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The Low Pay Commission found that, rather than make employees redundant, employers have reduced their rate of hiring, reduced staff hours, increased prices, and have found ways to cause current workers to be more productive ( especially service companies ).
The Seventeen Provinces were a personal union of states in the Low Countries in the 15th century and 16th century, roughly covering the current Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, a good part of the North of France ( Artois, French Flanders ), and a small part of Western Germany.
To distinguish between the older and larger Low Countries of the Netherlands from the current country of the Netherlands, Dutch speakers usually drop the plural for the latter.
The current city was expanded in 1814 by the King of Naples Joachim Murat, and lies on the Campo Basso (" Low field ").
Low dark current at room temperature.
The language originally spoken in East Frisia and Groningen was Frisian, so the current Low Saxon dialects build on a Frisian substrate, which has led to a large amount of unique lexical, syntactic, and phonological items which differ from other Low Saxon variants.
The word " Walloon " thus came closer to its current meaning: the vernacular of the Roman part of the Low Countries.
The core of the early town appears to have lain around what is now the Laigh Kirk, Kilmarnock ( Low Church ), although the oldest parts of the current building are no earlier than the 17th century, extending north and northwest.
Low current densities produce spectral line emission, against a faint background of continuous radiation.
Low current densities produce a greenish-blue flash, indicating the absence of significant yellow or orange lines.
Low current densities for flashtubes are generally less than 1000 A / cm < sup > 2 </ sup >.
It was recommended in a September 2009 Task Force report to remove the Low and Guarded conditions from the Alert System altogether and set Yellow ( Elevated ) to " Guarded " as the new baseline of the system, without changing the baseline conditions issued when under Yellow in the current system.
The current slogan is " Get Real, Low Prices ".
The current Low King, or possibly Queen, of the dwarfs.
Low pollution / slow combustion stoves are a current area of research.
Heading into 2001, the Marlins bumped Cabrera up to the Low Class-A Kane County Cougars where he teamed up with current Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez.
VTA's current busses includes, but not limited to: Gillig Phantom, Gillig Low Floor ( standard, shortened, and hybrid ), Chevy-chasis community bus, and New Flyer D60LF.
The Supersonic Low Altitude Missile or SLAM ( not to be confused with the U. S. Navy's current Standoff Land Attack Missile ) was a canceled U. S. Air Force project conceived around 1955.
Low current wiring is particularly susceptible to ground loops.
The current model from Nova Bus is the Low Floor Series ( LFS ), offered in three types: the LFS ( rigid ), LFS Artic ( articulated ), and the LFX ( articulated for BRT applications ).
As described by George Low in the April 1896 Journal of Electricity, Eastwood employed the nascent technology of long-distance alternating current power transmission in creating a hydroelectric power system for the Fresno area.
In the 1891 census Low Coniscliffe included Coniscliffe Grange, Dublar Castle and East Farm, and there was a Badle Beck Inn which is probably the current Baydale Beck Inn.
Low heat input, caused by low welding current or high welding speed, can limit penetration and cause the weld bead to lift away from the surface being welded.

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On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII abdicated his rights to the Spanish throne in favour of his third ( of four ), but second-surviving, son Juan, father of the current King, Juan Carlos.
* Infante Juan Carlos Teresa Silvestre Alfonso of Spain ( 1913 – 1993 ), named heir to the throne and Count of Barcelona, whose son is the current King, Juan Carlos I of Spain.
* Alfonso of Spain, younger brother of current reigning King Juan Carlos of Spain.
Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).
The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.
The current King, Bhumibol Adulyadej, is the longest reigning current monarch in the world and in all of Thailand's history.
Except for the House of Braganza ( founded by an illegitimate son of King John I of Portugal, who was himself illegitimate ), all current major Capetian branches are of the Bourbon cadet branch.
The French Revolution was a time of upheaval, especially towards traditional ideology, in almost every sense: the current monarch, King Louis XVI, was executed ; the Catholic Church was all but abolished ; a new calendar was created ; and a new Republican government was established.
The words and title are adapted to the gender of the current monarch, e. g., replacing " Queen " with " King ", " she " with " he ", and so forth, when a king reigns.
* World's longest serving current head of state: King Rama IX of Thailand ( since 9 June 1946: ()).
Duke Frederick II and Conrad, the two current male Staufer, by their mother Agnes were grandsons of late Emperor Henry IV and nephews of Henry V. Frederick attempted to succeed to the throne of the Holy Roman Emperor ( formally known as the King of the Romans ) through a customary election, but lost to the Saxon duke Lothair of Supplinburg.
Relations have cooled since the current King of Jordan took office in 2000, but remain good.
Franz, Duke of Bavaria is the current heir general of King Charles I and so the present heir to the Jacobite claim.
The current position of the Roman Catholic Church is that the medieval persecution of the Knights Templar was unjust, that nothing was inherently wrong with the Order or its Rule, and that Pope Clement was pressed into his actions by the magnitude of the public scandal and by the dominating influence of King Philip IV, who was Clement's relative.
* the Order of the Elephant, which may have been first founded by Christian I of Denmark, but was founded in its current form by King Christian V in 1693
After several attempts and hardships, ACS representatives in December 1821 succeeded, perhaps with some threat of force ( see American Colonization Society ), to buy Cape Mesurado, a 36-mile long strip of land near current day Monrovia, from the indigenous ruler King Peter.
In a current edition of Matheson's The Shrinking Man, King is quoted: " A horror story if there ever was one ... a great adventure story — it is certainly one of that select handful that I have given to people, envying them the experience of the first reading.
The winner of the Crown Tournament and his / her Consort are styled " Crown Prince and Princess " and serve an advisory period ( three to six months, depending upon the scheduling of the Crown Tournament ) under the current King and Queen prior to acceding to the throne and ruling in their turn.
It is also used by almost all current translations of the Bible, including the New King James Version, the New American Standard Bible, and the New International Version.
Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.
It was originally named after King Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway and received its current name in 1939.
The current monarch, Carl XVI Gustaf would be able to use the same title, but chose his royal title to be simply King of Sweden ( Sveriges Konung ), thereby changing an age-old tradition.

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