misguided economic policies, political design to impoverish or marginalize certain populations, or acts of war, political economists have investigated the political conditions under which famine is prevented.

Noting this important conceptual shift, major contemporary theorists such as Matei Calinescu in Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism ( 1987 ), and Hans Bertens in The Idea of the Postmodern: A History ( 1995 ), have suggested that this is a sign our culture has entered a new post-modern age, when the former modernist ways of thinking and behaving have been rendered redundant.

Noting that most of the genre's artists are singer-songwriters, writers have viewed neo soul artists ' lyrical content of as more " conscious-driven " and having a broader range than most other R & B artists.

Noting his perception of Dershowitz's lack of knowledge about specific contents of his own book during an interview of the two men by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now !, Finkelstein also charged that Dershowitz could not have written the book and may not have even read it.

Noting the similar symptoms which overlap with Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome ( HPS, see below ), several scientists have theorised that the virus may have been the cause of the disease.

Noting a wide range of similarities between the two, she came to the conclusion that British belief in familiars must have been a surviving remnant of earlier animistic and shamanic beliefs in the pre-Christian religions of the island.

Noting the massive size of the room, it was believed to have also been used as a social room.

Noting Adler's position as a practicing Wiccan, and the impact which this would have on her study, Pike however felt that the book was " less defensive and apologetic than sociological studies conducted by many supposedly objective " outsiders ".

Noting similarities between George's novel Children of the Morning ( 1926 ) and William Golding's celebrated Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ), Auberon Waugh suggested that George's work may have subliminally influenced Golding, although the latter denied having read it.

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Noting that people already have the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment, the group opposes public policy that singles out individuals for legalized killing based on their health status.

Noting that males tend to have higher SDO scores than females, Sidanius and Pratto speculate that SDO may be influenced by hormones that differ between the sexes, namely androgens, primarily testosterone.

Noting these things, Simpson conjectures that A Brief Discourse was the product of several editors, the last of whom he believes to have been John Field.

Noting that the plot and setting reminded one of horror fiction works by the German author Hanns Heinz Ewers, and defending Domnişoara Christina in front of harsher criticism, Călinescu nonetheless argued that the " international environment " in which it took place was " upsetting ".

Noting that radiation causes " mutation, cancer and aging " Harman argued that oxygen free radicals produced during normal respiration would cause cumulative damage which would eventually lead to organismal loss of functionality, and ultimately death.

Noting that “ the realism of her works allows no one like Jane Austen to appear in them ,” Miller argued that Austen ’ s omniscient, disembodied, and widely celebrated ( successful ) narrator emerges to compensate, if only partially, for the unmarried ( and thus “ failed ”) author ’ s oppression by “ the conjugal imperative ”: “ Behind the glory of style ’ s willed evacuation of substance lies the ignominy of a subject ’ s hopelessly insufficient social realization, just as behind style ’ s ahistorical impersonality lies the historical impasse of someone whose social representation doubles for social humiliation .” “ For all along ,” Miller wrote later in Jane Austen, “ shame has been style ’ s encrypted alter ego — its alternate form as ego — and style, the unremitting labor of managing and masking this encryption .”

Noting the various pre-capitalist features of mercantilism, Karl Polanyi argued that " mercantilism, with all its tendency toward commercialization, never attacked the safeguards which protected two basic elements of production-labor and land-from becoming the elements of commerce "; thus with mercantilism regulation was more akin to feudalism than capitalism.