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value and 1980s
Coin grading services are a relatively recent phenomenon, having emerged in the 1980s as a response to the need for buyers and sellers to agree on common measures of a coin's value.
The rapid rise of the business microcomputer in the late 1980s, and especially the introduction of powerful 32-bit systems in the 1990s, quickly eroded the value of DEC's systems.
* Sustainability movement which started in the 1980s focused on Gaia theory, value of Earth and other interrelations between human sciences and human responsibilities.
The average annual growth rate of value added to the economy from the financial sector for the 1980s was the second-highest in Latin America, averaging 4 percent.
The total value of trade increased over fivefold in the 1960s, nearly tenfold in the 1970s, and doubled again in the 1980s.
During the first half of the 1980s, the yen failed to rise in value even though current account surpluses returned and grew quickly.
Starting in the late 1980s, John H. Boyd, a staff member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, consistently questioned the value of size and product diversification in banking.
Following the oil price crash in the early 1980s, the value of the peso dropped dramatically, which made international tourism even more attractive.
With better lubricants in the beginning of the 1980s, in Europe longer service intervals became the norm, with 10000 km in standard car use as the typical value in the 1990.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, the American eel was one of the top three species in commercial value to Ontario's fishing industry.
During the height of the 1980s Japanese property bubble, the palace grounds were valued by some as more than the value of all the real estate in the state of California.
In the late 1980s, HyperCard needed updating as well, but Apple management did not see any value in the product and let it wither.
This was a network system used to transfer all payments over £ 10, 000 UKP ( in early 1980s monetary value ) between the major UK banks and other major financial institutions based in the UK.
In the early 1980s, underemployment, inflation, and the rise in value of the dollar all contributed to a third wave of emigration from the island nation.
An example of the value of trading stamps would be during the 1970s and 1980s where the typical rate issued by a merchant was one stamp for each 10 ¢ of merchandise purchased.
Another problem was that existing CPU performance quickly pushed through the " obvious " barriers that experts perceived in the 1980s, and the value of parallel computing quickly dropped to the point where it was for some time used only in niche situations.
* The Iraq Survey Group ( ISG ) judged that events in the 1980s and early 1990s shaped Saddam ’ s belief in the value of WMD.
In the 1980s, high interest rates and the increased value of the United States dollar on international markets made debt servicing more expensive.
However, in the late 1980s and early 1990s the value premise / value criterion / contentions case model ( developed by Homewood High School coach Patricia Bailey and Vestavia Hills High School coach Marilee Dukes ) achieved national acceptance and use, bringing a degree of standardization to cases and by extension the shape of the round.
The twenty-dollar bill in the past was referred to as a " double-sawbuck " because it is twice the value of a ten-dollar bill, which was nicknamed a " sawbuck " due to the resemblance the Roman numeral for ten ( X ) bears to the legs of a sawbuck, although this usage had largely fallen out of favor by the 1980s.
During the 1980s, notable activist investors such as Carl Icahn and T. Boone Pickens gained international notoriety and were often perceived as " corporate raiders " for acquiring an equity stake in publicly owned companies, like Icahn's investment in B. F. Goodrich, and then forcing companies to take action to improve value or rid themselves of rebel intruders like Icahn by buying back the raider's investment at a fat premium, often at the expense of the other shareholders.
The land value, which was relatively cheap during this time, surged during the 1980s and 1990s when the water views, large suburban blocks, ease of transport and quiet streets became popular.
The stone was formerly used for purposes of trade in many North-West European countries where its value ranged from about 5 to 40 local pounds ( 3 to 15 kg ), but with the advent of metrication from the mid-nineteenth century onwards it was superseded by the kilogram ; its use for trade in the United Kingdom and in Ireland being rescinded in the 1980s.

value and pop
A third example showing a different version of metonymy is the fictional character Scrooge McDuck's " money bin " or indeed Scrooge himself, often used in Disney works and parody works as metonymous with wealth-most currency in the modern era is now stored electronically, but the money bin is still drawn in comics and persists as a pop culture metonym for any financial holding of great value.
Many find a comedic value in fart lighting and the activity is increasingly represented in pop culture possibly because " for adults, the allure of the vulgar is regressionary and often secretly pleasurable.
JOJO is synonymous with pop culture and we are confident she will resonate with shoppers who want great style at exceptional value ,"
He went on to summarise, " Clarity is an album full of sensible pop songs, replay value and a diverse range of instruments and sounds.
This will typically restore saved register values ( such as the frame pointer value ) from the stack frame, pop the entire stack frame off the stack by changing the stack pointer value, and finally branch to the instruction at the return address.
Returning from the called function will pop the top frame off of the stack, perhaps leaving a return value.
istore 1 // pop a value from the stack, and store it in variable x1
The film follows Grace Beasley who in the face of her failing marriage, and the death of her favorite pop star, learns the value and limitations of unconditional love, and the evils of sexism and homophobia.
A very strong attitude to affectionately mock and modify to their needs the clichès of Italian pop music has always been part of their musical career, and nonetheless many Italian pop artists have been proud guests in their recordings, acknowledging their value.

value and culture
Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.
In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.
Amber's place in culture and tradition lends it a tourism value ; Palanga Amber Museum is dedicated to the mineral.
Its value is the insight it provides to the ancient culture of Egypt.
A final design element is the creation of an organizational culture that supports and rewards employees who believe in the value of teamwork and who maintain a positive mental attitude towards team-based rewards ( Haines and Taggar, 2006 ).
Thought reform contains elements which are evident in Chinese culture ( emphasis on interpersonal sensitivity, learning by rote and self-cultivation ); in methods of extracting confessions well known in the Papal Inquisition ( 13th century ) and elaborated through the centuries, especially by the Russian secret police ; in methods of organizing corrective prisons, mental hospitals and other institutions for producing value change ; in methods used by religious sects, fraternal orders, political elites or primitive societies for converting or initiating new members.
These developments — re-evaluation of the entire Western value system ( love, marriage, popular culture, shift from industrial to service economy ) that took place since the 1950s and 1960s, with a peak in the Social Revolution of 1968 — are described with the term Postmodernity, Influences on postmodern thought, Paul Lützeler ( St. Louis ) as opposed to Postmodernism, a term referring to an opinion or movement.
Thus, in giving a speech in defense of a poet whose Roman citizenship had been questioned, the orator should examine not only the specifics of that poet's civic status, he should also examine the role and value of poetry and of literature more generally in Roman culture and political life.
It aims at changing the culture from being focused on redistribution of value to being focused on value creation.
Noting the trend in reality shows that take the paranormal at face value, The New York Times culture editor Mike Hale characterized ghost hunting shows as " pure theater " and compared the genre to professional wrestling or soft core pornography for its formulaic, teasing approach.
The value of fences and the metaphorical significance of a fence, both positive and negative, has been extensively utilized throughout western culture.
Although Herder focused on the positive value of cultural variety, the sociologist William Graham Sumner called attention to the fact that one's culture can limit one's perceptions.
Ethicist Daniel Callahan has written U. S. culture overly emphasizes individual autonomy rather than communitarian morals and that stops beneficial rationing by social value, which benefits everyone.
Spiritual identity appears when the symbolic religious and spiritual value of a culture is found by individuals in the setting of their own life.
The rapid decline in the real value of salaries strongly encouraged a culture of corruption and dishonesty among public servants of all kinds.
The corned beef as described in this text was a rare and valued dish, given the value and position of cattle within the culture, as well as the expense of salt, and was unrelated to the corned beef eaten today.
Though ' God-Building ' was suppressed by Lenin, Gorky retained his belief that " culture "— the moral and spiritual awareness of the value and potential of the human self — would be more critical to the revolution ’ s success than political or economic arrangements.
To enhance the community's stature and culture, and to enhance the value of his local real estate holdings, in 1883 Henry A. DeLand established DeLand Academy, Florida's first private college.
The beginnings of an Anglo-Welsh tradition are found by some in the novels of Allen Raine ( Anne Adalisa ( Evans ) Puddicombe ) ( 1836 – 1908 ), from Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, whose work, Stephen Thomas Knight proposes, " realised a real, if partial, separate identity and value for a Welsh social culture ".
Subcultures can exist at all levels of organizations, highlighting the fact that there are multiple cultures or value combinations usually evident in any one organization that can complement but also compete with the overall organisational culture.
* A Respectful Learning Atmosphere-Due largely to the high value of a quality education and the Confucian teaching of respect for one's elders, educators in Chinese culture are treated with the utmost respect.

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