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The chief disadvantage of conformal coatings is that servicing of the board is rendered extremely difficult.
The chief disadvantage is that it must be inserted and then travel through a relatively small peripheral vein which can take a less predictable course on the way to the superior vena cava and is therefore somewhat more time consuming and more technically difficult to place in some patients.
They all possessed one chief disadvantage, however: regardless of the process used, they rendered the plate extremely slow.
The chief disadvantage of the four-seamer is its lack of break.
The chief disadvantage of the Plössl optical design is short eye relief compared to an orthoscopic since the Plössl eye relief is restricted to about 70 – 80 % of focal length.
The chief disadvantage of such a scheme lies in duplication of virtual circuits: a host must create a separate virtual circuit for each high-level protocol if more than one protocol is used.
The chief disadvantage of stairstep breakaway plans is the tendency for inventory loading.
Its chief disadvantage is that parallel construction of the kd-tree may be difficult, and traversal requires expensive branch instructions.
The chief disadvantage of a metal money clip is that, due to the inflexibility of the metal, it cannot typically hold large amounts of cash.

chief and is
A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.
Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.
It is the chief merit in Copernicus' work that all his planetary calculations are interdependent.
Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
Next to it is a copper section, with cooking utensils and a figure of the chief cook in an elaborate, floor-length robe.
The chief experience is the sensing of communion, and in the higher religions, of a harmonious relationship with the supernatural power.
As Loomis remarks, `` In the internal pattern the chief reason for interacting is to communicate liking, friendship, and love among those who stand in supporting relations to one another and corresponding negative sentiments to those who stand in antagonistic relations ''.
`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.
This serious condition, popularly known as pyorrhea, is one of the chief causes of tooth loss in adults.
One of the chief features of this community of interest is the automotive patents cross-licensing agreement, a milestone in the development of American industrial cooperation.
Jerome Leavitt, a partner in the Union Liquor company, 3247 S. Kedzie Av., Dominic Senese, a teamster union slugger who is a buddy of Stein and a cousin of Tony Accardo, onetime gang chief ; ;
They know it is the chief ingredient in gallstones.
Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.
His chief motivation for enrolling at Hanford is the desire to '' --
The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.
An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.
Odin is the chief of Asagarth.
In 1541, he received Bayreuth as his share of the family lands, but, as the chief town of his principality was Kulmbach, he is sometimes referred to as the Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.
) where each of them is declared to be the chief in some quality, Ānanda is mentioned five times ( more often than any other ).

chief and cost
Some Afghan groups ( including the former intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh and opposition leader Dr. Abdullah Abdullah ) believe that Karzai plans to appease the insurgents ' senior leadership at the cost of the democratic constitution, the democratic process and progress in the field of human rights especially women's rights.
It became the chief defense of Charles against assaults upon those usurpations which cost him his life.
The chief economic problem is in fact using up the economic surplus: many high-quality goods actually cost less than those of lower quality.
In 1927, because of cost and technical restrictions, Disney and his chief animator Ub Iwerks decided to end their work on the Alice Comedies series in search of new creative opportunities.
* Salim ( Sandy ) Bonnor Lewis, born January 27, 1939, moved with his family to Essex in 1980, an American investment banker, arbitrageur, merger-maker, founded in 1980 a general partnership, S B Lewis & Company, a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, originated and closed, negotiating for both sides, the tax free merger of American Express and Shearson Loeb Rhodes, received a presidential pardon from President Clinton on his last day in office-the only pardon of an NYSE member firm chief executive in Wall Street history, see http :// sblewis. net, known for litigation that forced the Adirondack Park Agency to contribute $ 71, 690. 28 to the farm's litigation cost for government behavior deemed unworthy by Acting Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Meyer in a series of decisions now bedrock in New York State law that allows a farm within the park to build to house farm workers without Park Agency involvement.
The chief steward also plans menus ; compiles supply, overtime, and cost control records.
However, dozens of garment factories also opened ; clothing manufacture became the island's chief economic force, employing thousands of foreign contract laborers while labeling their goods " made in the U. S. A ." and supplying the U. S. market with low cost garments exempt from U. S. tariffs.
A chief practice of technological development is the codification of tacit knowledge into explicit programmed operations so that processes previously requiring skilled employees can be automated for greater efficiency and consistency at lower cost.
His chief aim was to cut spending and reduce imports, however, this came at a cost as unemployment increased sharply.
G4S's chief, Nick Buckles recounted the events of the failed acquisition, which cost the company tens of millions of dollars, as "... one of the most bruising experiences of my life ".
Henry employed master mason Henry de Rayns and chief carpenter Simon of Northampton for the project, and the cost of the tower accounted for the majority of the overall expenditure on the castle during this period of work.
Construction on the bridge, the second to cross this river, began in 1896, with Leffert L. Buck as chief engineer, Henry Hornbostel as architect and Holton D. Robinson as assistant engineer, and the bridge opened on December 19, 1903 at a cost of $ 24, 200, 000.
Despite the efforts of Oldsmobile and General Motors styling chief Bill Mitchell to put the car on the smaller A-body intermediate, they were overruled for cost reasons.
Checkland joined the BBC in 1964 as a senior cost accountant and in 1969 he was promoted to be head of the Central Finance Unit and chief accountant for Central Finance Services.
Among the five economists was Toronto-Dominion Bank chief economist Don Drummond, who also wrote a private letter to Baird arguing that the " economic cost implementing Kyoto would be at least as deep as the recession in the early 1980s.
According to the article about Gros in the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, 1911, these three subjects – the popular leader facing the pestilence unmoved, challenging the splendid instant of victory, heart-sick with the bitter cost of a hard-won field – gave Gros his chief title to fame.
As studio chief, she focused on bottom-line cost rather than market share, preferring to take fewer risks and make lower-budget films than other studios.
chief of this Sept at the proper cost of Sabina O ' Dallachain on the condition that she should have it for her lifetime and afterwards each of her sons according to their seniority ".
On July 6, 2010, Saudi newspapers quoted King Fahd Causeway Authority chief Bader Abdullah Al-Otaishan as saying that the King Fahd Causeway was to undergo a major expansion projected to cost $ 5. 3 million.
Although limited in tone by comparison, Cinecolor's chief advantages over Technicolor were that color rushes were available within 24 hours, that the process itself only cost 25 percent more than black-and-white photography ( the price grew cheaper as larger amounts of Cinecolor film stock were bought ), and could be used in modified black-and-white cameras.
After the race Said claimed that he was not mad at Ambrose, but wanted to apologize to ( Ambrose's ) crew chief because it was going to " cost him a car ," implying that Said will wreck Ambrose intentionally next time they find themselves on a NASCAR track together.
After a campaign which cost over $ 10, 000 and was managed by Grover Norquist, Abramoff won the election after the chief competitor, Amy Moritz ( who later, as Amy Ridenour, became a founding director of the National Center for Public Policy Research, and was involved in several trips funded by Jack Abramoff ), was persuaded to drop out.
According to Motor Trend, this action reportedly caused project cost overruns and resulted in the departure of Wolfgang Peter, Daimler-Benz's chief engineer.
After Independence, the then chief minister C. N. Annadurai launched a Cooum Improvement Scheme at a cost of 19 million in September 1967, six months after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( DMK ) party came to power for the first time in the state, when M. Karunanidhi was PWD minister.

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