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Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.
Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.
Thus, for non-negative changes in the basic wage rate, the industry becomes the active wage-setter, since any increase in the basic wage rate can occur only by reason of industry acquiescence.
Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the basic addressable element in many computer architectures.
" Referring to the argument as the "' Kalam ' cosmological argument ", Duncan asserts that it " received its fullest articulation at the hands of Muslim and Jewish exponents of Kalam (" the use of reason by believers to justify the basic metaphysical presuppositions of the faith ).
One reason for this was that architects ( microcode writers ) sometimes " over-designed " assembler language instructions, i. e. including features which were not possible to implement efficiently on the basic hardware available.
Hume maintained that all knowledge, even the most basic beliefs about the natural world, cannot be conclusively established by reason.
Rationalists generally hold that so-called truths of reason are the ( most important ) epistemologically basic propositions.
Except for the president's desire to perpetuate himself in office, there seemed little reason to alter the nation's basic charter.
For example, religions that preach of the value of faith over evidence from everyday experience or reason inoculate societies against many of the most basic tools people commonly use to evaluate their ideas.
Al-Ghazali abstracted these " basic goods " from the legal precepts in the Qur ' an and Sunnah: they are religion, life, reason, lineage and property.
For Rand, all of the principal virtues are applications of the role of reason as man's basic tool of survival: rationality, honesty, justice, independence, integrity, productiveness, and pride — each of which she explains in some detail in " The Objectivist Ethics.
The basic reason is that no productive factor with a non-zero marginal product is left unutilized, and the units of each factor are so allocated as to yield the same indirect marginal utility in all uses, a basic efficiency condition ( if this indirect marginal utility were higher in one use than in other ones, a Pareto improvement could be achieved by transferring a small amount of the factor to the use where it yields a higher marginal utility ).
He traveled widely in Europe and served as an ambassador and has been called " the first tourist " because he traveled just for pleasure, which was the basic reason he climbed Mont Ventoux.
For that reason ergometer scores are generally not used as the sole selection criterion for crews, and technique training is limited to the basic body position and movements.
For this reason, vesicles are a basic tool used by the cell for organizing cellular substances.
In his opinion all human beings have the same abilities with regard to reason, feelings and imagination, but these basic ingredients are used in different ways and in different environments, which gives rise to different cultures and civilisations.
The Third Umpire can then use only basic technology to judge whether there is any reason to overrule the on-field umpires decision.
They were approached with questions about crops, weather, or the health of bees ( Landa ), and often invoked in curing rituals ( which is the basic reason why the most important early-colonial collection of Yucatec curing texts, the Ritual of the Bacabs, has been named after them ).
The basic reason for closing the community was that it was never self-supporting and had declined from its height of population of 147 to under 100 people by the early 19th century.
They can also carry out some basic tests on both partners to see if there is an identifiable reason for not having achieved a pregnancy yet.
Epicurus ’ basic doctrine is that a life of virtue is the life which generates the most amount of pleasure, and it is for this reason that we ought to be virtuous.

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Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.
There is impressive consistency between specific occupational preferences and the student's basic conception of what is for him a good way of life.
The basic mapping phase of the program has been completed and the inventory phase is scheduled for completion July 1, 1961.
conduct, encourage, and promote fundamental scientific research and basic studies to develop the best and most economical processes and methods for converting saline water into water suitable for beneficial consumptive purposes ; ;
The demand for teaching sets continues unabated since they provide the means for the military physicians to review the pathology of selected disease processes or organ systems for review of basic sciences and correlation of clinical physiological behavior with structural changes.
In addition to the basic programs in wavelength standards, spectroscopy, solid state physics, interactions of the free electron and atomic constants which are necessary to provide the foundation for technological progress, the Bureau has strengthened its activities in laboratory astrophysics.
The 1954 Amendments completely changed the financing of the vocational rehabilitation program, providing for a three-part grant structure -- for ( 1 ) basic support ; ;
The first part of the new structure -- that for supporting the basic program of vocational rehabilitation services -- is described in this Section.
In order to assist the States in maintaining basic vocational rehabilitation services, Section 2 of the amended Act provides that allotments to States for support of such services be based on ( 1 ) need, as measured by a State's population, and ( 2 ) fiscal capacity, as measured by its per capita income.
Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.
The basic market for textiles is growing with the expansion of the population that began 20 years ago.
Most park planners look to water frontage for basic park areas.
But it did teach Roy the basic techniques of commercial art, and later, for twelve years, he and his sister Nina conducted an advertising art studio in Philadelphia.
But the Russians use gymnastics as the first step in training for all other sports because it provides training in every basic quality except one, endurance.
Dance teachers can respond to President Kennedy's request not only through their regular dance work, but also through the kind of basic gymnastic work that makes for strength and flexibility.
The basic problem involved is that a college setting up a graduate school must have an entirely separate faculty for the advanced degree.
Because of the simplicity of the molecules, isotopic exchange reactions between elemental halogens and the corresponding carbon tetrahalides would appear to offer particularly fruitful possibilities for obtaining unambiguous basic kinetic data.
Thus, although the agenda of external assistance in the economic sphere are cumulative, and many of the policies suggested for nations in the earlier stages remain relevant, the basic purpose of American economic policy during the later stages of development should be to assure that movement into a stage of self-sustaining growth is not prevented by lack of foreign exchange.
This was not a search for a `` magic formula '', but rather an examination of basic principles pertaining especially to all types of communication in marriage.

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