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By the end of the 20th century, Cambridge had one of the most expensive housing markets in the Northeastern United States.
The principal advantages of compound turbines are the reduction in size of any one casing, the confinement of the highest pressure to the smaller casing ( which may be made of stronger and more expensive materials ) and the possibility of divided flow in the low-pressure casing for the purpose of equalizing end thrusts.
Nonetheless, for many years even towards the end of the 18th century, chronometers were expensive rarities, as their adoption and use proceeded slowly due to the precision manufacturing necessary and hence high expense.
Barriers to exit are market conditions that make it difficult or expensive for a company to end its involvement with a market.
Furthermore, because of the exponential growth of the pot size in pot-limit play, seeing one of these hands to the end can be very expensive and carry immense reverse implied odds.
) As the Power Mac was originally intended to be a part of the high end of Apple's product line, for a number of years the company continued to offer less expensive 68k-based computers alongside the more expensive Power Mac lineup.
This decline reflected sluggish car sales to the United States, especially at the less expensive end of the market, and labor strife at home.
The costs of participating in the high end large boat competitions make this type of sailing one of the most expensive sports in the world.
Sometimes the instruments were operated in pairs at each end, making conversation more convenient but also more expensive.
However, this was expensive in the early days of computing, since each computer ( except for the ones at each end ) required two receivers and two transmitters.
Dilov gives reasons for the fourth safeguard in this way: " The last Law has put an end to the expensive aberrations of designers to give psychorobots as humanlike a form as possible.
In 1790 it was decided to award diplomatic medals to foreign envoys at the end of their service, as a less-extravagant version of the European custom to give diplomats expensive gifts upon their departure.
At the end of his reign the crown deficit was no greater than it had been when he succeeded Charles VIII in 1498, despite several expensive military campaigns in Italy.
Efforts by the southern communities from the late 18th century to build a number of relatively expensive construction projects along the coastline, such as a new road from Stonington Borough to Mystic and a bridge over Lambert ’ s Cove, at first led residents of the northern end of the town to oppose budgeting monies for these projects, and eventually caused the northerners to secede and form their own town.
With the end of the Cold War, the facility's mission of guarding against a Soviet air attack became superfluous, and though it briefly turned its attention toward drug interdiction, the system was decommissioned in 1997 as an expensive Cold War relic.
Soon after the end of World War I, the demand for lead ore from the Lawrence County Land & Mining Company subsided, as groundwater issues made it increasing difficult and expensive to mine.
In 1808, Lord Grey left at the end of his lease and Byron returned to live at Newstead and began extensive and expensive renovations.
Supercar is a term used most often to describe an expensive high end car.
It is also the more high end of the two, and generally the most expensive legal brothel in Nevada.
Some manufacturers use the term " superphone " for their high end phones with unusually large screens and other expensive features.
Neoclassicism and neo-Renaissance persisted in less demanding residential and office projects until 1955, when Nikita Khrushchev put an end to expensive Stalinist architecture.
At the end of the story to the court, he is asked about an expensive dagger owned by the samurai's wife: he says that, in the confusion, he forgot all about it, and that it was foolish of him to leave behind such a valuable object.
At the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy explains to Glinda that she must return home because her aunt and uncle cannot afford to go into mourning for her because it was too expensive.
The top end EDV-9500 ( EDV-9300 in Canada ) deck was a very capable editing deck, rivaling much more expensive U-Matic set-ups for its accuracy and features, but did not have commercial success due to lack of timecode and other pro features.

end and hostilities
* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.
In 389 BC he conducted a campaign in Acarnania, but two years later the Peace of Antalcidas, warmly supported by Agesilaus, put an end to hostilities.
The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, ( marking the end of hostilities in World War I ), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.
A decisive battle is one of particular importance ; often by bringing hostilities to an end, such as the Battle of Hastings or the Battle of Hattin, or as a turning point in the fortunes of the belligerents, such as the Battle of Stalingrad.
On the other side, more radical members of the party formed a Pro-Boer faction that denounced the conflict and called for an immediate end to hostilities.
Paper and ink supplies were fully restored shortly after the end of hostilities and weekly publication of The Beano and The Dandy resumed in 1949.
" The British did not know quite what to make of President Woodrow Wilson and his conviction ( before America's entrance into the war ) that the way to end hostilities was for both sides to accept " peace without victory.
These interventions were meant to put an end to democratic liberalization efforts and uprisings that had the potential to compromise Soviet hegemony inside the Eastern bloc, which was considered by the Soviets to be an essential defensive and strategic buffer in case hostilities with NATO were to break out.
In January 1944, he resumed command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ), serving in a dual role until the end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945.
Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).
The end of hostilities with Ethiopia was followed by consecutive years of drought, which together have crippled the agricultural base
In AD 114 Trajan temporarily occupied Mesopotamia, and with the end of Hadrian's 40-year peace the two powers were at almost constant hostilities.
His death in 1920 marked the end of hostilities.
After the end of hostilities, in 1988, oil exports gradually increased with the construction of new pipelines and restoration of damaged facilities.
If the case should arise, they are resolved, and prepared, to employ without delay all the forces at their command, and it is impossible to foresee the end of hostilities once engaged.
After the Partisan victory and the end of hostilities in Europe, all external forces were ordered off Yugoslav territory.
Mr. Annan concluded his report saying that " It is time, 14 years after the end of hostilities and four years after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, for all parties concerned to set aside the remaining vestiges of the past.
The extensive New Works Programme was halted by World War II, with some projects abandoned and others completed after the end of hostilities.
In November 1917, his unit was transferred to the Eastern front until the end of hostilities with Russia, and in February 1918 he was stationed in Flanders.
Gregory travelled to Pisa in order to end Pisan hostilities with Genoa so that both seaports and naval fleets could join together for the crusade.
#: Now that hostilities in Europe were at an end the Western Allies should have a greater input into the Control Commissions of Central and Eastern Europe, the Annex to this agreement included detailed changes to the workings of the Hungarian Control Commission.
At the end of hostilities in Europe in 1944-45, " victory parades " were a common feature throughout the recently liberated territories.
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years ' War, established the rule that prisoners of war should be released without ransom at the end of hostilities and that they should be allowed to return to their homelands.
On 4 May 2009, the Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmad Abdullah al-Mahmud said that Chad and Sudan had agreed to end hostilities against each other and to normalise relations Qatari mediated talks in Doha.
Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States quickly resolved to end the hostilities ; with the partitioning of the island chain at the Tripartite Convention of 1899.

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