Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

On August 12, 2010 GM announced that Whitacre would relinquish the CEO position effective September 1, 2010 and that of Chairman of the Board at the end of the year, to be replaced in those functions by current board member Dan Akerson.

Billionaire Nelson Peltz initiated a proxy battle during 2006, culminating in a vote to place Peltz's nominees on the Board, which, depending on how many seats the dissident group received after the final vote tally, would displace some of the current board members.

Current space vehicles attempt to launch with all their fuel ( propellants and energy supplies ) on board that they will need for their entire journey, and current space structures are lifted from the Earth's surface.

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 ).

The current board of directors of the Mars Society includes Robert Zubrin ( chairman ), James Heiser, and Declan O ' Donnell.

This selection is often limited to holes on the current player's side of the board, as well as holes with a certain minimum number of seeds.

The current Open Source Initiative board is:

For example, if the board is, and the player has, then not only do they have the current nuts ( their ace-king makes the broadway straight ), but they also have a redraw with the two queens in their hand because if the board pairs, they will make queens full, or four queens.

This data is analyzed on board or at a remote location by computer to evaluate its current serviceability and increasingly its likely future state using algorithms which predict potential future failures based on previous examples of failure through field experience and modeling.

This is usually a large conductor attached to one side of the power supply ( such as the " ground plane " on a printed circuit board ) which serves as the common return path for current from many different components in the circuit.

The game's current equipment consists of a board which shows the rooms, corridors and secret passages of an English country house called Tudor Mansion, although previously named variously as Tudor Close or Tudor Hall, and in some editions Boddy Manor or Boddy Mansion.

The current board chair is Kenneth W. Jenkins ( D ).

The current ( 2012 ) board consists of David Levy, Tony Corfe and Etan Ilfeld.

The current chair of the city board is Aleksi Randell from Kokoomus.

All board members are current residents of the United States.

Other current board members include Kenneth Adelman, Farooq Kathwari, Azar Nafisi, Mark Palmer, P. J. O ' Rourke, and Lawrence Lessig, while past board-members have included Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Samuel Huntington, Mara Liasson, Otto Reich, Donald Rumsfeld, Whitney North Seymour, Paul Wolfowitz, Steve Forbes, and Bayard Rustin.

Hoover's reasons for his surprising reorganization of the RFC included: the broken health and resignations of Eugene Meyer, Paul Bestor, and Charles Gates Dawes ; the failure of banks to perform their duties to their clientele or to aid American industry ; the country's general lack of confidence in the current board ; and Hoover's inability to find any other man who had the ability and was both nationally respected and available.

Codes identifying the board and the current version number can be etched.

The current board members by district are:

The current board is chaired by Josu Urrutia Tellería, consultant by profession, whose candidacy was successful during the election in July 2011, succeeding under the previous president, Fernando García Macua.

The deal was made and executed by the current board of trustees of the Greater Boston YMCA and Northeastern University Corporation, with the support of the mayor of Boston Tom Menino and City C. Mike Ross.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.

It follows that the solution to the current disunity of the free nations is only to a very limited extent a matter of devising new machinery of consultation and coordination.

With our current $3 per hundred tax rate, it is safe to assume that this will qualify when you suggest a community should `` try to develop a modest industrial plant '' as the best way to meet these problems.

In this hour of crisis, the wisdom, the dedication, the stabilizing force that he represents in current American government is an almost indispensable source of strength.

Borrowing in anticipation of current taxes and other revenues is a routine procedure of the majority of municipalities at all times.

This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.

Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.

However, its modern one-story layout is designed to increase our production capacity, permit more efficient manufacturing, and substantially reduce current repair and maintenance costs.

Of current interest is Abilene, Kansas, the birthplace of ex-President Eisenhower.

Considering that the current school-age potential is 23 million youths, the project and its message on hunting and shooting education have many more to reach.

There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.

The pressure gradient producing the jet is due to the nature of the magnetic field in the arc ( rapid decrease of current density from cathode to the anode ).

That we are experiencing an upsurge of interest in the many formulations and preventive adaptations of brief treatment in social casework is evident from even a small sampling of current literature.

It is still used in making current population estimates in post-census years, though the value of these estimates is open to question.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

Moreover, the current information on what types of training are needed and possible is too limited and fragmentary.

This is not extended to anticipated levels of GNP, however -- only the current level of GNP affects the public pressure against wage-price increases.

electricity plays such an important part in community life today that it is difficult to envision a time when current was not available for daily use.

It is to be hoped that some way will be found to keep this important work current.

In general, P is a function of V and the current density, but it shall here be assumed as a constant.

The operator must continually supply the correct amount of turning current to the gyro torquers so that the effect of gyro drift is canceled.

If the Z gyro is drifting, a current generated by the autocollimator is delivered to the gyro torquer to cancel the drift.