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.

The circumpolar current merges the waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans and carries up to 150 times the volume of water flowing in all of the world's rivers.

After studying the circumpolar current it is clear that it strongly influences regional and global climate as well as underwater biodiversity.

The right ascension of any object crossing the meridian is equal to the current local ( apparent ) sidereal time, ignoring for present purposes that part of the circumpolar region north of the north celestial pole ( for an observer in the northern hemisphere ) or south of the south celestial pole ( for an observer in the southern hemisphere ) that is crossing the meridian the other way.

Following the emergence of the circumpolar current in the mid-Oligocene era ( some 15 MYA ), the Australian climate became increasingly arid, giving rise to a diverse group of arid-specialised organisms, just as the wet tropical and seasonally wet areas gave rise to their own uniquely adapted species.

Fred and Ralph qualified as executors and paid off what debts were currently due, and they were all current, since Papa was never one to allow bills to go unpaid.

An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, that is used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the vessel from drifting due to wind or current.

Since one fluke always protrudes up from the set anchor, there is a great tendency of the rode to foul the anchor as the vessel swings due to wind or current shifts.

If there is much current, or the vessel is moving while dropping the anchor, it may " kite " or " skate " over the bottom due to the large fluke area acting as a sail or wing.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

Flicker noise arises from a variety of sources, such as impurities in a conductive channel, generation and recombination noise in a transistor due to base current, and so on.

No consistent investigation has been put forth against the violent protesters, mainly due to the difficulties encountered in identification of the many masked protesters and the fierce opposition at Congress held by most of the left-wing parties, such as the Communist Party and current PM Romano Prodi's Union coalition.

Mainly due to reunification-related expenditures, Berlin as a German state has accumulated more debt than any other city in Germany, with the most current estimate being € 60 ($ 84 ) bn in December 2007.

One clade, formed by B. anthracis, B. cereus, B. mycoides, B. pseudomycoides, B. thuringiensis and B. weihenstephanensis under current classification standards, should be a single species ( within 97 % 16S identity ), but due to medical reasons, they are considered separate species, an issue also present for four species of Shigella and Escherichia coli.

In the current cosmological epoch, the accelerated expansion due to dark energy is preventing structures larger than superclusters from forming.

The current 4-time champion is Adrian Conradi ; however, due to his return to Canada a new champion will be declared.

When South America became attached to North America creating the Isthmus of Panama, the Arctic region cooled due to the strengthening of the Humboldt and Gulf Stream currents, eventually leading to the glaciations of the Pleistocene ice age, the current interglacial of which is the Holocene Epoch.

In other conductive materials, the electric current is due to the flow of both positively and negatively charged particles at the same time.

In still others, the current is entirely due to positive charge flow.

Even with no external electric field applied, these electrons move about randomly due to thermal energy but, on average, there is zero net current within the metal.

In a semiconductor it is sometimes useful to think of the current as due to the flow of positive " holes " ( the mobile positive charge carriers that are places where the semiconductor crystal is missing a valence electron ).

This is due to the resulting internal field and corresponding potential barrier which inhibit current flow in reverse applied bias which increases the internal depletion layer field.

However, to the best of our knowledge, the electron's magnetic moment is not due to a current loop, but is instead an intrinsic property of the electron.

No current agreement exists on how many of the evacuees met the criteria to be an Ilois, and thus be an indigenous person at the time of their removal, but the UK and Mauritian governments agreed in 1972 that 426 families, numbering 1, 151 individuals were due compensation payments as exiled Ilois.

In general, the Internet tends to provide more current coverage than print media, due to the ease with which material on the Internet can be updated.

In May 2007, it was decided that the ending of a current storyline featuring characters of Dawn Swann, Dr. May Wright and Rob Minter would be substantially rewritten due to the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann.

The Minister of Industry indicated that if due diligence were performed by the investors and the banks, the current laws governing business contracts in the UK offered sufficient protection for the public and the banks.

Voltage decreases as current increases, due to several factors: