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Jenny wished now that she had had Dr. Dunne, feeling that somehow he wouldn't have allowed the dear baby to turn into triplets.
Upon declaring the game over, the player is allowed to complete his turn ( including buying stock ).
Introduction of pigs by guano miners at the beginning of the 20th century reduced the crab population on the island, which in turn allowed grassland to gradually cover about 80 percent of the land surface ( Sachet, 1962 ).
The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the presidents of Stanford University and the University of California successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed Throop to develop as the only scientific research-oriented education institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of the World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science education.
This temporary respite in hostilities allowed Constantius to turn his full attention to facing Julian.
It was suggested that fire suppression activities in southern California allowed more fuel to accumulate, which in turn led to larger fires ( in Baja, fires often burn without active suppression efforts ).
However, people were allowed to defend their towers, and so everyone was provided with a " tooting-horn " to alert nearby country folk of the impending attack and the battle would turn into a " brawl.
In turn, the higher educational levels of the Christians allowed them to play a large role in the economy.
The introduction of wheels to replace the runner allowed the weight of the plough to increase, and in turn allowed the use of a much larger mouldboard faced in metal.
This allowed one not only to find out if a listener liked the performance, but how they felt at any individual moment, through a dial which they would turn to express their preference ( positive or negative ).
The war's end allowed the Party to tighten its reins on domestic artists, forcing creative attention to turn inward again.
Since Upwords lacks bonus squares found in Scrabble, players are not allowed to pluralize existing words by simply adding an " s " on the end of a word and ending their turn.
The development of oxide-coated filaments in the mid-1920s reduced filament operating temperature to a dull red heat ( around 700 ° C ), which in turn reduced thermal distortion of the tube structure and allowed closer spacing of tube elements.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Tylor and McLennan, historians of religion, held that the concept of fetishism fostered a shift of attention away from the relationship between people and God, to focus instead on a relationship between people and material objects, and that this, in turn, allowed for the establishment of false models of causality for natural events.
The evolution of torsional stiffness in skis allowed increasing control over the edging, and thus continued to improve the amount of carving relative to skidding through the turn.
A keyboard allowed the player to turn down individual jets ; As the glass tube cooled, a note was produced.
La Vie mode d ' emploi ( 1978 ) brought Perec some financial and critical success — it won the Prix Médicis — and allowed him to turn to writing full-time.
A hemispheric viewing window allowed consumers to see the blade of the flowmeter turn as the gasoline was pumped.
Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, NATO allowed the VJ to reclaim the demilitarized zone on May 24, 2001, and at the same time giving the UCPMB the opportunity to turn themselves over to Kosovo Force ( KFOR ), which promised to just take their weapons and note their names before releasing them.
It also allowed for a much greater population density, and in turn required an extensive labour force and division of labour with many specialised arts and crafts.
Despite such opposition, Walpole secured the support of the people and of the House of Commons with a policy of avoiding war which, in turn, allowed him to impose low taxes.
The subjects were allowed to turn on light when they were awake and to turn it off when they wanted to sleep.
This greatly extended battery life, yet still allowed the machine to turn back on almost instantly.

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Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.
" They in turn originate a second series, who create a second heaven.
Each series is served by one of the seven priests in turn.
Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.
Included from Camilla are Sandra's ( the titular character ) ability to turn into a cat, and the nature of her first encounter ( and the resulting sexual relationship ) with the series ' second main protagonist, Isabelle von Karatstein.
Channell, in turn, used part of that money to run a series of television advertisements directed at home districts of congressmen considered to be swing votes on contra aid.
Microbiologists have studied the genetic mechanisms by which the V. cholerae bacteria turn off the production of some proteins and turn on the production of other proteins as they respond to the series of chemical environments they encounter, passing through the stomach, through the mucous layer of the small intestine, and on to the intestinal wall.
An upgrade to the Flip Chip led to the R series, which in turn led to the PDP-7A in 1965.
From the New Forest coven, Gardner formed his own Bricket Wood coven, and in turn initiated many Witches, including a series of High Priestesses, founding further covens and continuing the initiation of more Wiccans into the tradition.
* In the TV series Dark Angel gene therapy is mentioned as one of the practices performed on transgenics and their surrogate mothers at Manticore, and in the episode Prodigy, Dr. Tanaka uses a groundbreaking new form of gene therapy to turn Jude, a premature, vegetative baby of a crack / cocaine addict, into a boy genius.
The Holden Caprice # VS | VS Statesman / Caprice of 1995, represented a mild facelift of the Holden VR Caprice | VR, which was in turn an update of the 1990 Holden VQ Statesman | VQ — Holden's long-wheelbase version of the Holden VN Commodore | VN Commodore series.
( Merzpicture 29a, Picture with Turning Wheel, 1920 for instance, combines a series of wheels that only turn clockwise, alluding to the general drift Rightwards across Germany after the Spartacist Uprising in January that year, whilst Mai 191 ( 9 ), alludes to the strikes organized by the Bavarian Workers ' and Soldiers ' Council.
The BBC was unable to secure the rights to turn Busman's Honeymoon into a proposed fourth and last part of the planned 13-episode series, so the series was produced as ten episodes.
Lex's attires primary consists of dark colors and is an inquisitive person, and it is that curiosity that drives him to attain as much power as possible as the series progresses, ultimately leading him to being Clark's greatest enemy, his conviction that he is ' needed ' to protect the world causing him to kill his own father and turn against everyone that he cannot control in the belief that he is ' protecting ' the world from the aliens or superhumans who might exert their authority, unable to accept the idea that they only seek to help others.
According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.
The Sultan sought to turn Constantinople into the center of Islamic civilization by a series of projects, including bridges, mosques, palaces and various charitable and social establishments.
After this storyline, Vulcans began a cultural transformation that was presumably a turn toward the more enlightened Vulcans of Trek series set further in the future.
Soon after the article appeared, the programmer for a local midnight film series in Santa Cruz decided to screen The Big Lebowski, and on the first weekend they had to turn away several hundred people.
Meanwhile, Paramount, long successful in syndication with repeats of Star Trek, found itself with several first-run syndicated series by the turn of the 1990s, in Entertainment Tonight, The Arsenio Hall Show, Friday the 13th: The Series, War of the Worlds, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Each turn is time-limited to ensure that players do not hold up the game with excessive thinking or moving, however this rule can be modified in some of the games in the Worms series.
Since then, a series of excavations has exposed further sections of seating, curved turn and central barrier but further exploration has been limited by the scale, depth and waterlogging of the site.
Unusually, the protonephridia do not take the form of flame cells, but instead the excretory cells consist of a skirt surrounding a series of cytoplasmic rods that in turn enclose a central flagellum.
Dissatisfaction with this state of affairs would lead to a series of conspiracies and attempted coups, which in turn eventually provoked Commodus to take charge of affairs, which he did in an increasingly dictatorial manner.

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