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PR and means
PR means " house " and the second word is the name of the goddess Bast or Bastet.
Don't be fooled though, this release will by no means disappoint, due to the large number of high quality art assets already created by the Project Reality Team, and the considerable experience of the PR: ARMA2 Development Team on the Real Virtuality 3 engine!
Background involves satire on Russian politicians and PR battles of 1990s — lie and truth means nothing, but people's trust does.

PR and number
Proportional representation ( PR ) seats assigned to coalitions were further reassigned to their constituent parties in whatever manner and number they agreed upon.
Finally, 32 proportional representation ( PR ) seats are assigned according to national votes to the party or coalition in relation to the total number of votes obtained nationally.
PR seats are assigned to the coalition who then reassigns them to its constituent parties in whatever manner and number they had originally agreed upon, and may or may not work as a bloc in the Senate.
AMD made sure to advertise the PR number of its microprocessors rather than their raw clock speeds believing that customers would compare the PR of AMD's processors to the clock speed of Intel's processors.
The PR number was originally believed to show the clock speed ( in megahertz ) of an equivalent Pentium 4 processor, but this was never confirmed by AMD.
As part of its marketing, AMD even made sure that motherboard manufacturers conspicuously showed the PR number of the microprocessor in the motherboards ' POST and not include the processors ' clock speeds anywhere except within the BIOS.
* Media contact information — name, phone number, email address, mailing address, or other contact information for the PR or other media relations contact person.
The new Neo-Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur nominated a large number of UDF members to his cabinet: François Léotard ( PR ) became minister of Defense, Gérard Longuet ( PR ) of Industry, Pierre Méhaignerie ( CDS ) of Justice, François Bayrou ( CDS ) of Education, Simone Veil ( PR ) of Health and Social Affairs, Alain Madelin ( PR ) of Commerce, Bernard Bosson ( CDS ) of Transport, Jean Puech ( CDS ) of Agriculture, André Rossinot ( Rad ) of Civil Service and Hervé de Charette ( CPR ) of Housing.
The SF participated in both municipal and legislative elections and successfully captured significant number of seats in the urban areas where PR won Parliamentary seats in Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru in the 1959 general election and the SF as a whole successfully garnering 13 % of the votes becoming the third largest party in Parliament after the Alliance and the Pan Malaysian Islamic Party ( PMIP ).
These factors cost the SF significant losses in the 1964 general election where PR and the NCP failed to gain any seats at all and the LPM lost significant number of seats.
" The following year, The Guardian ranked him number one on their list of " The 23 Best Film Directors in the World " stating " his dedication to his craft has intensified, with his disdain for PR and celebrity marking him out as the most devout film-maker of his generation.
Lynne Franks PR was also involved with a number of charities and NGOs.
In 2009 he entered The Guardians MediaGuardian 100, described as the " MediaGuardian's annual guide to the most powerful people in television, radio, newspapers, magazines, digital media, media business, advertising, marketing and PR ", at number 56.
Unlike most of his predecessors, Batycki brought with him extensive marketing and PR knowledge of motorsports, having been a vice president at the North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, NC and a vice president at Richard Childress Racing for a number of years, working with the late Dale Earnhardt for the last years of the seven-time champion's career.
McAndrew has been part of a number of PR campaigns for Yorkshire Water, including a digital version of herself in their Sewer Raider item on the company website.
The number of votes cast for candidates coming in second place on the first ballot ( SMD ) would be subtracted from the number of votes earned on the second ballot ( PR ) by the party of the winning candidate in the first ballot.

PR and seats
For example, under a PR voting system if 30 % of voters support a particular party then roughly 30 % of seats will be won by that party.
MMP should not be confused with the additional member system used in the United Kingdom, which has no overhang seats and consequently is not completely a form of PR.
A variant of this method, the modified Sainte-Laguë method, was used to allocate the proportional representation ( PR ) seats in the Constituent Assembly poll of Nepal in 2008.
Under Blair, Labour launched a massive PR campaign to rebrand as New Labour, introduced women-only shortlists in certain seats and central vetting of Parliamentary candidates, to ensure that its candidates were seen as on-message.
Of the 179 members of parliament, the Faroe Islands and Greenland elect two members each, 175 are elected from ten multi-member constituencies on a party list PR system using the d ' Hondt method and the remaining 40 seats are allocated to ensure proportionality at a national level.
It also allows for far greater numbers of safe seats than PR systems.

PR and won
The 50-year reunion campaign won the Arts, Entertainment & Media Campaign of the Year award at the November 2007 Asia Pacific PR Awards.
In 1992 he won a W H Smith Illustration Award and in 2002 he was the winner of the Trade Union Press and PR Award for Best Illustration.
However, the position of governor was given then to incumbent Resident Commissioner Aníbal Acevedo Vilá who won by razor-thin margin in a highly controversial PR Supreme Court decision that many still hold was politically motivated.
The SOA, along with its public relations firm GolinHarris, won the PR Week Corporate Branding Campaign of the Year award for 2008.
This expanded to a PR job for WilliamsF1, and then running the PR for the Nissan Rally Team in the UK, who won the British title twice in three years.
Many of Quilliam's PR consultancy achieves worldwide coverage, and in 2005-6, her work won both PR Week Award for Campaign of the Year and PR Week Award for Ethical Health Care.
* Cuddalore District ( South Arcot ) won the PR Thevar U-19 Trophy in 1979 and Runners-up in 1980.
In November 2006 Popjustice won a Record of the Day PR & Music Journalism Award in the Best Online Music Publication category, with another individual award going to Peter Robinson in the Breaking Music: Writer Of The Year category.
In 2006, Project Reality won Mod DB's Silver Spanner in the Mod of the Year 2006 awards, with 80, 000 votes in total, and out of 4, 000 mods PR came in second place.
China PR won the tournament, beating hosts Australia in the final.
1998: Won 200 ( 23. 29 ), 2nd in 55 ( 6. 86 ) at MAC Indoor ... 2nd in 200 heat ( 23. 69 ) at NCAA Indoor ... 2nd at Sea-Ray 200 ( 23. 34 )... won 100 ( 11. 31w ) and 200 ( 23. 21 ) at MAC ... 2nd in 200 ( 22. 93 PR ) at NCAA ... ranked # 7 U. S. at 200 by T & FN ... bests of 11. 62 and 22. 93.

PR and by
Dutko's and its strategic partner AMI Communications ( PR company owned by ODS members ) customers are Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Nortrop Grumman, which are largest contractors for NMD development.
Environmentalist organizations and lobbies argue that such widespread skeptical doubts have not developed independently, but have been " encouraged by lobbying and PR campaigns financed by the polluting industries ".
John Stauber ( born 1953 ) is an American writer and political activist who has co-authored five books about propaganda by governments, private interests and the PR industry.
This too ended up being a staged PR stunt perpetrated by Greif.
PR is used by more nations than the single winner system, and it dominates Europe, including Germany, most of northern and eastern Europe, and for European Parliament elections.
PR applied to a single-member district ( SMD ) is by necessity majoritarian.
If the constituency is in a jurisdiction using list PR in its multimember districts ( MMDs ) the winning candidate needs a relative majority of the votes to win, so that the election in the SMD is by first-past-the-post.
Countries by type of PR system
PR Watch ( PRWatch. org ) is an investigative reporting site published by the Center for Media and Democracy ( CMD ).
PRWatch. org previously produced a quarterly print periodical available by subscription called " PR Watch ," whose stated mission was to expose deceptive and misleading public relations campaigns.
They were assisted in this by a group of friends and associates who helped to sculpt the classic Roxy Music ' look ', notably fashion designer Antony Price, hair stylist Keith Mainwaring, photographer Karl Stoecker, the group's " PR consultant " Simon Puxley ( a former university friend of Mackay's ) and Ferry's art school classmate Nicholas De Ville.
He, along with his ' production team ', mounted what in modern days could be termed a PR event, in which the ( rather tubby ) King was dressed in tartan ( worn over pink tights ), and was greeted by his people, many of whom were also dressed in similar tartan ceremonial dress.
Inspired by Wikipedia's collaborative writing model, Rampton founded Disinfopedia ( now known as SourceWatch ), another CMD project, to complement his PR Watch work to expose what Rampton perceives as deceptive and misleading public relations campaigns.
A PR firm hired by Big Tobacco initiates a smear campaign against Wigand, dredging up details about his life and publishing a 500-page dossier.
The city is accessed by two major bridges ; the Harbor Bridge ( US 181 ) and the John F. Kennedy Causeway ( PR 22 ).
Franklin Foer reported in The New Republic that Rendon has been dogged throughout his career " by complaints of profligate spending — even charged with being the PR equivalent of the Pentagon's $ 400 toilet seat.
He is assisted by the airport staff — Vice President Bengston, PR man Malloy, mechanic Robbins, and ramp attendant Cousins — but despite their combined efforts, no one can explain how an empty plane could safely land and taxi to a stop.
CAIR was founded in June 1994 by three former officers of the Islamic Association of Palestine ( IAP )— Omar Ahmad ( IAP President ; became CAIR President ), Nihad Awad ( IAP PR Director ; became CAIR Secretary & Treasurer ), and Rafeeq Jaber ( IAP Chicago Chapter President ; became CAIR Vice President ).
The PR ( Performance Rating ) system was developed by AMD in the mid-1990s as a method of comparing their x86 processors to those of rival Intel.
Ten years after the end of the original Melrose Place, Amanda Woodward is now a partner in a PR firm, and is both mentor and tormentor to a young underling, Ella, played by Katie Cassidy.

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