" Microsoft said that the key's symbol was " _NSAKEY " because the NSA is the technical review authority for U. S. export controls, and the key ensures compliance with U. S. export laws.

Transportation includes the Astoria Regional Airport with U. S. Route 30 and U. S. Route 101 as the main highways, and the Astoria – Megler Bridge connecting to neighboring Washington across the river.

The main sources for gem material are Brazil and the U. S .. Australia, France, Germany, Namibia, Norway, and Spain have also produced gem quality amblygonite.

In both cases, the U. S. was the main donor to inter-African organizations headquartered in Ouagadougou which through sustained efforts have achieved and consolidated these gains.

The biotechnology sector has allowed the U. S. farming industry to rapidly increase its supply of corn and soybeans — the main inputs into biofuels — by developing genetically modified seeds which are resistant to pests and drought.

There are three main ways for Chilean firms to raise funds abroad: bank loans, issuance of bonds, and the selling of stocks on U. S. markets through American Depository Receipts ( ADRs ).

The main trend regarding the history of U. S. foreign policy since the American Revolution is the shift from non-interventionism before and after World War I, to its growth as a world power and global hegemon during and since World War II and the end of the Cold War in the 20th century.

( where the first map is the gradient, the second is the curl, the third is the divergence ) serves as a nice quantification of the complicatedness of the underlying region U. These are the beginnings and main motivations of de Rham cohomology.

Equipment from the Soviet Union is being progressively replaced by more modern U. S., French, and British equipment, a significant portion of which is built under license in Egypt, such as the M1A1 Abrams tank which makes Egypt the owner of the second largest number of latest generation main battle tanks in the region after Israel, and the second after Syria in case of the older generations.

U. S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.

As reported in the journal Science, testing of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA by Warren Johnson and Stephen O ' Brien of the U. S. National Cancer Institute demonstrated that ancient cats evolved into eight main lineages that diverged in the course of at least 10 migrations ( in both directions ) from continent to continent via the Bering land bridge and Isthmus of Panama, with the Panthera genus being the oldest and the Felis genus being the youngest.

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

* 2005 – A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U. S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.

An early triumph of Luthor's first term occurs during the Our Worlds at War comic book crossover, in which he coordinates the U. S. Army, Earth's superheroes, and a number of untrustworthy alien forces to battle the main villain of the story arc, Imperiex.

* 1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U. S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.

The main road into major towns would therefore become a sea of orange or red neon proclaiming < span style =" color: orange ;"> VACANCY </ span > ( and later < span style =" color: red ;"> C </ span >< span style =" color: blue ;"> O </ span >< span style =" color: orange ;"> L </ span >< span style =" color: purple ;"> O </ span >< span style =" color: cyan ;"> U </ span >< span style =" color: brown ;"> R </ span > TV, air conditioning or a pool ) as competing operators vied for precious visibility on crowded highways.

U. S. military bases occupied 18 % of the main island and 75 % of all USFJ bases are located in Okinawa prefecture.

The main exceptions to this system have been the United States and the presidential republics in Latin America, modelled on the U. S. system, in which the president directly exercises executive authority.

The main pipe ( U ) can handle any instruction, while the other ( V ) can handle the most common simple instructions.

The book's main idea is that high levels of fat intake are the cause of many health disorders common in the U. S., and thus that cutting fat consumption down to 10 % of the total calories consumed would be optimal for most people.

Armed opposition to the Sandinista Government eventually divided into two main groups: The Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense ( FDN ), a U. S. supported army formed in 1981 by the CIA, U. S. State Department, and former members of the widely condemned Somoza-era Nicaraguan National Guard ; and the Alianza Revolucionaria Democratica ( ARDE ) Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, a group that had existed since before the FSLN and was led by Sandinista founder and former FSLN supreme commander, Edén Pastora, a. k. a. " Commander Zero ".

By 1955, the internal power struggle between the two ( main ) factions of the Phibul regime-led by Police General Phao Sriyanonda, on the one hand, and General ( later, Field Marshal ) Srisdi Dhanarajata, on the other-became fierce to the degree that Police General Phao Sriyanonda sought the U. S. support for a coup against the Phibul regime ( but was rejected ).

The U. S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas, along with the much smaller but historically distinct Water Island, and many other surrounding minor islands.

The main political parties in the U. S. Virgin Islands are the Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands, the Independent Citizens Movement, and the Republican Party of the Virgin Islands.

The intense secrecy surrounding the base, whose very existence the U. S. government did not even acknowledge until 29 September 1995, has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component to unidentified flying object ( UFO ) folklore.

Since the 12th century, courts have had parallel and co-equal authority to make law -- " legislating from the bench " is a traditional and essential function of courts, which was carried over into the U. S. system as an essential component of the " judicial power " specified by Article III of the U. S. constitution.

The Colombian Government sought additional support from the IFIs, the European Union, and other countries, with the intention of financing the social component of the original plan, but met with little cooperation as the would-be donors considered that the U. S. approved aid represented an undue military slant and additionally lacked the will to spend such amounts of money.

The monthly changes in the currency component of the U. S. money supply show currency being added into (% change greater than zero ) and removed from circulation (% change less than zero ).

While the description of strong and weak interactions within the Standard Model is based on gauge symmetries governed by the simple symmetry groups SU ( 3 ) and SU ( 2 ) which allow only discrete charges, the remaining component, the weak hypercharge interaction is described by an abelian symmetry U ( 1 ) which in principle allows for arbitrary charge assignments.

NSA is a key component of the U. S. Intelligence Community, which is headed by the Director of National Intelligence.

At the time, molasses was the standard sweetener in the U. S. Molasses can also be fermented to produce rum and ethyl alcohol, the active ingredient in other alcoholic beverages and a key component in the manufacturing of munitions at the time.

The National Guard was established as a reserve component with the Militia Act of 1903 under Title 10 and Title 32 of the U. S. Code The National Defense Act of 1947 created the Air Force as a separate branch of the Armed Forces of the United States and concurrently created the Air National Guard as one of its reserve components, mirroring the Army's component structure.

Homeland security is also usually used to connote the civilian aspect of this effort ; " homeland defense " refers to its military component, led chiefly by the U. S. Northern Command headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

In 1990, Congress asked the U. S. Department of Education ( ED ) to compile a list of available programs on beginning reading instruction, evaluating each in terms of the effectiveness of its phonics component.

The largest component of the Office of Management and Budget are the four Resource Management Offices which are organized along functional lines mirroring the U. S. federal government, each led by an OMB associate director.

The U. S. Census Bureau treats Roane County as the Harriman, Tennessee, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette, TN, Combined Statistical Area.

Y ' stands for the luma component ( the brightness ) and U and V are the chrominance ( color ) components ; luminance is denoted by Y and luma by Y ' – the prime symbols (') denote gamma compression, with " luminance " meaning perceptual ( color science ) brightness, while " luma " is electronic ( voltage of display ) brightness.

Filipino Martial Arts are considered the most advanced practical modern blade system in the world and are now a core component of the U. S. Army's Modern Army Combatives program and used by the Russian Spetsnaz ( special forces ).

Pure stands are common, and it is a major component of the northern and central U. S. hardwood forests.

The assaulting formations were controlled by the U. S. VI Corps, but as with Salerno, there was a substantial British component to the assault force.

Although the new Compact and its component MUORA was ratified in 2003, they have since held out and refused to sign the LUA of 2003, insisting, through Kwajalein Atoll elected representatives, that either a new LUA should be drafted that considers their needs or the U. S. will have to leave Kwajalein when the active LUA ( which began in the 1980s ) expires in 2016.

A pyranometer, a component of a temporary remote meteorological station, measures insolation on Skagit Bay, Washington ( U. S. state ) | Washington.

It became a standard component to U. S. military funerals in 1891.

The OECD and U. S. systems provide that prices may be set by the component members of an enterprise in any manner, but may be adjusted to conform to an arm's length standard.

Where services performed are of a nature performed by the enterprise ( or the performing or receiving component ) as a key aspect of its business, OECD and U. S. rules provide that some level of profit is appropriate to the service performing component.