In the United States there is concern among some collectors that the United States Postal Service has become a promotional agent for the media and entertainment industry, as it has frequently issued entire sets of stamps featuring movie stars and cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Bart Simpson Over the decades the annual average number of new postage stamp issued by the U. S. P. S.

Over the next few years, Joyce's method became one of " increasingly obsessional concern with note-taking, since obviously felt that any word he wrote had first to have been recorded in some notebook.

Over the course of Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation she shows an obsessive concern for his safety and earns the nickname " The Tiger Woman " for the ferocity with which she is willing to defend him, and her accuracy, reflexes, and skill ( all thought to be superhuman to the point of feline ).

Over the previous month several intrusions of PSN have caused the developers to post messages of concern and apology, but also assurances the SOE servers and systems were not compromised.

Over the ensuing years the two discussed several issues of mutual concern and the much younger Jones came to see himself as the heir to ' the cause ' of the elderly Father Divine.

Over domestic negotiations, the executive absorbs the concern of societal actors and builds coalitions with them ; at the international level, the executive tries to implement these concerns without committing to anything that will have deleterious effects at home.

Over the last 36 months the BBB has processed 126 unresolved consumer complaints regarding selling practices, advertising issues, service issues among other areas of concern.

Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.

Over the years, enlivened chiefly by disputes about the relative merits of Maine and Idaho potatoes, the menu has pursued its drab all-American course.

The audience wouldn't let her leave until it had heard `` Over The Rainbow '' -- although the fellow that kept crying for `` Get Happy '' had to go home unhappy, about that item anyway.

Over time the forms of and ideas about communication have evolved through progression of technology.

Over 4 million Cambodians ( about 90 % of eligible voters ) participated in the May 1993 elections, although the Khmer Rouge or Party of Democratic Kampuchea ( PDK ), whose forces were never actually disarmed or demobilized, barred some people from participating.

Over time, variations have emerged, brought about by natural phonetic changes that occur over time, adaptions for local written forms with special characters or diacritics ( which are sometimes represented with the other hand ), and avoidance of handshapes that are considered obscene in some cultures.

Over the following decades, Muslims faced the same fate and about 60 years after the Jews, they were also compelled to convert (" moriscos ") or be expelled.

Over the next year, Himmler grew the SS from a force of about 290 men to about 3, 000.

Jarmusch was the only person Ray brought to work – as his personal assistant – on Lightning Over Water, a documentary about his dying years on which he was collaborating with Wim Wenders.

Over the course of 1961, Adenauer had his concerns about both the status of Berlin and US leadership confirmed, as the Soviets and East Germans built the Berlin Wall.

Over time, different traditions of the Oral Law came into being, raising debates about what the laws or their rulings were.

Over a period of about 30 years, from 1880 to 1910, the nail-making process was almost completely automated.

Over half of the Yorubas are Christian and about a quarter are Muslim, with the remainder hold traditional Yoruba views.

Over a period of several months, Jean Picard and Rømer observed about 140 eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io, while in Paris Giovanni Domenico Cassini observed the same eclipses.

Over 2 million demonstrate nationally ; about 250, 000 in the nation's capitol.

Over this cycle, Earth's north axial pole moves from where it is now, within 1 ° of Polaris, in a circle around the ecliptic pole, with an angular radius of about 23. 5 degrees.

According to Paul Krugman, " Over all, the 1982 tax increase undid about a third of the 1981 cut ; as a share of G. D. P., the increase was substantially larger than Mr. Clinton's 1993 tax increase.

Over 90 % of the Earth's crust is composed of silicate minerals, making silicon the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust ( about 28 % by mass ) after oxygen.

* Over a 4-year period German film maker Mike Siegel produced and directed Passion & Poetry-The Ballad Of Sam Peckinpah a two-hour long film about Sam Peckinpah which includes rare Peckinpah-interviews and statements.

Over the past few decades, new information about the revolt has come to light, from the discovery of several collections of letters, some possibly by Bar Kokhba himself, in the Cave of Letters overlooking the Dead Sea.

* White Over Black: Discourses of Whiteness in Australian Culture in Borderlands eJournal Focuses on debates about representing Australia ’ s colonial history, specifically in regard to child removal.

Over the coming two decades of almost constant warfare it is estimated that somewhere in the vicinity of five million died — probably about half of them civilians — and France alone counted nearly a million ( by some sources in excess of a million ) deaths.

Over the years since its creation, vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984.

Sailing yachts can range in overall length ( Length Over All — LOA ) from about to well over, where the distinction between a yacht and a ship becomes blurred.

Over a temperature range from 25 to 200 Af and at pressures up to 250 atm, an overload of 300 psi, applied for a period of one day, results in an uncertainty in the pressure of, at most, one millimeter of mercury.

Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.

Over 400 Portland firms contributed funds for the maintenance of Junior Achievement headquarters here.

Over Grant's objection, Johnson removed generals Sheridan and Sickles for failing to follow his earlier orders to circumvent the Reconstruction acts.

Over the rest of the cell, except for a diminished mouth called the micropore, the membrane is supported by vesicles called alveoli, forming a semi-rigid pellicle.

Over the years, Widdecombe has expressed her support for a reintroduction of the death penalty, which was abolished in the UK in 1965.

Specifically, at speeds of OC-3 and above, the cost of segmentation and reassembly ( SAR ) hardware makes ATM less competitive for IP than Packet Over SONET ( POS ); because of its fixed 48-byte cell payload, ATM is not suitable as a data link layer directly underlying IP ( without the need for SAR at the data link level ) since the OSI layer on which IP operates must provide a maximum transmission unit ( MTU ) of at least 576 bytes.

Over 2 / 3 of prescriptions were for the newer more expensive atypicals, each costing on average $ 164 compared to $ 40 for the older types.

Over time, he gradually took over responsibility for the relationships between the small Bahá ' i exile community and the outside world.

Over 750 Staggerwings were built, with 270 manufactured for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.

Over succeeding decades the number of societies has decreased, as various societies merged to form larger ones, often renaming in the process, and other societies opted for demutualisation followed by-in the great majority of cases-eventual takeover by a listed bank.

Over half of the registered voting population of Chile has opted for a change away from center-left politics by electing a right-wing candidate, Sebastián Piñera

Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for the Spanish Empire.

Over the years Love gained considerable notoriety for her unpredictable live performances, distinguished by subversive, confrontational behavior and verbose interaction with the audience.

Strips begun during the mid-1980s or after ( such as Get Fuzzy, Over the Hedge, Monty, and others ) are known for their heavy use of storylines, lasting between one and three weeks in most cases.

In March 1987, the group were awarded ' Best New Talent ', along with ' Song of the Year ' and ' Best Video ' for " Don't Dream It's Over ", at the inaugural ARIA Music Awards.

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

Over blocking can filter out material that should be acceptable under the filtering policy in effect, for example health related information may unintentionally be filtered along with porn-related material because of the Scunthorpe problem.

As of 2008, Flockhart is the national spokesperson for Peace Over Violence.

Over time, tuition for limited-matriculated students became an important source of system revenues.