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from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.
Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.
At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.
Indeed, it is probable that this point is reached the moment the third level of change begins.
Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.
In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.
From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.
The cholesterol level in the blood is influenced by the glands of the body.
The Act further provides for a `` floor '' or minimum allotment, set at the 1954 level, which is called the `` base '' allotment, and a `` ceiling '' or maximum allotment, for each State.
The long-range objective is to hold the damage from destructive agencies below the level which would seriously interfere with intensive management of the National Forest System under principles of multiple use and high-level sustained yield of products and services.
In the 10-year period, it is proposed that insect and disease control on the National Forest System be stepped up to a level of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations that will substantially reduce the occurrence of large infestations toward the end of the initial period.
This is to be accomplished by nearly doubling the present level of preventive effort, detection, skilled fire-fighting crews, and equipment use.
The task of providing a reasonable level of military strength, without endangering other vital aspects of our security, is greatly complicated by the swift pace of scientific progress.
For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.
It is interesting to note that the present level of military electronics procurement is greater than the industry's total sales to all markets in 1950-1953, which were good years for our industry with television enjoying its initial period of rapid consumer acceptance.
A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.
To measure the volume of one of the combustion chambers in the cylinder head, install the valves and spark plug in the chamber and support the head so that its gasket surface is level.

level and employee's
According to Campbell's Model of The Determinants of Job Performance, job performance is a result of the interaction between declarative knowledge ( knowledge of facts or things ), procedural knowledge ( knowledge of what needs to be done and how to do it ), and motivation ( reflective of an employee's choices regarding whether to expend effort, the level of effort to expend, and whether to persist with the level of effort chosen ).
* " If a job cannot be designed to use an employee's full abilities, then the firm should consider automating the task or replacing the employee with one who has a lower level of skill.
# Dispositional traits and inner feeling on the job ; such as employee's emotional expressiveness, which refers to the capability to use facial expressions, voice, gestures, and body movements to transmit emotions ; or the employee's level of career identity ( the importance of the career role to one's self-identity ), which allows him or her to express the organizationally-desired emotions more easily, ( because there is less discrepancy between his or her expressed behavior and emotional experience when engage their work ).
On a day-to-day or day-ahead operational level these functions might be performed by three or more people at large utilities, but might be combined into a single employee's job at a small utility.

level and incompetence
The principle is commonly phrased, " employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence.
Eventually they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent ( their " level of incompetence "), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions.
Peter's Corollary states that " n time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties " and adds that " work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
In an organizational structure, the Peter Principle's practical application allows assessment of the potential of an employee for a promotion based on performance in the current job ; i. e., members of an hierarchical organization eventually are promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to incompetence.
Thus, " work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
For example, he pointed out that Adolf Hitler was a consummate and superb politician due especially to his charisma and oratorical skills but reached his " level of incompetence " as commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht because of the rigidity of his decision making ( not allowing retreats when necessary according to the tactical situation ).
Dolson argues that people can be demoted, not promoted, to their level of incompetence.
Hierarchies were satirized in The Peter Principle ( 1969 ), a book that introduced hierarchiology and the saying that " in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Dolson argues that people can be DEmoted, not PROmoted, to their level of incompetence.
He became widely famous in 1968, on the publication of The Peter Principle, in which he states: " In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Unrealistic expectations of the potency of the Danish army and incompetence at the political level had overruled the command of the army's wishes to defend Jutland according to the above plan, and instead favoured a frontal defense of Jutland on or near the historical defense ( and legendary border ) line at the Danevirke, near the city of Schleswig in the south.
# Educator Lawrence J. Peter's widely cited Peter Principle -- " In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Although well-intentioned, both fail to understand their predicament and demonstrate a high level of incompetence, hindering Blackadder's escape attempts and augmenting his sense of frustration.
Boynton plays solo kazoo on this recording, noting " I am at the perfect level of musical incompetence for this.
The program takes its name from the Peter Principle, that In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

level and where
But there will be still other countries where, despite the inadequacy of the level of self-help, we shall deem it wise, for political or military reasons, to give substantial economic assistance.
For example, the level of improvement noted in a recent experiment with a short course of immediate treatment for parent-child relationship problems compared favorably with the results reported by typical child guidance clinics where the hours spent in purely diagnostic study may equal or exceed the number of hours devoted to actual treatment interviews in the experimental project.
Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.
In western Europe and North America, where the level of economic development is higher, grains and other seed products furnish less than one-third of the food consumed.
Thus, while altruistic persons may under some circumstances be outcompeted by less altruistic persons at the individual level, according to group selection theory the opposite may occur at the group level where groups consisting of the more altruistic persons may outcompete groups consisting of the less altruistic persons.
Experts said that this drop brought the level to within twenty-seven centimeters of the critical point where flora and fauna would be endangered.
where X is the energy level corresponding to the principal quantum number n, type is a lower-case letter denoting the shape or subshell of the orbital and it corresponds to the angular quantum number l, and y is the number of electrons in that orbital.
This is crossed by foot-hills and rolling prairies in the central part of the state, where it has a mean elevation of about, becomes lower and more level toward the southwest, and in the extreme south is flat and but slightly elevated above the sea.
The top of the building is a crown, like a huge gable, which is at the same level as the roof and helps to conceal the room where there used to be water tanks.
In other words AVL tree is a binary search tree where the height of the left subtree differs from the height of the right subtree by at most 1 level, if it exceeds 1 level then rebalancing occurs.
This anatomic zonation can be appreciated at the microscopic level, where each zone can be recognized and distinguished from one another based on structural and anatomic characteristics.
Differences include where the logistic service transfers artillery ammunition to artillery, the amount of ammunition carried in units and extent to which stocks are held at unit or battery level.
About 28 of the former US military bases in Vietnam where the herbicides were stored and loaded onto airplanes may still have high level of dioxins in the soil, posing a health threat to the surrounding communities.
* In tennis, the serve is dominant to the extent that the server is expected to win most of his service games ( at advanced level & onwards ); a break of service, where the server loses the game, is of major importance in a match.
* The land between Egypt and Canaan of the first Exodus was a " great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland " ( Deut 8: 15 ), but in this new Exodus, the land between Babylon ( Mesopotamia ) and the Promised Land will be transformed into a paradise, where the mountains will be lowered and the valleys raised to create level road ( Isa 40: 4 ).
Lactobacilli, particularly hydrogen peroxide-producing species, appear to help prevent other vaginal microorganisms from multiplying to a level where they cause symptoms.
They stand on the platform where the Batmobile was, then rotates downward to another level where the sonar-modification equipment is kept, from the special Batsuit to the hi-tech weaponry.
Since the second half of the 20th century, computers have been programmed to play chess with increasing success, to the point where home computers can play chess at a very high level.
In contrast, a submergent coastline is one where the sea level has risen, due to a global sea level change, local subsidence, or isostatic rebound.
In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great commissioned Dinocrates of Rhodes to lay out his new city of Alexandria, the grandest example of idealized urban planning of the ancient Mediterranean world, where the city's regularity was facilitated by its level site near a mouth of the Nile.

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