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sometimes referred to as ' the hinge of Africa ;' throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity ; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano
The U. S. Census Bureau cites Generation X as highly educated, statistically holding the highest education levels when looking at current age groups: U. S. Census Bureau, in their 2009 Statistical Abstract.
The external debt burden, one of the highest in Europe, reached 250 % of annual export earnings, while the budget and current account deficits approached 10 % of GDP.
In an organizational structure, the Peter Principle's practical application allows assessment of the potential of an employee for a promotion based on performance in the current job ; i. e., members of an hierarchical organization eventually are promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to incompetence.
* EP points to the highest stack location used in the current procedure ( the execution pointer?
The general approach to deriving a quantum gravity theory that is valid at even the highest energy scales is to assume that such a theory will be simple and elegant and, accordingly, to study symmetries and other clues offered by current theories that might suggest ways to combine them into a comprehensive, unified theory.
The first 250 years of the current era are the period during which Roman law and Roman legal science reached the highest degree of perfection.
Directly beneath this " landed " nobility ( current and former royalty ) rank the highest awards, the Peerages.
The current standard however specifies that missing MEDs are to be treated as the highest possible value.
Any meter will load the circuit under test to some extent. For example, a microammeter with full-scale current of 50 microamps, the highest sensitivity commonly available, must draw at least 50 microamps from the circuit under test to deflect fully.
All but the most inexpensive multimeters include a fuse, or two fuses, which will sometimes prevent damage to the multimeter from a current overload on the highest current range.
Karen Black is the current and all-time highest woman in the list.
On 16 August 1960, Joseph Kittinger, in the Excelsior III test jump, set the current world record for the highest parachute jump.
During the highest tides rising water is funnelled up the estuary into a wave that travels upstream against the river current at a speed of 8 to 13 miles per hour.
According to these two principles, the energy required to release an electron is strictly greater than or equal to the potential difference between the current bound atomic or molecular orbital and the highest possible orbital.
The RUC ran at the highest frequency of any forecast model at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction ( NCEP ), assimilating recent observations to provide very high frequency updates of current conditions and short-range forecasts.
An auctioneer may announce prices, bidders may call out their bids themselves ( or have a proxy call out a bid on their behalf ), or bids may be submitted electronically with the highest current bid publicly displayed.
Sometimes the auctioneer sets a minimum amount by which the next bid must exceed the current highest bid.
The most significant distinguishing factor of this auction type is that the current highest bid is always available to potential bidders.
These awards are handed out for the highest scoring cats, across all breeds during the current show seasons.
By finishing sixth in the Western Conference, with a record of 47 – 35 ( their highest finish since the team left Buffalo ), they benefited from the current NBA playoff format of regular season records taking precedence over winning the division, and secured home court advantage over the Denver Nuggets instead of traveling to Denver for four games as a No. 6 seed would usually be expected to do.
It is high, has 50 floors, and is the highest inhabited building in the Paris area ( a title previously held by the Tour Montparnasse, which was the tallest inhabited building until the Tour First was renovated between 2007 and 2011, bringing it to its current height from a previous ; the tallest structure in Paris is the Eiffel Tower ).
South leads a spade toward the king ; if West holds the ace, the king will either win the current trick or will become the highest remaining spade and win a later one.

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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.
Shares are sold at the same price as the current cost of one share of stock in the acquired chain.
The standard example is the stock of a company, undervalued in the stock market, which is about to be the object of a takeover bid ; the price of the takeover will more truly reflect the value of the company, giving a large profit to those who bought at the current price — if the merger goes through as predicted.
< p > Men are involuntarily unemployed if, in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage, both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment.
It appears that the edict was made in an attempt to preserve the current price of gold and to keep the Empire's coinage on silver, Rome's traditional metal currency.
Of course, this allows the individual or institution the benefit of holding the asset, while reducing the risk that the future selling price will deviate unexpectedly from the market's current assessment of the future value of the asset.
Individuals and institutions may also look for arbitrage opportunities, as when the current buying price of an asset falls below the price specified in a futures contract to sell the asset.
They point out that alternative access technologies, such as wireless local loop, have proven uncompetitive and / or impractical, and that under current pricing models, the incumbent is in many cases, depending on the regulatory model, guaranteed a fair price for the use of its facilities, including an appropriate return on investment.
The conjectural assumptions of the model are ; if the firm raises its price above the current existing price, competitors will not follow and the acting firm will lose market share and second if a firm lowers prices below the existing price then their competitors will follow to retain their market share and the firm's output will increase only marginally.
) also allows a reconciliation of the horizontal demand curve facing each firm according to the theory, with the feeling of businessmen that " contrary to economic theory, sales are by no means unlimited at the current market price " ( Arrow 1959 p. 49 ).
* Chapter 57 enjoins humility on the craftsmen of the monastery, and if their work is for sale, it shall be rather below than above the current trade price.
It concludes that in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded by consumers ( at current price ) will equal the quantity supplied by producers ( at current price ), resulting in an economic equilibrium of price and quantity.
From the 1970s to 1984, however, Thailand had suffered from many economic problems-ranging from decreasing American investment, current account deficit, a sudden rise in oil price to inflation.

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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.
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.

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