The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

Adjusted sales that month were up a relatively steep 2.5% from those of the month before, which in turn were slightly higher than the January low of $17.8 billion.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Also a color handheld, in comparison to the Lynx it had a higher cost, slightly smaller bulk, and similar battery life.

The far aircraft is actually slightly higher than the near aircraft to make them appear in-line to the audience.

( The percentage may be slightly higher in Canada than in the U. S .)

This generally gives a slightly higher value than the time-consistent busy hour value.

Later, other scientists decided to redefine the degree slightly to make the freezing point exactly 32 ° F, and the boiling point exactly 212 ° F or 180 degrees higher.

Temperatures averaging are constant throughout the year, however, with slightly higher readings in the lowlands.

Arterial plasma or serum levels are slightly higher than venous levels, and capillary levels are typically in between.

In the Pacific lowlands, April, the last month of the dry season, brings the warmest temperatures ; the rainy season is slightly cooler, although higher humidity during the rainy season makes these months feel more uncomfortable.

The oxyhemoglobin has significantly lower absorption of the 660 nm wavelength than deoxyhemoglobin, while at 940 nm its absorption is slightly higher.

The overall game difficulty is slightly higher, as is typical for game expansions.

The decay data for the recently discovered isotope was confirmed, although the alpha energy was slightly higher.

Until about 1750, in large part due to malnutrition, life expectancy in France was about 35 years, and only slightly higher in England.

The 2009 population estimate is 6. 8 % higher than the population reported in the last census from January 1999 ( slightly less than 15 million ).

At slightly higher ( but still low ) concentration, amphiphilic molecules will spontaneously assemble into micelles or vesicles.

For instance, beginning at ( approximately 3. 83 ) there is a range of parameters r which show oscillation among three values, and for slightly higher values of r oscillation among 6 values, then 12 etc.

In the business sector, concerns include the expected increased cost of doing business, threats to profitability, rising levels of unemployment ( and subsequent higher government expenditure on welfare benefits raising tax rates ), and the possible knock-on effects to the wages of more experienced workers who might already be earning the new statutory minimum wage, or slightly more.

If used as emergency contraception, a low dose of mifepristone is slightly less effective than higher doses, but has fewer side effects.

Using a scanning point of light instead of full sample illumination confocal microscopy gives slightly higher resolution, and significant improvements in optical sectioning.

The Vermont grading system differs from the US system in maintaining a slightly higher standard of product density ( measured on the Baumé scale ).

Testing has shown MIDI over USB to perform slightly slower than MIDI over a standard connection, and with higher latency.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

The mediums with whom the Parapsychology Foundation is working in this experiment are in a waking or only slightly dissociated state, so that the sitter can make comments, ask and answer questions, instead of talking with a `` control '' who speaks through an entranced sensitive.

Sometimes slightly stronger theories such as Morse-Kelley set theory or set theory with a strongly inaccessible cardinal allowing the use of a Grothendieck universe are used, but in fact most mathematicians can actually prove all they need in systems weaker than ZFC, such as second-order arithmetic.

Some details were changed slightly to allow more player choice-for example, players can be full Trump Artists without having walked the Pattern or the Logrus, which Merlin says is impossible ; and players ' psychic abilities are far greater than those shown in the books.

Abimelech's name has three main translations, though none treats the name as being completely Hebrew, and all are slightly contorted.

In regions such as Latin America where these languages are spoken, negro ( pronounced slightly differently than Negro in English ), is a normal word used without disparaging intent in relation to black people.

The geopolitical arrangements of the commune are slightly different from those typical of Corsica and France.

These two isomers of butene are slightly different in their chemical and physical properties.

It is medically considered a disease, specifically an addictive illness, and in psychiatry several other terms are used, specifically " alcohol abuse " and " alcohol dependence ," which have slightly different definitions.

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

Regarding alcohol, wines and spirits are to be sold only in the state owned Wine And Spirits shops, where all prices must remain the same throughout the state ( county sales tax may cause the price to differ slightly ).

As compared to binary positional systems, BCD's principal drawbacks are a small increase in the complexity of the circuits needed to implement basic arithmetics and a slightly less dense storage.

Bets to insure against blackjack are slightly less likely to be advantageous than insurance bets in general, since the ten in the player's blackjack makes it less likely that the dealer has blackjack too.

They are generally about 10 percent heavier than steel, although alloys using aluminium or silicon may be slightly less dense.

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

Then those small compound bodies that are least removed from the impetus of the atoms are set in motion by the impact of their invisible blows and in turn cannon against slightly larger bodies.

In this case, the forces exerted towards the left and the right are imbalanced in favor of the left ; the balloon will move slightly to the left.

Juveniles are similar but slightly lighter, with tawny coloration on the head, and no long wing plumes.

During thelarche, the developing breasts sometimes are of unequal size, and usually the left breast is slightly larger ; said condition of asymmetry is transitory and statistically normal to female physical and sexual development.

Bongos are characterised by a striking reddish-brown coat, black and white markings, white-yellow stripes and long slightly spiralled horns.

There are no clear boundaries between the dialects because they form a dialect continuum, varying only slightly from one village to the next.

Those assigned to the Sunday office underwent the least revision, although noticeably fewer psalms are recited at Matins, and both Lauds and Compline are slightly shorter due to psalms ( or in the case of Compline the first few verses of a psalm ) being removed.

In a slightly more complex form a sender and a receiver are linked reciprocally.