Companies of all types have made great advances in production capabilities and efficiencies -- in modern equipment and new processes, enlarged R & D facilities, faster new product development.

Is your R & D or product development program tuned in to the commercial realities of the market??

Are there regular communications from the field, or meetings of sales and marketing personnel with R & D people??

Many companies have systems, particularly in R & D, which work more or less well, depending upon size and actual belief in the policy on the part of administration, as will be abundantly apparent in subsequent quotations.

We have set up a central R & D department, as well as engineering-management departments -- about 80 people working on problems related to those of our plants.

There were four kinds of allegiances ( Rittson v Stordy ( 1855 ) 3 Sm & G 230 ; De Geer v Stone ( 1882 ) 22 Ch D 243 ; Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 54 LT 684 ; Gibson, Gavin v Gibson 3 KB 379 ; Joyce v DPP AC 347 ; Collingwood v Pace ( 1661 ) O Bridg 410 ; Lane v Bennett ( 1836 ) 1 M & W 70 ; Lyons Corp v East India Co ( 1836 ) 1 Moo PCC 175 ; Birtwhistle v Vardill ( 1840 ) 7 Cl & Fin 895 ; R v Lopez, R v Sattler ( 1858 ) Dears & B 525 ; Ex p Brown ( 1864 ) 5 B & S 280 );

See Job 38: 4-7, D & C 93: 29.

-- But behold, from among the righteous, He organized His forces and appointed messengers ..." ( D & C 138: 20, 30 – 32 ).

* Acemoglu, Daron & Angrist, Joshua D. ( 2001 ).

Each ballot can therefore be viewed as a small " delta " which separates two groups of candidates, or a single-pair of ranks ( e. g. if a ballot indicates that A & C are approved and B & D are not, the ballot can be considered to convey the ranking >).

* Auriga ( company ), a software R & D and IT outsourcing services provider

The Plus 1 needed Page & D for it's workspace, and some games used this space.

( Washington, D. C .: Judd & Detweiler Inc., 1910

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

* Southeast Alaska energy export study: final report / prepared for The Southeast Conference ; by D. Hittle & Associates, Inc., in association with Commonwealth Associates, Inc.

* Briggs, D. E. G .; Erwin, Douglas H. & Collier, Frederick J.

Low productivity and competitiveness on the European and world markets alike due to inadequate R & D funding and a lack of a clearly defined development policy remain a significant obstacle for foreign investment and economic growth.

In April 2007, Borland announced that it would be relocating its headquarters and R & D facilities to Austin, Texas.

In the early 1990s, she worked as an associate at the Washington, D. C .- based law firm of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering where she did civil litigation for several years before becoming an Assistant U. S. Attorney.

She was later a partner in the Washington, D. C. office of the Birmingham, Alabama law firm Balch & Bingham.

D & D settings are based in various fantasy subgenres and feature varying levels of magic and technology.

The magic system in DragonQuest is different from D & D in that there are distinct Magical Colleges, with each one carrying its own group of spells and rituals.

Planescape: Torment is set in the Planescape " multiverse " of AD & D, a setting which consists of various planes of existence, the creatures which live in them ( such as devils, modrons, and even deities ), and the properties of the magic that infuses each plane.

Aud had previously used magic against her past lovers as well, casting spells to create boils on the penis, for example, but this act of vengeance against Olaf attracts the attention of the demon D ' Hoffryn, who offers to transform her into a vengeance demon for scorned women.

Notable published authors on chaos magic include John Balance, Peter J. Carroll, Jan Fries, Jaq D. Hawkins, Robert Anton Wilson, Phil Hine, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Jozef Karika, Ian Read, Ray Sherwin, Lionel Snell and Ralph Tegtmeier.

A shy boy who spent " a lot of time in my room, staying in my head ", D ' Onofrio later became interested in magic and sleight of hand, tricks he learned from Cuban entertainers who owned a small magic shop.

By around 150 A. D. provincials had made up their minds that the Christians by refusing to worship the Gods were responsible for all manner of ills such as famine, plague and earthquakes and of practices such as cannibalism and black magic.

In D & D, dragons grow stronger and stronger as they grow older ( they become bigger, more resistant to damages and magic, have a more dangerous breath, and so on ).

Old dragons can cast draconic magic which is a special form of D & D magic ; dragons can cast spells with just a few words, rather than a sometimes long and complex ritual involving words, gestures and preparations like other D & D wizards.

" D. Michael Quinn argues Smith eventually began using " biblical terminology to mainstream an instrument and practice of folk magic .... There was no reference to the Urim and Thummim in the headings of the Book of Commandments ( 1833 ) or in the headings of the only editions of the Doctrine and Covenants prepared during Smith's life.

However, D prefers his physical abilities, only using his magic in times of great need.

D can also use magic, Left Hand's abilities, and items.

* After the Development of Agriculture, A. D. A., system of counting years, like A. D. and A. M.

In his 1972 book American Criminal Justice, Jonathan D. Caplan comments on the Supreme Court decision, noting, " The Alford decision recognizes the plea-bargaining system, acknowledging that a man may maintain his innocence but still plead guilty in order to minimize his potential loss.

The chief advocate and driving force for improving public health in Chicago was Dr. John H. Rauch, M. D., who established a plan for Chicago's park system in 1866, created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with festering, shallow graves, and helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health in 1867 in response to an outbreak of cholera.

* Washington, D. C. ( 1890 – 1899, part of the Washington streetcar system )

In 1977, the game was split into two versions: the relatively rules-light game system of Dungeons & Dragons and the more structured, rules-heavy game system of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as AD & D or ADnD ).

It is also required for V ( D ) J recombination, the process that generates diversity in immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor loci during immune system development.

This system is particularly useful for basslines that have a repeating pedal point such as a low D, because once the note is locked in place with the mechanical " finger ," the lowest string sounds a different note when played open ( e. g., a low D ).

The UK National Health Service uses a similar system with categories labeled A, B, C, and D. The above Levels are only appropriate for treatment or interventions ; different types of research are required for assessing diagnostic accuracy or natural history and prognosis, and hence different " levels " are required.

Other key members of the development team included Bill Trost, who created the history, lore and major characters of Norrath ( including Everquest protagonist Firiona Vie ), Geoffrey " GZ " Zatkin who implemented the spell system, and artist Milo D. Cooper, who did the original character modeling in the game.

SSS's version of the game, which reached the market in 2003, used the d20 Modern system, and mimicked D & Ds " three core book " model with three hardcover manuals:

Gygax designed numerous manuals for the game system, as well as several pre-packaged adventures called " modules " that gave a person running a D & D game ( the " Dungeon Master ") a rough script and ideas on how to run a particular gaming scenario.

Pinafore, the D ' Oyly Carte repertory and production system was cemented, and each opera would make use of these stock character types.

Another fairly detailed vehicle system, designed and optimized for crewed Solar System exploration, " Discovery II ", based on the D < sup > 3 </ sup > He reaction but using hydrogen as reaction mass, has been described by a team from NASA's Glenn Research Center.

X. 25 over the D channel is used at many point-of-sale ( credit card ) terminals because it eliminates the modem setup, and because it connects to the central system over a B channel, thereby eliminating the need for modems and making much better use of the central system's telephone lines.

Besides the navigable waterways already named, there are the Sabine ( Sah-BEAN ), forming the western boundary ; and the Pearl, the eastern boundary ; the Calcasieu ( KAL-cah-shew ), the Mermentau, the Vermilion, Bayou Teche, the Atchafalaya ( a-CHAF-a-LI-a ), the Boeuf ( bEHf ), Bayou Lafourche, the Courtableau, Bayou D ' Arbonne, the Macon, the Tensas ( TEN-saw ), Amite River, the Tchefuncte ( CHA-Funk-ta ), the Tickfaw, the Natalbany, and a number of other smaller streams, constituting a natural system of navigable waterways, aggregating over long.

Smith saw the mercantile system as an enormous conspiracy by manufacturers and merchants against consumers, a view that has led some authors, especially Robert E. Ekelund and Robert D. Tollison to call mercantilism " a rent-seeking society ".

These can arise via incomplete splicing, V ( D ) J recombination in the adaptive immune system, mutations in DNA, transcription errors, leaky scanning by the ribosome causing a frame shift, and other causes.

The earliest reports of Germanic militia was the system of hundreds which was described in 98 A. D. by Tacitus as the centeni.

It was subsequently placed in the middle of several spiral representations of the periodic system for classifying the chemical elements, such as those of Charles Janet ( 1928 ), E. I. Emerson ( 1944 ), John D. Clark ( 1950 ) and in Philip Stewart's Chemical Galaxy ( 2005 ).