Despite the reelection of Clinton and Gore, and despite Democrats picking up a net eight seats in the elections to the United States House of Representatives held the same day, the Republicans had a net gain of two seats in the Senate, following major Republican gains two years previously in the 1994 elections.

You also deduct 50% of the excess of net long-term capital gains over net short-term capital losses in determining Adjusted Gross Income.

Adventurous activities can also lead to gains in knowledge, such as those undertaken by explorers and pioneers.

Private markets to public markets differences may also help explain the overnight windfall gains enjoyed by principals of companies that just did an initial public offering ( IPO ).

* the statement of retained earnings, also known as the statement of total recognised gains and losses or statement of changes in equity

He also allied with known criminals like Du Yuesheng for political and financial gains.

Much faster than the PDP-9 even in basic form, the PDP-15 also included a floating point unit and a separate input / output processor for further performance gains.

The party also made gains in the two state elections held at the same time, acquiring sufficient seats for a CDU-FDP coalition in the northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein and gaining enough votes in left leaning Brandenburg to clear the 5 % hurdle to enter that state's parliament.

Several other studies have also found lasting cognitive gains.

Morocco also gains financial support from countries that it assists.

On the other hand, positive emotions often facilitate reaching an agreement and help to maximize joint gains, but can also be instrumental in attaining concessions.

The USDA also allows that ' enriched macaroni products fortified with protein may be used and counted to meet either a gains / breads or meat / alternative meat requirement, but not as both components within the same meal.

Joseph Priestley, for example, in referring to the reaction of steam on iron, whilst fully acknowledging that the iron gains weight as it binds with oxygen to form a calx, iron oxide, iron also loses “ the basis of inflammable air ( hydrogen ), and this is the substance or principle, to which we give the name phlogiston .” Following Lavoisier ’ s description of oxygen as the oxidizing principle ( hence the name oxygen: oxus

Such efficiency gains mean a one-off increase in GDP, but through improved incentives to innovate and reduce costs also tend to raise the rate of economic growth.

As a result of victories over the Ottomans, by the early 19th century Russia also made significant territorial gains in Transcaucasia.

Richard also derived significant financial gains from the conquest of the island.

Standards, as " voluntary norms ", serve to facilitate the resolution of coordination dilemmas and realize mutual gains ; then standard refer also to a kind of social dilemma solution.

The traditional chronology places Surah 9 as the last or second-to-last surah revealed, thus, in traditional exegesis, it gains a large power of abrogation, and verses 9: 5, 29, 73 are held to have abrogated 2: 256 The ahadith also play a major role in this, and different schools of thought assign different weightings and rulings of authenticity to different hadith, with the four schools of Sunni thought accepting the Six Authentic Collections, generally along with the Muwatta Imam Malik.

After a team gains the serve ( also known as siding out ), its members must rotate in a clockwise direction, with the player previously in area " 2 " moving to area " 1 " and so on, with the player from area " 1 " moving to area " 6 ".

The two Bourbon monarchs were also joined by Charles Emmanuel of Savoy, who hoped to secure gains from the Austrian Duchies of Milan and Mantua.

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The Great Moore's Law Compensator ( TGMLC ), generally referred to as bloat, and also known as Wirth's law, is the principle that successive generations of computer software acquire enough bloat to offset the performance gains predicted by Moore's Law.

Although the French secured control of Spain and its colonies for a grandson of Louis XIV, the Austrians also ended up making significant gains in Western Europe, including the former Spanish Netherlands ( now called the Austrian Netherlands, including most of modern Belgium ), the Duchy of Milan in Northern Italy, and Naples and Sardinia in Southern Italy.

Distinguishing DID from malingering is a concern when financial or legal gains are an issue, and factitious disorder may also be considered if there patient has a history of help or attention seeking.

This strengthens the muscle at the specific joint angle at which the isometric exercise occurs, with some lesser gains in strength also occurring at proximal joint angles.

In both cases, the U. S. was the main donor to inter-African organizations headquartered in Ouagadougou which through sustained efforts have achieved and consolidated these gains.

The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.

The first third of the hike is through rugged, brushy terrain and gains slightly in elevation.

Sociologist Helmut Schoeck similarly considered envy the motive of collective efforts by society to reduce the disproportionate gains of successful individuals through moral or legal constraints, with altruism being primary among these.

One can acquire social capital through purposeful actions and can transform social capital into conventional economic gains.

Typically, the hero slowly gains knowledge of his past through legend, prophecy, lost-and-found-again family members, or encounters with " mentor " characters who know more about him than he does.

* Risk parity: equalizing risk by allocating funds to a wide range of categories while maximizing gains through financial leveraging.

After the war, African ex-servicemen sought to maintain the socioeconomic gains they had accrued through service in the King's African Rifles ( KAR ).

The attributes of the characters ( such as magic and fighting ability ) are given as numerical values which can be increased as the gamer progresses and gains rank and experience points through accomplishing goals or fighting enemies.

In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of " racketeering activity.

The Germans, through the use of huge artillery bombardments, flamethrowers and infiltration tactics were able to capture both Vaux and Douaumont, but were never able to take the city, and eventually lost most of their gains.

After initial military gains, the Biafran forces were pushed back and in 1970 Biafra was reabsorbed into Nigeria after an estimated population of 3 million Biafrans including women and children had been killed through the war starvation policy of the Nigerian Government.

An Overseas Development Institute briefing paper of April 1979 highlights one reason for success as being down to the 1973 Oil Crisis and the encouragement of LDCs to make gains through producers of other commodities.

Nevertheless, most new plays that are produced in New York go through some kind of assiduous development process, and rare is the play that shows up on a producer's desk and gains any traction.

For example: a point guard gains human capital through training and learning the fundamentals of the game at an early age.

Between late 1992 and early 1993, the Dow staggered through the 3, 000 level making only modest gains as the Biotechnology sector suffered through the downfall of the Biotech Bubble ; as many biotech companies saw their share prices rapidly rise to record levels and then subsequently fall to new all-time lows.

The structural distribution of capabilities then limits cooperation among states through fears of relative gains made by other states, and the possibility of dependence on other states.

In 1986, revenue from the capital gains tax rose to over $ 80 billion ; following restoration of the rate to 28 % from 20 % effective 1987, capital gains revenues declined through 1991.

* Ophthalmoscopy or fundus photography: Ophthalmoscopy is an examination of the retina in which the eye care professional: ( 1 ) looks through a slit lamp biomicroscope with a special magnifying lens that provides a narrow view of the retina, or ( 2 ) wearing a headset ( indirect ophthalmoscope ) with a bright light, looks through a special magnifying glass and gains a wide view of the retina.

Thus, while a von Neumann architecture is visible in some contexts, such as when data and code come through the same memory controller, the hardware implementation gains the efficiencies of the Harvard architecture for cache accesses and at least some main memory accesses.

It gains access to host's blood and lymph systems through tissue and mucous membranes.