The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

Philippe Kahn and the Borland board came to a disagreement on how to focus the company, and Philippe Kahn resigned as Chairman, CEO and President of Borland, a position he had held for 12 years, in January 1995.

The Ellen Austin supposedly came across a derelict ship, placed on board a prize crew, and attempted to sail with it to New York in 1881.

Ingram, older than the rest of the members of the band, left to serve active duty in Vietnam, and was later replaced by Walter " Clyde " Orange, the second lead singer who wrote or co-wrote many of their hit tunes before Lionel Richie came on board.

* 1493 – While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter ( widely distributed upon his return to Portugal ) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.

Similarly, virtually all members of LAMP have also resigned from the Louisiana Psychological Association ( LPA ) after many LPA members asserted that the LAMP's prescriptive authority movement secretly came to an agreement with Louisiana's medical board to transfer the practice of psychology for psychologists with prescriptive authority to the medical board.

According to Gould " the ideas came mostly from Niles, with yours truly acting as a sounding board and eventual scribe.

As secretary to the board, Pepys was entitled to a £ 350 annual salary plus the various gratuities and benefits – including bribes – that came with the job: he rejected an offer of £ 1000 for the position from a rival, and moved to official accommodation in Seething Lane in the City of London soon afterwards.

No one knows who made the first board ; it seems that several people came up with similar ideas at around the same time.

New Rules of Navigation that constitute an improvement over the older ones were passed by the board of directors of the Suez Canal Authority ( SCA ) to organise vessels ’ and tankers ’ transit that came into force as of 1 January 2008.

In the video Saddam's son Uday advised al-Ali about hires in Al-Jazeera: " During your last visit here along with your colleagues we talked about a number of issues, and it does appear that you indeed were listening to what I was saying since changes took place and new faces came on board such as that lad, Mansour.

Crystal came on board and made his own contributions to the screenplay, making Harry funnier.

Billy Crystal came on board when the project was called Boy Meets Girl and made his own contributions to the screenplay, making Harry funnier.

Crystal remembers saying, "' We need something for Sally to talk about ,' and Nora said, ' Well, faking orgasm is a great one ,' and right away we said, ' Well, the subject is good ,' and then Meg came on board and we talked with her about the nature of the idea and she said, ' Well, why don't I just fake one, just do one?

Skurfing is a sport that has many origins but is said to be created in Australia and New Zealand with bindingless hand shaped boards designed specifically for towing A ' skurf board ' was lent to Jeff Darby and friends in Queensland, Australia who started to make their own and who later came in contact with Tony Finn who was to later produce their brand ' Skurfer ' under royalty.

The Powers Committee ( appointed by Enron's board to look into the firm's accounting in October 2001 ) came to the following assessment: " The evidence available to us suggests that Andersen did not fulfill its professional responsibilities in connection with its audits of Enron's financial statements, or its obligation to bring to the attention of Enron's Board ( or the Audit and Compliance Committee ) concerns about Enron's internal contracts over the related-party transactions ".

This would be accomplished by placing a memory expansion card, which came with, in the expansion slot and adding another ( for a total of 384 ) kilobytes in memory chips to this board.

Whereas RS / 6000 used a mix of early POWER and PowerPC processors, when pSeries came along this had evolved into RS64-III and POWER3 across the board — POWER3 for its excellent floating-point performance and RS64 for its scalability, throughput, and integer performance.

The words first came into popular usage among computer users with the increased popularity of bulletin board systems ( BBS ), facilitated by the widespread distribution and implementation of dial-up internet access in the 1970s.

As the series developed, veteran writer Jack Mendelsohn came on board as both a story editor and scriptwriter.

Columbia Pictures originally purchased Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story, variously called The Gentleman from Montana and The Gentleman from Wyoming, as a vehicle for Ralph Bellamy, but once Frank Capra came on board as director – after Rouben Mamoulian had expressed interest – the film was to be a sequel to his Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, called Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington, with Gary Cooper reprising his role as Longfellow Deeds. Because Cooper was unavailable, Capra then " saw it immediately as a vehicle for Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur ," and Stewart was borrowed from MGM.

The order was ostensibly given because of borderline weather conditions in Washington, but according to First Lieutenant Ivan J. Potts who was on board, the order came because LeMay had one fewer general's stars and should not be seen to outperform his superior.

For hundreds of years, the evidence available consisted of ( 1 ) the captain's fragmentary journal, ( 2 ) a highly prejudiced account by one of the survivors, ( 3 ) a note found in a dead man's desk on board, and ( 4 ) several second-hand reports.

Last week the board, by a 4 to 3 vote, decided to ask voters whether they prefer the 6-3-3 ( junior high school ) system or the 8-4 system.

On June 3, 1864 Abersychan was constituted a local government district, governed by a local board.

According to the Corporate Library's study, the average size of publicly traded company's board is 9. 2 members, and most boards range from 3 to 31 members.

A recent National Association of Corporate Directors study found directors averaging just 4. 3 hours a week on board work.

* CPU: NEC version of Zilog Z80A @ 3. 58 MHz ( See chip U1, marked NEC D780C-1 in circuit board picture )

Nova 3 Printed circuit board | PCB

IETF, an international non-profit 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization that derives its support entirely from its membership and the general public, was founded in 1988 and is guided by a board of directors and a medical advisory council.

The first player places 3 stones ( 2 black 1 white, if black goes first ) on the board, the second player has the choice to take black / white or place 2 more stones to change the shape and let the first player choose color.

In October and November, she represented Hungary playing board 3 in the 34th Chess Olympiad.

The Arizona clemency board recommended a stay to the governor, on the basis of the pending ICJ case ; but the governor of Arizona ignored the recommendation and Walter LaGrand was executed on March 3, 1999.

The board agreed that, as a first step, Lyons would provide Hartree and Wilkes with £ 3, 000 funding for the EDSAC project, and would also provide them with the services of a Lyons electrical engineer, Ernest Lenaerts.

The current board consists of 43 members elected to five-year terms, 25 life members who vote until their 75th birthday, 3 elected officers ( President, Treasurer, and Secretary ), and 4 ex officio members ( the president of the alumni association, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Secretary of Education, and the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ).

They predicted that by the 300 volt shock, when the victim refuses to answer, only 3. 73 percent of the subjects would still continue and they believed that " only a little over one-tenth of one per cent of the subjects would administer the highest shock on the board.

It is important to note that the actual nut hand may not be the same as the absolute nut hand ; for example, if the board is < font color = red > 7 ♥</ font > 2 ♣ K ♠ < font color = red > K ♥ 3 ♦</ font > a player with K ♣ < font color = red > K ♦</ font > has the absolute nut hand.

He has a minimum of nine outs for certain, called nut outs, because they will make his hand the best possible: those are the < font color = red > 2 ♦</ font >, < font color = red > 3 ♦</ font >, < font color = red > 4 ♦</ font >, < font color = red > 6 ♦</ font >, < font color = red > 8 ♦</ font >, < font color = red > 9 ♦</ font >, and < font color = red > Q ♦</ font > ( which will give him an ace-high flush with no possible better hand on the board ) and the Q ♣ and < font color = red > Q ♥</ font >, which will give him an ace-high straight with no higher hand possible.

In this common variation, the start player's second move is restricted, it must be at least 3 intersections away from the center of the board.

It cost them A $ 3 million, and they received four of eight seats on the board of directors.

The official Scrabble board designKey: 2 × LS = Double letter score 3 × LS = Triple letter score 2 × WS / ★ = Double word score 3 × WS = Triple word score

It is headed by a board of directors, each of which is nominated by the membership of the SCA, selected by sitting directors, and elected to serve for 3. 5 years.

Naive counting leads to 19, 683 possible board layouts ( 3 < sup > 9 </ sup > since each of the nine spaces can be X, O or blank ), and 362, 880 ( i. e. 9!

* 3-dimensional tic-tac-toe on a 3 × 3 × 3 board, though the first player has an easy win by playing in the centre if 2 people are playing.