Selig enjoys a high level of support from baseball owners, but has been widely decried by both the MLB Players ' Union for his policies and by the general public for presiding over the game during one of its most contentious periods.

Long term cross ownership of shares combined with a high capital tax rate greatly increases periods of asset deflation both in time and in severity.

For example, periods of high oxygen concentrations determined from ice core samples have been associated with fauna of a larger scale in the fossil record, while periods of low oxygen concentrations have been associated with fauna of a smaller scale in the fossil record.

Some fires are caused by lightning, but these are usually during periods of high humidity and low winds and are easily controlled.

The highest speed is attained in industrial and scientific high speed cameras that are capable of filming 1024x1024 video at up to 1 million frames per second for brief periods of recording.

Although the engine produces just 92 millinewtons ( 0. 331 ounce-force ) thrust at maximum power ( 2, 100W on DS1 ), the craft achieved high speeds because ion engines thrust continuously for long periods.

The division into conventional periods is, as with all such periodisations, relatively arbitrary, especially since at all periods, Ancient Greek has enjoyed high prestige, and the literate borrowed heavily from it.

Some scholars concur with this view, whereas others argue that the Gulag was neither as large nor as deadly as it is often presented, and it did not have death camps, although during some periods of its history, mortality was high in the labor camps.

During periods of particularly high demand for ammunition, such as after the November 2008 election of President Barack Obama, or after the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban in that country, factory ammunition can become considerably more expensive or even unavailable in stores.

* Pumped-storage hydroelectricity stores water pumped during periods of low demand to be released for generation when demand is high.

During two of the coldest periods in the last 250 years ( 1780s and 1810s ), the frequency of hurricanes in the Jamaica region was unusually high.

Averaging fifty and ranging from approximately forty to sixty years, the cycles consist of alternating periods between high sectoral growth and periods of relatively slow growth.

In most cases these lasers are still termed " continuous wave " as their output power is steady when averaged over any longer time periods, with the very high frequency power variations having little or no impact in the intended application.

Each lock has a navigable passage next to it through the weir, which is opened during periods of high river flow, when there is too much water for the lock.

Their high stability and reliability enables these machines to run uninterrupted for long periods of time.

Throughout much of the territory there are only two distinct seasons — winter and summer ; spring and autumn are usually brief periods of change between extremely low temperatures and extremely high.

Hospital admissions and respiratory deaths often increase during periods when ozone levels are high.

However, since traditional-style cooking of soul food vegetables requires high temperatures and / or long time periods, the water-soluble vitamins ( e. g., Vitamins A and C ) are either destroyed or leached out into the water in which it is cooked.

The border marked by the Mekong is as liquid as the waters within it: at high water during the rainy season, the centre line of the current is the border, while during low water periods, all islands, mudbanks, sandbanks, and rocks that are revealed, belong to Laos.

The improved economic performance of the economy during high tax periods compared to low tax periods casts doubt on the suggestion that steeply progressive high income taxes are harmful.

The Amblypoda were confined to the Paleocene and Eocene periods and occurred in North America, Asia ( especially Mongolia ) and Europe.

Its bones have been found as far south as Florida, where it may have occurred during four isolated time periods: around 1000 BC, 1000 AD, the 15th century, and the 17th century.

The Permian – Triassic ( P – Tr ) extinction event, informally known as the Great Dying, was an extinction event that occurred 252. 28 Ma ( million years ) ago, forming the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, as well as the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.

The Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 23 ) occurred in two periods:

Religious persecution is also prohibited, although religious persecution in Muslim majority states have occurred, especially during periods of cruel rulers and general economic hardships.

Even a partial success would improve the tactical situation in the Ypres salient, reducing the exceptional " wastage " which occurred even in quiet periods.

The natives of Pohnpei, especially the ' older ' generations, often refer to events in their past as having occurred, e. g., in " German times " or " before the Spaniards ," which identifies the historical periods as follows:

More recent periods of renewed interest in magic occurred around the end of the 19th century, where Symbolism and other offshoots of Romanticism cultivated a renewed interest in exotic spiritualities.

Having this simple but essential mathematical proportion at hand – which proved the overall impossible aforementioned role of the liver – Harvey went on to prove how the blood circulated in a circle by means of countless experiments initially done on serpents and fish: tying their veins and arteries in separate periods of time, Harvey noticed the modifications which occurred ; indeed, as he tied the veins, the heart would become empty, while as he did the same to the arteries, the organ would swell up.

Events mentioned in the Old Testament book of Esther are said to have occurred in Susa during either the Achaemenid or Sassanid periods.

" It should be observed that all monarchies have suffered periods of change as a result of which the power of the sovereign was reduced, but for the most part those periods occurred before the development of the system of constitutionnal monarchy and were steps leading to its establishment .".

Most of these failures, however, occurred during the warm-up and cool-down periods, when the tube heaters and cathodes were under the most thermal stress.

In periods of joint rule, at first only one of the emperors bore this title, as it occurred for the first time during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, when only Marcus Aurelius was pontifex maximus, but later two pontifices maximi could serve together, as Pupienus and Balbinus did in 238 — a situation unthinkable in Republican times.

With the introduction of radio for commercial and military uses, it was noted that periods of extreme static or noise occurred.

A different calendar was used to track longer periods of time, and for the inscription of calendar dates ( i. e., identifying when one event occurred in relation to others ).

Though such epiphanies might have occurred, they were almost certainly the result of long and intensive periods of study those individuals have undertaken, not a sudden, out-of-the-blue, flash of inspiration on an issue they have not thought about previously.

During these periods, as small-scale wars frequently occurred throughout Japan, the daimyo needed to augment their armies, so rōnin had opportunities to serve new masters.

The gorge was formed by meltwater floods during the cold periglacial periods which have occurred over the last 1. 2 million years.

These two periods occurred during the prehistoric Holocene Climatic Optimum ( between 4000 BC and 2000 BC ), when temperatures reached several degrees Celsius higher than the present, and mean sea level was higher by 5 to 6 metres.

Most of the observed warming occurred during two periods: 1910 to 1945 and 1976 to 2000 ; the cooling / plateau from 1945 to 1976 has been mostly attributed to sulphate aerosol.

A comparatively low genetic difference, however, suggests that some gene flow between the Black-billed and Yellow-billed magpies still occurred during interglacial periods until the Pleistocene.

Most species require chilling ( stratification ), with some such as Rosa canina not germinating until after two winter chill periods have occurred.