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The preferred organisational structure in the 1970s was for the BRB to form wholly owned subsidiaries which were run at an arm's-length relationship, e. g. the railway engineering works became British Rail Engineering Limited ( BREL ) in 1970 ; the ferry operations to Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands were run by Sealink ( U. K .) Ltd, part of the Sealink consortium, which also used ferries owned by the French national railway SNCF, the Belgian Maritime Transport Authority Regie voor maritiem transport / Regie des transports maritimes ( RMT / RTM ), and the Dutch Zeeland Steamship Company.
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Indeed, recent research on downsizing in the U. S., UK, and Japan suggests that downsizing is being regarded by management as one of the preferred routes to turning around declining organisations, cutting costs, and improving organisational performance, most often as a cost-cutting measure.
preferred and structure
The CsCl structure is preferred because Cs < sup >+</ sup > has an ionic radius of 174 pm and 181 pm.
Dyson conceived that such structures would be clouds of asteroid-sized space habitats, though science fiction writers have preferred a solid structure: either way, such an artifact is often referred to as a Dyson sphere, although Dyson himself used the term " shell ".
To allow this anisotropic structure, a dimensionless unit vector n called the director, is introduced to represent the direction of preferred orientation of molecules in the neighborhood of any point.
It is also preferred for the line code to have a structure that will enable error detection.
Schleiden preferred to study plant structure under the microscope.
Although he preferred integration of a wider group of European states he accepted the group of Six of the EEC and defended the supranational structure it was based on.
It is also preferred for the line code to have a structure that will enable error detection.
# This is the most preferred financing structure and carries higher order Shariah compliance.
In an anisotropic medium, such as a crystal, the polarisation field P is not necessarily aligned with the electric field of the light E. In a physical picture, this can be thought of as the dipoles induced in the medium by the electric field having certain preferred directions, related to the physical structure of the crystal.
A feature of Proto-Indo-European morpheme structure was a system of vowel alternations termed ablaut (" alternate sound ") by early German scholars and still generally known by that term ( except in French, where the term apophonie is preferred ).
Mezzanine capital refers to subordinated debt or preferred equity securities that often represent the most junior portion of a company's capital structure that is senior to the company's common equity.
Nonetheless, although the CPP agreed to work within the new constitutional order, the structure of government that existed in 1951 was certainly not what the CPP preferred.
However, the preferred term in Ireland is now protected structure.
Whatever version of this view is preferred, whether cast in terms of the Gricean intentions ( see Paul Grice ) or in terms of the structure of Searlean illocutionary acts ( see speech act ), it does not obviously apply to explaining the absurdity of the commissive version of Moore's paradox.
Under a procedural model, a preferred approach to repetitive tasks is to create a function or subroutine that performs a single pass through the task ; this subroutine is then called by the parent routine, either repetitively or better yet, with some form of looping structure.
A G-torsor is a space which is homeomorphic to G but lacks a group structure since there is no preferred choice of an identity element.
They show stronger response to fertilizer compounds ( those with low salt index are preferred ) than most other trees, but soil structure and organic matter content are more important.
* Convertible preferred stock, ( convertible preference shares in the UK ), is similar in valuation to a bond, but with lower seniority in the capital structure.
As a topological space, F < sub > x </ sub > is homeomorphic to GL < sub > k </ sub >( R ) although it lacks a group structure, since there is no " preferred frame ".
It is arguably preferred to leave such national labels for levels of government untranslated to avoid the false suggestion of resemblance to e. g. the UK structure of government ( Bankauskaite et al.
Under Mićunović, DS was not a party with strong leadership as the longtime university professor preferred the relaxed intellectual approach to the rigid internal party structure.
This additional complexity was welcomed by music composers, who preferred more sophisticated structure to their compositions and did not see it as a simple list of timed note-presses.
They claim that a market structure of planned obsolescence and rapid innovation may be preferred to long-lasting products and slow innovation.
Under the unreformed colonial social structure that remained from the 18th century, a small group of landowners in the influential province of Pernambuco controlled most of the workable land and preferred to concentrate on agricultural products for export.
He characterizes democracy as " publicly owned government ," which he compares to monarchy —" privately owned government "— to conclude that the latter is preferable ; however, Hoppe aims to show that both monarchy and democracy are deficient systems compared to his preferred structure to advance civilization — what he calls the natural order, a system free of both taxation and coercive monopoly in which jurisdictions freely compete for adherents.
preferred and 1970s
At certain points in the 1970s, " Chicano " was the preferred term for reference to Mexican-Americans, particularly in the scholarly literature.
" During the 1960s and 1970s the term was embraced by some humanists who considered themselves anti-religious, as well as those who, although not critical of religion in its various guises, preferred a non-religious approach.
Crane, who in the 1970s had been the party's first Executive Director, and some of his allies resigned from the Party in 1983 when their preferred candidates for national committee seats lost in the elections at the national convention.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, bands preferred performing in TV shows which themselves became visually more attractive.
The discovery of Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians in 1890 reversed this trend for the broad assessment of Theramenes ' character, and Diodorus ' account of the Arginusae trial has been preferred by scholars since Antony Andrewes undermined Xenophon's account in the 1970s ; Diodorus ' more melodramatic passages, such as his elaborate presentation of Theramenes ' last moments, are still discounted, but he is now preferred on a number of issues, and on the Arginusae trial in particular.
From the mid 1970s to the late 1990s the cassette deck was the preferred music source for the automobile.
Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews and Clydie King were the preferred trio for backing vocals on the group's late 1970s albums.
By the 1970s, changes in film distribution made it difficult for Radio City to secure exclusive bookings of many films ; furthermore, the theater preferred to show only G-rated movies, which further limited their film choices as the decade wore on.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, electronic music and several of its subgenres became a preferred musical style among European underground culture.
Western anthropologists adopted San extensively in the 1970s, where it remains preferred in academic circles.
In the 1960s and 1970s, large, heavy, high output power amplifiers were preferred for instrument amplifiers, especially for large concerts, because public address systems were generally only used to amplify the vocals.
Vacuum tubes were the dominant active electronic components in amplifiers manufactured from the 1930s through the early 1970s, and tube amplifiers continue to be preferred by some professional musicians.
By the early 1970s, Grechko's views had caused opposition within the military and the political leadership, who wanted the Soviet Union to have a second strike capacity in order to prevent a war with the United States from going nuclear immediately as Grechko preferred.
Since the late 1970s the Mustard procedure has been preferred.
In the 1970s the cheaper Volkswagen Iltis was preferred ; now the Iltis is replaced by the " Wolf " and the armoured variant LAPV Enok.
In the early 1970s, Boone starred in the short-lived TV series Hec Ramsey, which was about a turn-of-the-20th-century Western-style police detective who preferred to use his brain and criminal forensic skills instead of his gun.
The term itself has been in use since the 1970s, though in more recent times the terms mini, micro or midi hi-fi, or integrated hi-fi have been preferred.
* The theory favors openness as it was developed in the 1970s when ideas of freedom and openness were preferred, but there may be times when openness isn ’ t the best option in a relationship.
The wharf's influence diminished for Woolloomooloo during the 1970s when other more modern wharves were preferred.
Although promoted as " the best Rogers drums ever made ", the XP-8 models did not curry favor with drummers, most of whom preferred the 1960s and 1970s sound.
In the past few decades, Atlixco has increasingly become a preferred area for country houses of residents of the city of Puebla, beginning in the 1970s with the development of the residential complex La Moraleda, and later El Cristo Golf Club.
Over time the telegraph gave way to the telephone as the preferred method of communication, and by the 1970s this function was carried out primarily by two-way radio.
The label emerged in the 1970s in Japan and is now the most commonly used label and preferred term of self-definition.
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