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The number of losers — which may add up to the size and severity of poverty — can be unexpectedly large if the method and process of privatization and how it is implemented are seriously flawed ( e. g. lack of transparency leading to state-owned assets being appropriated at minuscule amounts by those with political connections, absence of regulatory institutions leading to transfer of monopoly rents from public to private sector, improper design and inadequate control of the privatization process leading to asset stripping.
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By packing opposition voters into districts they will already win ( increasing excess votes for winners ) and by cracking the remainder among districts where they are moved into the minority ( increasing votes for eventual losers ), the number of wasted votes among the opposition can be maximized.
The estimated number of losing tricks ( losers ) in one's hand is determined by examining each suit and assuming that an ace will never be a loser, nor will a king in a 2 + card suit, nor a queen in a 3 + card suit ; accordingly
To determine how high to bid, responder adds the number of losers in his hand to the assumed number in opener's hand ( 7 ); the total number of losers arrived at by this sum is subtracted from 24 and the result is estimated to be the total number of tricks available to the partnership.
Hence, in NLTC the expected number of tricks equates to 25 minus the sum of the losers in the two hands ( i. e. half the sum of the half losers of both hands ).
One can identify " losers " as stocks that have had poor returns over some number of past years.
The main result of one such study is that losers have much higher average returns than winners over the following period of the same number of years.
We see the winners and try to " learn " from them, while forgetting the huge number of losers.
Tagert made a number of roster changes, and turned the RailCats from losers to winners almost immediately, ending the first half with a. 563 average, the first winning average in team history.
His novels were adapted for a number of films, among them Odds Against Tomorrow ( 1959 ), a noir tale of three losers, The Big Heat ( 1953 ), starring Glenn Ford as a cop that will do anything to get his man, and Rogue Cop ( 1954 ), a film noir directed by Roy Rowland.
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The Agnostida are divided into two suborders — Agnostina and Eodiscina — that are then divided into a number of families.
The Swiss Confederate mobilized its troops — the country follows the doctrine of " armed neutrality " with all males required to have military training — a number that General Eisenhower estimated to be about 850, 000.
A monastery must have been granted the status of an abbey by the Pope, and such monasteries are normally raised to this level after showing a degree of stability — a certain number of monks in vows, a certain number of years of establishment, a certain firmness to the foundation in economic, vocational and legal aspects.
In mathematics, an algebraic number is a number that is a root of a non-zero polynomial in one variable with rational coefficients ( or equivalently — by clearing denominators — with integer coefficients ).
This is an example of renormalization in quantum field theory — the field theory being necessary because the number of particles changes from one to two and back again.
Anthemius assumes a property of an ellipse not found in Apollonius's work, that the equality of the angles subtended at a focus by two tangents drawn from a point, and having given the focus and a double ordinate he goes on to use the focus and directrix to obtain any number of points on a parabola — the first instance on record of the practical use of the directrix.
Since 4 % can be expressed as. 04, gives the amount of alcohol in terms of ml — which, when divided by, shows the number of units.
The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a soldier who — urged on by his school teacher — joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ( Tjaden, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters ).
On a more abstract level, model theoretic arguments hold that a given set of symbols in a theory can be mapped onto any number of sets of real-world objects — each set being a " model " of the theory — providing the interrelationships between the objects are the same.
The theory proposes that a number of passages — 1 Cor.
* BB / K — Walk-to-strikeout ratio: number of bases on balls divided by number of strikeouts
* GO / AO — Ground ball fly ball ratio: number of ground ball outs divided by number of fly ball outs
* GDP or GIDP — Ground into double play: number of ground balls hit that became double plays
* K — Strike out ( also abbreviated SO ): number of times that a third strike is taken or swung at and missed, or bunted foul.
* LOB — Left on base: number of runners neither out nor scored at the end of an inning.
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The cyclist, a sufficiently commonplace young fellow, is not named but identified simply as `` Life '' -- that and a license number, which Piepsam uses in addressing him.
The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.
I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.
One serves society by conducting a business from which a certain number of employees draw their means of subsistence ; ;
The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.
Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.
Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.
The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.
As the result of an exhaustive review of the recommendations contained in this report, plus an analysis of our own enabling act, the Planning Division developed a number of basic planning objectives which caused a reorientation of its work program.
For those communities which have financial difficulties in effecting adjustments, there are a number of alternatives any one of which alone, or in combination with others, would minimize if not even eliminate the problem.
Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.
Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.
During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.
Mrs. Long still feels the same unique spirit of Westminster which she stated the present Juniors will experience today but probably will not appreciate in full for a number of years.
It is a number without which the equation cannot be solved correctly.
For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.
In addition, many of the hard-surface cleaners used for walls and woodwork had their genesis in trisodium orthophosphate, which is still the major ingredient of a number of such products.
Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.
The bottom part of a burrow has a number of side tunnels or `` cells '', each of which is provided with an egg plus a store of beebread.
It lacks pollen baskets and possesses only a large number of long, branched hairs on its legs, on which the pollen grains will collect.
At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.
For example, we are interested in the number of bull's-eyes, not which shots were bull's-eyes.
The several trials of a binomial experiment produce a new random variable X, the total number of successes, which is just the sum of the random variables associated with the single trials.
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