And now Mr. Hodges has pioneered further into the economic unknown with the announcement that he thinks business has stopped sliding and that it should start going upward from this point.

Somewhere in the few scant yards of head start was the determining point.

And this is true in the case of some turnpikes on which revenues have risen close to, or beyond, the point at which the roads start to pay all operating costs plus annual interest on the bonds.

Let X be some repeatable process, and i be some point in time after the start of that process.

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

Whereas up until this point the Dutch presence had been simply as traders, that was sometimes treaty-based, the Banda conquest marked the start of the first overt colonial rule in Indonesia albeit under the auspices of the VOC.

This set of 12 months can start and end at any point on the Gregorian calendar.

Aided by the rediscovery at the start of the 1900s of Gregor Mendel's earlier work, Boveri was able to point out the connection between the rules of inheritance and the behaviour of the chromosomes.

The Big Bang theory states that it is the point in which all dimensions came into existence, the start of both space and time.

He is not aware of all of his powers at the start of the show ; for instance, his heat vision and super breath do not develop until seasons two and six, respectively, and his power of flight did not emerge until the series finale, up until that point the power appeared only in a few rare cases, such as when he was temporarily're-programmed ' to assume a Kryptonian persona or when he was trapped in a virtual reality.

It was at this point that he decided to start ' ST Incorporated '.

The up-front cost for implementing a data warehouse using the top-down methodology is significant, and the duration of time from the start of project to the point that end users experience initial benefits can be substantial.

As the point sources move closer together, the patterns will start to overlap, and ultimately they will merge to form a single pattern, in which case the two point sources cannot be resolved in the image.

To start the 2007 – 08 campaign, Henrik Zetterberg recorded at least a point in each of Detroit's first 16 games, setting a club record.

Start with a space ( e. g. a surface ), and some point in it, and all the loops both starting and ending at this point — paths that start at this point, wander around and eventually return to the starting point.

At some point, the server may be ordered to start a game ; in response, it creates game players ( nations ) and the game map, and assigns every player to either a Freeciv client or a computer player, as specified by the configuration.

Fort William is the northern end of the West Highland Way, a long distance route which runs 95 miles through the Scottish Highlands to Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and the start / end point of the Great Glen Way, which runs between Fort William and Inverness.

If neighboring geodesics start moving toward each other they eventually collide, at which point their extension is inside the black hole.

A complication at that point was that the DNA polymerase used was destroyed by the high heat used at the start of each replication cycle and had to be replaced.

Jefferson ’ s letter went on with the same heat to a much quoted passage about “ the day that France takes possession of New Orleans .” Not only did he say that day would be a low point in France ’ s history, for it would seal America ’ s marriage with the British fleet and nation, but he added, astonishingly, that it would start a massive shipbuilding program.

At this point, the colors usually start to change and can even invert, red becoming green and so forth.

Today more and more races are being held in audience-friendly formats, such as mass start, sprint, relay and pursuit ( a race that involves switching skis, and styles halfway through the race ).

Most races that are held in the spring and summer feature side by side racing also called a regatta ; all the boats start at the same time from a stationary position and the winner is the boat that crosses the finish line first.

These races are popular with spectators because one may watch both the start and finish.

Racing can be done with individual start, as in long track speed skating, or in time trial races of inline skating, where a maximum of four skaters start at the same time.

Red lines are marked in the middle of each straight as start and finish line for pursuit races.

The engine was not ready for the start of the 1985 season, so the team converted their M185 chassis to accept a Cosworth DFV engine for the first two races.

Unlike 1975 and despite tensions between Lauda and Di Montezemolos successor, Daniele Audetto, Lauda dominated the start of the 1976 F1 season, winning four of the first six races and finishing second in the other two.

1985 was a poor season for Lauda, with eleven retirements from the fourteen races he started, he did not start the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps after crashing and breaking his wrist during practice, he also later missed the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch ; John Watson replaced him for that race.

While soft ground, such as grass, is generally avoided, races may start and finish on soft ground or within a track and field stadium.

This event led directly to a period of city-to-city road races in France and other European countries, which introduced many of the features found in later rallies: individual start times with cars running against the clock rather than head to head ; time controls at the entry and exit points of towns along the way ; road books and route notes ; and driving over long distances on ordinary, mainly gravel, roads, facing hazards such as dust, traffic, pedestrians and farm animals.

National Hunt races are started by flag, which means that horses line up at the start behind a tape.

Although he had been known to sweat freely before some of his previous races, Nijinsky on this occasion appeared to become particularly nervous and anxious before the start.

Endurance races take place over a given, measured distance and the horses have an even start.

Since races at this distance can last around six or seven seconds, having good reflexes and thus getting off to a quick start is more vital in this race than any other.

Several other important rowing races over the Championship Course also either start or finish at the stone.

Several other important rowing races over the Championship Course also either start or finish at the stone, notably the Head of the River Race.

In November 2009, Betfair announced a deal with the New York Racing Association that allows Betfair's customers to start wagering immediately on Aqueduct's thoroughbred races.

During the first three races, Montoya consistently underperformed on the track, not managing to improve his position from the start at the Bahrain and Malaysia Grands Prix.

Space Shuttle Discovery races into the sky at the start of STS-31, whilst, for the first time since 1986, a second shuttle, Columbia, waits for her chance to launch.

At the start of Children of the Mind, Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, is using her newly discovered abilities to take the races of buggers, humans and pequeninos outside the universe and back in instantaneously.

Nominate T. merula may commence breeding in March, but eastern and Indian races are a month or more later, and the introduced New Zealand birds start nesting in August.

Most harness races start from behind a motorized starting gate.

Many European – and some Australian and New Zealand – races use a standing start.

The start of the races and the starting position ( which equals a certain number as explained previously ) are indeed important, independent of the start method.