Mr. Reama, who retired as vice president of the American Screw Co. in 1955 said, `` Both parties in the last election told us that we need a five per cent growth in the gross national product -- but neither told us how to achieve it ''.

Ballots are manually counted by the five vocales, after the table has closed, at least eight hours after opening, and the counting witnessed by representatives of all the parties who choose to have observers.

The PUSC also obtained 27 seats in the 57-member Legislative Assembly, for a plurality, while the PLN got 23 and five minor parties won seven.

In that election five regionalist parties got seats: the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) of Northern Ireland, the Scottish National Party ( SNP ), the Flemish People's Union ( VU ), the Walloon Democratic Front of Francophones ( FDF ) and the South Tyrolean People's Party ( SVP ).

He created a system of " parties " called the brigade system, which separated the professional kitchen into five separate stations.

This rule, often called the " five percent hurdle ", was incorporated into Germany's election law to prevent political fragmentation and strong minor parties.

Conflict broke out between the French and the indigenous islanders in November 1649 and fighting lasted for five years until 1654, when the last opposition to the French on Grenada was crushed-although the island continued for some time after to suffer raids by war canoe parties from St. Vincent, who had aided the local Grenadan islanders in their struggle and continued to oppose the French.

Elagabalus was married as many as five times, lavished favors on male courtiers popularly thought to have been his lovers, employed a prototype of whoopee cushions at dinner parties, and was reported to have prostituted himself in the imperial palace.

These elections resulted in five parties reaching the 5 % threshold necessary to enter parliament.

As of 25 October, the five successful parties were continued negotiations on the formation of a governing coalition.

Sharman and the other five parties faced paying millions of dollars in damages to the record labels that instigated the legal action.

After talks, on 4 March 2009 five parties confirmed their participation in the coalition: New Era, People's Party, Union of Greens and Peasants, For Fatherland and Freedom / LNNK, and Civic Union.

Election results showed that the ruling government suffered a setback when it failed to obtain two-thirds majority in parliament, and five out of 12 state legislatures were won by the opposition parties.

Lipponen formed a cabinet of five parties including both rightist and leftist parties.

Although five candidates announced their intention to run, the three representing minor parties ( Benny Begin of Herut – The National Movement, Azmi Bishara of Balad and Yitzhak Mordechai of the Centre Party ) dropped out before election day, and Ehud Barak beat Netanyahu in the election.

As of 2011 only the five government parties were represented in the Council of States.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

In these, the effective number of parties is greater than two but usually fewer than five ; in a two-party system, the effective number of parties is two ( according to one analysis, the actual average number of parties varies between 1. 7 and 2. 1.

That year, he was supported by five political parties: the Centre Party, the Social Democrats, the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders ( a short-lived SDP faction ), the Finnish People's Democratic League ( a communist front ), and the Swedish People's Party.

Following the 23 October 1991 Final Act of the International Paris Conference on Cambodia among the Cambodian parties, Indonesia ( as co-chair with France ), and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Japan promptly established diplomatic relations and ended economic restrictions with Cambodia and Vietnam.

In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.

The Muslims and Christians were organized into separate communities, each having its own leader ; five leaders represented the village in the mid-16th century, three of whom were Muslims.

Based on Dravidian architecture, it was designed as a pyramid representing the structure of the universe: the highest level at the center of the temple represented Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu gods, with the five towers on the highest level representing the five peaks of the mountain.

Ten families of crocodilians or their close relatives are represented in the Maastrichtian fossil records, of which five died out prior to the K – T boundary.

In 1992, the NFL released the list of five areas open to a potential NFL team: Baltimore, Maryland ; St. Louis, Missouri ; Memphis, Tennessee ; Jacksonville, Florida ; and the Carolinas, represented by Charlotte.

Some have held that a council is ecumenical only when all five patriarchs of the Pentarchy are represented at it.

The group pledged $ 407, 225, including a $ 100, 000 gift by Milwaukee real estate developer Joseph Zilber, for purchase of Dahmer's estate ; five of the eight families represented by Jacobson agreed to the terms, and Dahmer's possessions were destroyed and buried in an undisclosed Illinois landfill.

Iambic pentameter, a common meter in English poetry, is based on a normative sequence of five iambic feet or iambs, each consisting of a relatively unstressed syllable ( here represented with "×" above the syllable ) followed by a relatively stressed one ( here represented with "/" above the syllable ) — " da-DUM "

Traditionally, years were marked by one of twelve Earthly Branches, represented by an animal, and one of ten Heavenly Stems, which correspond to the five elements.

It represented the geographical centre of the city, the meeting place of five of its busiest streets in a star-shaped intersection deemed the transport hub of the entire continent.

Two later attempts represented the enthusiasm of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi ; these were the Federation of Arab Republics which lasted five years and the Arab Islamic Republic which never emerged in practice.

The stages of sleep were first described in 1937 by Alfred Lee Loomis and his coworkers, who separated the different electroencephalography ( EEG ) features of sleep into five levels ( A to E ), which represented the spectrum from wakefulness to deep sleep.

This figure represented 21 % of all the gambling machines in the world, and on a per capita basis, Australia had roughly five times as many gaming machines as the United States.

The veneration of icons had been abolished by the energetic measures of Constantine V and the Council of Hieria which had described itself as the seventh ecumenical council, but is not recognised as such by either Catholic or Orthodox churches, since none of the five major patriarchs were represented.

Another lesser known principle that the Republic was founded upon was five races under one union " ( 五族共和 ), which emphasized the harmony of the five major ethnic groups in China as represented by the colored stripes of the original Five-Colored Flag of the Republic.

Sometimes, the wheel is represented as only having five realms because the God realm and the Demi-god realm are combined into a single realm.

All configurations are represented in each of the five primary classifications.

# each decimal digit is represented by a binary numeral consisting of five bits of which two are of one kind, called " ones ," and three are of the other kind, called " zeros ", and

Maurice, who represented little genuine threat, was dragged from his monastic sanctuary at Chalcedon, and killed along with his five sons.

The five life zones represented are the Lower Sonoran, Upper Sonoran, Transition, Canadian, and Hudsonian.

Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.

There were major commissions: one from the city of Dessau for five tightly designed " Laubenganghäuser " ( apartment buildings with balcony access ), which are still in use today, and another for the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau bei Berlin.

Similarly, if the house was located in an undesirable neighborhood and the Federal Reserve Bank was about to raise interest rates by five percentage points, then the risk factor would be a lot higher than 5 %: it might not be possible for him to predict a profit in discounted terms even if he thinks he could sell the house for $ 200, 000 in three years.

The President is elected every five years by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ), a special body convened only for this purpose, comprising the entire Bundestag and an equal number of state delegates selected especially for this purpose in proportion to election results for the state diets.

Federal sites were divided into five security levels ranging from Level 1 ( minimum security needs ) to Level 5 ( maximum ).

At this, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department decided to reopen their case against the five integrated studios.

In the United States, for example, the general perjury statute under Federal law classifies perjury as a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to five years.

This action, brought by the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, claimed the five integrated studio-theater chain combinations restrained competition.

One of the five successor states was also known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, until 2003.

In the same year in the United States, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation data, though 4, 704 crimes were committed due to racial bias and 1, 617 were committed due to sexual orientation, only one murder and one forcible rape were committed due to racial bias, whereas five murders and six rapes were committed based on sexual orientation.

Black claimed it was a member of the Church of the SubGenius, John Hagen-Brenner, who sent him an " improvised explosive device consisting of an audio cassette holder wired with four cadmium-type batteries, four flashbulbs, and five firecrackers ", as described in the charging document filed in Federal District Court.

The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 ( 15 U. S. C §§ 41-58, as amended ) started the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ), a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the president of the United States for seven-year terms.

He was sentenced to three more years and eventually served over five and a half years in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.

East Germany joined the Federal Republic as the five states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.

As the five refounded eastern German states formally joined the Federal Republic using the Article 23 procedure, the area in which the Basic Law was in force simply extended to include them.

Thus, on Unification Day, 3 October 1990, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, giving way to five new Federal States, and East and West Berlin were also unified as a single city-state, forming a sixth new Federal State.

The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973 () was the renewal of the highway bill for the next five years, authorizing $ 18. 35 billion.

On January 12, 2011, Space Adventures and the Russian Federal Space Agency announced that orbital space tourism would resume in 2013 with the increase of manned Soyuz launches to the ISS from four to five per year.

The residents of Athens County are served by the five school districts: the Alexander Local School District, Athens City School District, the Federal Hocking Local School District, Nelsonville-York City School District, and the Trimble Local School District.

The county is divided into five townships: Cape Fear, Federal Point, Harnett, Masonboro, and Wilmington.

He and one other recruit encountered five Federal soldiers in Breathitt County before the company left the State, and though his companions fled, Reynolds stood his ground and handled his gun with such determination that the Federals took to flight after one of them was hit.

A cabinet for the new Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was formed, with twenty five of the twenty eight members being former Communist Yugoslav Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito.