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exchange and was
That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.
Of several methods employed for tagging chlorine with radiochlorine, the exchange of inactive chlorine with tagged aluminum chloride at room temperature was found to be the most satisfactory.
Previously purified chlorine was subsequently admitted and the exchange was allowed to take place.
The fraction of exchange was determined as the ratio of the counts / minute observed in the carbon tetrachloride to the counts / minute calculated for the carbon tetrachloride fractions for equilibrium distribution of the activity between the chlorine and carbon tetrachloride, empirically determined correction being made for the difference in counting efficiency of Af in Af and Af.
The liquid phase photochemical exchange between chlorine and carbon tetrachloride was more reproducible than the thermal exchange, although still erratic.
In all cases there was readily measurable exchange after as little as one hour of illumination.
-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.
In an earlier case, Kingan & Co. v. United States, an American corporation was formed for the purpose of acquiring the stock of a British corporation in exchange for its own stock and then liquidating the British corporation.
In 1932 Dorset received its own exchange, which made business easier for the Manchester office, but it was not until February 1953 that area service was extended to include Manchester and Dorset.
By that time it was commonly agreed that patent warfare was sapping constructive achievement and blocking the free exchange of technical information.
Man was created with the capacity for immortality, but the devil's promise of immortality in exchange for disobedience cost Adam his immortality.
Further separation was carried out by ion exchange, yielding a certain isotope of curium.
During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia ’ s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.
The property was wholly disencumbered in 1847 by Robert Cadell, the publisher, who cancelled the bond upon it in exchange for the family's share in the copyright of Sir Walter's works.
Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.
In exchange for this support, Amyntas granted them rights to Macedonian timber, which was sent back to Athens to help fortify their fleet.
In the 2001 NFL Draft, the Falcons orchestrated a trade with the San Diego Chargers, acquiring the first overall pick ( which was used on quarterback Michael Vick ) in exchange for wide receiver / return specialist Tim Dwight and the fifth overall pick ( used on running back LaDainian Tomlinson ).
Thus, ATP was a simple request / response exchange, with no need to set up or tear down connections.

exchange and almost
* Native claims to almost all of Alaska were extinguished in exchange for approximately one-ninth of the state's land plus $ 962. 5 million in compensation distributed to 200 local village and 12 Native-owned regional corporations, plus a thirteenth corporation comprising Alaska Natives who had left the state.
The Bahamian economy is almost entirely dependent on tourism and financial services to generate foreign exchange earnings.
Exports are almost entirely agricultural commodities, with coffee as the largest foreign exchange earner, and its flower industry becoming a new source of revenue: for 2005 / 2006 ( the latest year available ) Ethiopia's coffee exports represented 0. 9 % of the world exports, and oilseeds and flowers each representing 0. 5 %.
In September 1979, the civilian government of Hilla Limann inherited declining per capita income ; stagnant industrial and agricultural production due to inadequate imported supplies ; shortages of imported and locally produced goods ; a sizable budget deficit ( almost 40 % of expenditures in 1979 ); high inflation, " moderating " to 54 % in 1979 ; an increasingly overvalued cedi ; flourishing smuggling and other black-market activities ; unemployment and underemployment, particularly among urban youth ; deterioration in the transport network ; and continued foreign exchange constraints.
A compulsory population exchange was agreed between the two countries, with over 1. 5 million Christians and almost half a million Muslims being uprooted.
Triggered by the collapse of the second largest bank, GDP plunged by almost 18 % in 2009, and the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and other international donors provided substantial financial assistance to Latvia as part of an agreement to defend the currency's peg to the euro in exchange for the government's commitment to stringent austerity measures.
The European nations had all but exhausted their foreign exchange reserves during the war, and the Marshall Plan aid represented almost their sole means of importing goods from abroad.
The physical properties of the interface between the trapped air bubble and surrounding water accomplish gas exchange through the spiracles, almost as if the insect were in atmospheric air.
Today, almost all significant exchange points operate solely over Ethernet, and most of the largest exchange points offer ten gigabit Ethernet ( 10, 000 Mbit / s ) service.
It is almost always disadvantageous to exchange the queen for a single piece other than the enemy's queen.
The Cree were almost out of ammunition, and were forced to flee after a short exchange of fire and the release of their hostages.
In an interview for Musicians Hotline, Jim Marshall said " So many players came to my < center > Jonas with his brolly </ center > Hanwell shop, it was almost like a rock and roll labor exchange because a lot of groups were formed there ".
However, the almost non-existent property values were judged to be a fair exchange and so the workers started living and settling in the area around the sawmill, and Lillestrøm was born.
Modern social democracy can also be considered " state capitalism " because the means of production are almost universally the private property of business owners, and production is carried out for exchange rather than directly for use.
By the start of World War II, the Big Four zaibatsu alone had direct control over more than 30 % of Japan's mining, chemical, metals industries and almost 50 % control of the machinery and equipment market, a significant part of the foreign commercial merchant fleet and 60 % of the commercial stock exchange.
In September 2004, a program encouraged al-Madhi members in Sadr city to exchange their guns into authorities for a financial compensation, and the slum was almost fully pacified.
Another longer-term result was the changing relationship between the U. S. and Japan, with the U. S. no longer openly supporting the highly artificial trade environment and exchange rates that governed economic relations between the two countries for almost five decades after World War II.
The post-war management faced many problems, including lack of records which had almost all been destroyed by the Japanese and had to be reconstructed from the memories of serving and previous staff ; shortages of coal for the engines necessitating their conversion to burning fuel oil ; currency exchange rate difficulties due to devaluation of the Chinese currency requiring agreement with the Chinese authorities to use the Hong Kong dollar as the basis for all transactions ; worn out equipment and staff shortages.
The treaty was followed by a mandatory population exchange: about 110, 000 Romanians ( almost 95 % of which settled there after 1913 ) were forced to leave Southern Dobruja, whereas 77, 000 Bulgarians had to leave northern Dobruja.
Most modern stories indicate that the exchange is performed as a means of vengeance, and it is almost never depicted as a generous act.
We know that in Ireland there was almost no supervision of the large banks .” Two months later, EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso in an angry exchange in the European Parliament, with a vehemence that shocked his audience, said that " the problems of Ireland were created by the irresponsible financial behaviour of some Irish institutions, and by the lack of supervision in the Irish market.
boson interactions involving neutrinos have distinctive signatures: They provide the only known mechanism for elastic scattering of neutrinos in matter ; neutrinos are almost as likely to scatter elastically ( via boson exchange ) as inelastically ( via boson exchange ).

exchange and bed
The trade offered by Rachel is for Leah to spend that night in Jacob's bed in exchange for Leah's.
They exchange words: whereupon the good woman, apprehending the circumstances, gets her to bed with her daughter, and by divers apt words re-establishes perfect accord.
A capillary bed can consist of two types of vessels: true capillaries which branch mainly from metarterioles and provide exchange between cells and the circulation.
In Seán Ó Seanacháin's song An Buachaill Caol Dubh, Aoibheal appears to a young couple and offers the man a hundred Fairy servants if he will renounce his mortal lover in exchange for the bed of Aoibheal herself.
Then the Tzar becomes ill and the soldier, seeing Death at the head of his bed, makes a bargain with Death: his life in exchange for the Tzar's.
The two had to be resident for at least 21 days to be married and so Dibnah agreed to point the gable ends of a local hotel in exchange for bed and board.
A document from the seventeenth century entitled " Advice for the Conclavist " describes the duties and rewards of the practice: conclavists were expected to care for the physical needs of the cardinal elector ( e. g. making his bed and warming his food ), gather information, spread disinformation, carry a heavy purse for distributing funds to minor conclave servants in exchange for information, possess wine and food in his cell for entertaining, and carry disguises for himself and his boss so they could move from cell to cell unrecognized.
Sigmund being of the Völsung line, Signý believes her brother will produce a son worthy of claiming a place in that line, and one night she " exchange shape " with a völva, goes to Sigmund in his underground dwelling, and spends three nights in his bed with Sigmund unaware that she is his sister in another form.
He will help Uther bed Igraine, in exchange for guardianship of the child born from the union, and for the Duke and his men to be spared.
( He later refers to this as being, " Kung-fued by a naked ninja " ) His bed is now occupied by a foreign exchange student from Tonga.
Also possible are ion exchange chromatography, reversed-phase chromatography ( RP ), affinity chromatography or expanded bed adsorption ( EBA ).
After his release in exchange for 15 imprisoned leftists, Ambassador Elbrick coolly remarked, “ Being an ambassador is not always a bed of roses .”

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