The newspaper was asked to organize a competition, after which each of the successful participants was contacted and asked whether they would be prepared to undertake " a particular type of work as a contribution to the war effort ".

The defined benefit plan had been the most popular and common type of retirement plan in the United States through the 1980s ; since that time, defined contribution plans have become the more common type of retirement plan in the United States and many other western countries.

Perhaps his greatest contribution to astronomy was the development of a classification system for stars to divide them by spectral type, stage in their development, and luminosity.

The epithelium in all animals is derived from the ectoderm and endoderm with a small contribution from the mesoderm, forming the endothelium, a specialized type of epithelium that comprises the vasculature.

However, control over the type of cash crop and livestock ( and benefits derived therefrom ) tended to rest with men, even where women had made an exceptional and direct contribution to the labour involved.

Its greatest contribution refers to spreading Cyrillic type.

The amount of insurance contribution is determined by several criteria, like the region, the type of car or the personal way of driving.

The particular tax consequences of a donor's charitable contribution depends on the type of contribution that he makes.

An important contribution of new institutionalism was to add a cognitive type influence.

She is best known for her contribution to the development – jointly with Ernesto Laclau, with whom she co-authored Hegemony and Socialist Strategy-of the so-called Essex School of discourse analysis, a type of post-marxist political inquiry drawing on Gramsci, post-structuralism and theories of identity, and redefining Left politics in terms of radical democracy.

In 1984, Michael Green and John H. Schwarz realized that the anomaly in type I string theory with the gauge group SO ( 32 ) cancels because of an extra " classical " contribution from a 2-form field.

Scheidemann's lasting contribution to the organ literature, and to Baroque music in general, was in his Lutheran chorale settings, which were of three general types: cantus firmus chorale arrangements, which were an early type of chorale prelude ; " monodic " chorale arrangements, which imitated the current style of monody — a vocal solo over basso continuo — but for solo organ ; and elaborate chorale fantasias, which were a new invention, founded on the keyboard style of Sweelinck but using the full resources of the developing German Baroque organ.

The contribution of Greek to the English vocabulary can be quantified in two ways, type and token frequencies: type frequency is the proportion of distinct words ; token frequency is the proportion of words in actual texts.

The contribution of a mineral to the total magnetism of a rock depends strongly on the type of magnetic order or disorder.

Just what type of contribution counts as a valid basis for a mechanics lien varies, depending on the particular state statute that applies.

Optimising is usually carried out at the following levels: breeding strategy ( appropriate intensity of breeding, breeding population structure and size, plan for maintenance of genetic diversity ), breeding methods ( mating type, testing and selection methods, testing population size and time ) and deployment methods of the genetically improved material ( seed orchards and clonal forestry: genetic contribution, size ).

* Debt ( 30 % contribution on the FICO score )-This category considers the amount and type of debt carried by a consumer as reflected on their credit reports.

Soil type, vegetation type, and soil moisture all determine how much radiation goes into warming and how much moisture is drawn up into the adjacent atmosphere, and thus it is important to parameterize their contribution to these processes.

The remaining Segre types have no particular physical interpretation and most of them cannot correspond to any known type of contribution to the stress-energy tensor.

Lomazzo ’ s contribution to art criticism was his systematic extraction of abstract concepts from art, not merely a recounting of the marvels of verisimilitude and technique and anecdotes of the works ' reception among contemporaries of the type that Giorgio Vasari had reported in the previous generation.

Speaking as a non-Jew I believe that its primary contribution is in the realm of future policy.

It is, I insist, hard to define the Rayburn contribution to our political civilization because it is so massive and so widespread and so complicated, and because it goes so deep.

About the Pro Arte's contribution I am less happy.

In I have things to do the word things makes little real contribution to meaning and has weaker stress than do.

I hope this small pulpit might help in that endeavor to recognize Merkle's equal contribution to the invention of public key cryptography.

* 1921-Gibraltar was granted a City Council status in recognition for its contribution to the British war efforts in World War I.

Such distortions of Germanic mythology were denounced by J. R. R. Tolkien, e. g. in a 1941 letter where he speaks of Hitler's corruption of "... that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved and tried to present in its true light.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

In 1990, Vanuatu's ambassador to the United Nations Robert Van Lierop remarked proudly: " I think that Vanuatu's contribution to the United Nations is somewhat disproportionate in relation to its size.

* 1280 – King Magnus I of Sweden founds a Swedish nobility by enacting a law accepting a contribution of a cavalry-member in lieu of ordinary tax payments.

" I fail to see how this lot will make a positive contribution to the future of Dutch music ".

GEC's history of military products dates back to World War I with its contribution to the war effort then including radios and bulbs.

An exception to this was the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical: when Of Thee I Sing won in 1932, book authors George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, as well as lyricist Ira Gershwin, were cited as the winners, while composer George Gershwin's contribution was overlooked by the committee.

Hitler went on to castigate the Navy, saying that Navy had done nothing in the wars of unification, that the High Seas Fleet " played no important role in the World War " and lacked "... men of action who were determined to fight with or without the Kaiser ", that the Navy were a nest of traitors whose only contribution to World War I was the High Seas Fleet mutiny of 1918, and that given this history, it was no surprise that the Navy's record in World War Two with the notable exception of the U-boats was one of failure after failure.

He was a strong supporter of Australia's participation in World War I, and after a visit to Britain in 1916 he became convinced that conscription was necessary if Australia was to sustain its contribution to the war effort.

Participation in a variety of events continued until World War I, but it was in 1912 that Peugeot made its most notable contribution to motor sporting history when one of their cars, driven by Georges Boillot, won the French Grand Prix at Dieppe.

BBC7 showcased his contribution to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue – in the week of the 10th anniversary of his death – by rebroadcasting five episodes of the show, one on each weekday night ( 11 – 15 December 2006 ).

Historians and economists consider the GI Bill a major political success — especially in contrast to the treatments of World War I veterans — and a major contribution to America's stock of human capital that sped long-term economic growth.

The first member of the House of Capet to make a lasting contribution to the centralising institutions of royal power, Louis was born in Paris, the son of Philip I and his first wife, Bertha of Holland.

Pope Gregory I, who gave his name to the musical repertory and may himself have been a composer, is usually claimed to be the originator of the musical portion of the liturgy in its present form, though the sources giving details on his contribution date from more than a hundred years after his death.

Erhard wrote, “ I would like to frankly acknowledge that my own contribution to this effort social market economy -- R. P. would not have been possible without Walter Eucken, Franz Bohm, Wilhem Ropke, Alexander Rustow, F. A. von Hayek, Alfred Muller-Armack, and many others who joined me in thinking and debating ”.

" Regardless of the pros and cons of Solid Rock and all the stories that swirl around Larry Norman, I do think he's made an immensely valuable, foundational contribution to the whole contemporary Christian music industry ... and I don't understand how someone that everyone nods towards and acknowledges as seminal ends up apparently scrabbling to pay for medical bills.

Mucha's style was given international exposure by the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris, of which Mucha said, " I think Exposition Universelle made some contribution toward bringing aesthetic values into arts and crafts.