According to Nate Silver, the advent of this playoff series, and especially of the wild card, has caused teams to focus more on " getting to the playoffs " rather than " winning the pennant " as the primary goal of the regular season.

* Silver Jubilee, a celebration of a 25th anniversary ( especially the reign of a monarch )

The College buys local and organic food for its dining halls, has undertaken a variety of outreach initiatives ; requires that all new construction meet LEED Silver standards ; offsets a percentage of its emissions with Renewable Energy Credits ; and reduces water consumption, especially in landscaping.

* Tai Loi: The Tai Loi speak a Palaungic language resembling De ' ang ( especially the Bulei dialect of Yunnan ) and Silver Palaung.

Different strains of F. oxysporum have been used in the purpose of producing nanomaterials ( especially Silver nanoparticles ).

Creamed chipped beef is standard fare on many such diner menus, especially in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, but has become harder to find in chain restaurants that serve breakfast ; among the restaurants still offering chipped beef on toast are Golden Corral and Silver Diner.

Following the Roll Call, the Ross Volunteers give a 21-gun salute, and buglers play Silver Taps, an especially evocative version of the military's mournful melody of farewell.

From 1891 until 1897 he was a member of the United States Senate, in which, during President Cleveland's second term, he was recognized as the chief defender of the Administration, and he was especially active in securing the repeal of the silver purchase clause of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.

He uses his magical items, formidable array of spells, and his Chosen powers ( especially his Silver Fire ), in that order, to deal with his foes.

From the 1870s, those converted to dry ketches were used in fleeting in the North Sea, especially in the Silver Pits.

* Liver chestnut: Silver dapples, especially bay silvers, are frequently misidentified as liver chestnuts or flaxen chestnuts.

However, it can be said that Page's early films are particularly bad, even on the admittedly low Silver Star standards, but they have attracted some cult interest, especially in French B-movie fandom.

Frederick Lehmann always refused to run for public office, especially at a party convention of the breakaway Gold Democrats ( opposed to the Free Silver candidate William Jennings Bryan ) in St. Louis which he chaired ( being foreign-born, he could not run for President anyway ), and he declined judgeships.

The project to establish the school was announced in 1977, during Jordan's Silver Jubilee celebrations of King Hussein's accession to the throne, as a tribute to His Majesty's development efforts, especially in the field of education.

Critics referred to him as the " John Wayne " or " Anthony Quinn " of Egyptian cinema and of the Arabic speaking World ", and to the masses he was the Beast of the Silver Screen, who championed the underdog, especially women, and the dispossessed using an effective mixture of cunning, physical strength, personal charm, and unbending principles, to overcome the wicked aggressors.

Interested parties can acquire citizenship if they pass the government's strict background checks and make an investment into an approved real estate development, Silver Reef development.

In a 1997 review of the film for the journal Nature Genetics, molecular biologist Lee M. Silver stated that " Gattaca is a film that all geneticists should see if for no other reason than to understand the perception of our trade held by so many of the public-at-large ".

Silver, Swetnam, and Wylde all agreed that the staff was among the best, if not the very best, of all hand weapons.

The Townes van Zandt song, " The Silver Ships of Andilar ", makes mention of a land called Valinor, although it is unclear if it is meant to be the same location, since van Zandt describes it as a lifeless plain.

In July, 2012, the New York Post reported that negotiations ( lead by Silver Point Capital ) with the Teamsters Union were close to a possible agreement that could allow Hostess Brands to cut employee pay and benefits, if the company maintained funding of existing pension plans.

For instance, the depiction of Krypton reflects the older idealized version in the Silver Age of Comic Books while the scope of Superman's powers reflect the more restrained contemporary concept as developed by John Byrne in that the superhero has to struggle to perform spectacular feats, while Clark Kent is shown to be openly, if quietly, self-confident.

"' Now that bird ,' Silver would say, ' is, may be, two hundred years old, Hawkins-they live forever mostly, and if anybody's seen more wickedness it must be the devil himself.

Chris Milam, head of Silver State Baseball Group, LLC plans to move the team to a new ballpark at his proposed Las Vegas National Sports Center, if the complex is built.

Silver Lake operates its own vocational facilities ; if a trade is chosen that is not supported by Silver Lake students are sent to South Shore Vocational Technical High School in Hanover.

Another new apartment is currently in the building process on Silver Street and there are plans for a new block of flats to be built which will go ahead if the council allow it.

The Silver Ranger was the subject of debate, as Saban were unsure if they wanted to use him.

The first explores the outcome if the Silver Surfer and Impossible Man respectively had possessed the artifact.

" Military personnel serving on active duty would normally not be recommended for Gold and Silver Lifesaving Medals ; however, military personnel may be recommended for a Lifesaving Medal if the act of heroism was performed while the individual was in a leave or liberty

For example: if there were five silver dollars in the treasury, the government would print a $ 5 Silver Certificate against the dollars, providing a somewhat easier medium of exchange.

That the said Silver Arrow be shot for at the rovers in Leith Links, upon the second Monday of June yearly, at ten of the clock in the forenoon if the day be favourable ; and if not, that the shooting be adjourned to the next fair Monday.

Other anti-microbial surface treatments typically contain variants of metals known to suppress mold growth ; i. e. pigments or solutions involving Copper, Silver, Zinc or other metals ( some of which can be toxic to humans if improperly applied ).

Silver iodide is always combined with silver bromide or silver chloride, except in the case of some historical processes such as the collodion wet plate and daguerreotype, in which the iodide is sometimes used alone ( generally regarded as necessary if a daguerreotype is to be developed by the Becquerel method, in which exposure to strong red light, which affects only the crystals bearing latent image specks, is substituted for exposure to mercury fumes ).

Lee M. Silver, a biologist and science writer who coined the term " reprogenetics " and supports its applications, has nonetheless expressed concern that these methods could create a two-tiered society of genetically-engineered " haves " and " have nots " if social democratic reforms lag behind implementation of reprogenetic technologies.

This inspires Mr. Hoppy to claim that he can make tortoises grow bigger with a magic spell, which he tells Mrs. Silver will make Alfie grow if it is whispered into his ear three times a day.

The metaphor was continued by a Seneca speaker, who said " Let the Chaine be Kept Cleane and bright as Silver that the great tree that is can not break it a peeces if it should fall upon itt.

However, by the early 1950s, overhead valve V8s from sister divisions Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile, as well as new overhead valve V8s from Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation, made the " Silver Streak " all but obsolete in power, It was a quiet, smooth running engine that served the needs of the 1930s and ' 40s American consumer adequately for power, if not reliability or economy, but by 1954, the engine was decidedly eclipsed not only by competing auto makers, but by General Motors ' own divisions ' products as well.

It will take a participant at least 6 months to complete their Silver DofE programme if they have already achieved a Bronze Award.

Uther used his natural leadership skills to rally the best knights of Azeroth to be blessed as Paladins, and formed the Knights of the Silver Hand.

Silver was often found alloyed with gold.

Heywood was a Gardner businessman, who renamed it The Stone Silver Shop, and later, Stone Associates.

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Greetings was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won a Silver Bear award.

The most expensive was the building of the Phase II Silver Line tunnel under Fort Point Channel, done in coordination with Big Dig construction.

During the 1940s Haley was considered one of the top cowboy yodelers in America as " Silver Yodeling Bill Haley ".

One of his most famous teachings was a variant of the Golden Rule sometimes called the " Silver Rule " owing to its negative form:

The album reached the Top 20 in the UK and was certified Silver.

Unlike in the Silver Age, his powers developed over several years, only coming to their peak when he was an adult.

Traditionally, Lois Lane ( and sometimes others ) would often suspect Superman of truly being Clark Kent ; this was particularly prominent in Silver Age stories, including those in the series Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane.

The second trilogy was titled The Prince with the Silver Hand ( United Kingdom ) and The Chronicles of Corum ( United States ) respectively.

Atkins's first hit single was " Mr. Sandman ", followed by " Silver Bell ", which he did as a duet with Hank Snow.

In 1999, Cronenberg was inducted onto Canada's Walk of Fame and was awarded with the Silver Bear Award at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.

Spiegel and Raimi wrote most of the film in their house in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, where they were living with the aforementioned Coen brothers, as well as actors Frances McDormand, Kathy Bates, and Holly Hunter ( Hunter was the primary inspiration for the Bobby Jo character ).

Three films have so far received international recognition by being selected to compete in major film festivals: Caterpillar by Kōji Wakamatsu was in competition for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Silver Bear for Best Actress, Outrage by Takeshi Kitano was in competition for the Palme d ' Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and Himizu, by Sion Sono was in competition for the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival.

In his tenure with the Marlins, Lowell was a three time All-Star and won a Silver Slugger and Gold Glove.

Peter Jackson's 1995 film Forgotten Silver was billed and introduced as a serious documentary, purporting to tell the story of ' forgotten ' New Zealand filmmaker Colin McKenzie.

" He was discharged in 1946 and joined the Upper Atmosphere Rocket Program at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland, working there until 1950.

Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism and subsidies to business, farmers or veterans.

The result was a retention of the status quo, and a postponement of the resolution of the Free Silver issue.

On June 15, 2012, Powers was posthumously awarded the Silver Star medal for demonstrating “ exceptional loyalty ” while enduring harsh interrogation in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow for almost two years.