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project and generated
The profits generated by the Erie Canal project started a canal building boom in the United States that lasted till about 1850 when railroads started becoming seriously competitive in price and convience.
To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.
The project has generated controversy: critics have described the new landmark buildings as signs of a reactionary historicist aesthetics.
Desertec is an energy project launched in Munich in 2009, consisting on the use of solar and wind technology in the Sahara desert, with the aim to provide that energy generated to African and European countries.
NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe listed a contract to trade offsets generated by a CDM carbon project called Certified Emission Reductions.
Project Mogul ( sometimes referred to as Operation Mogul ) was a top secret project by the US Army Air Forces involving microphones flown on high altitude balloons, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests.
In 1995, the CIA hired the American Institutes for Research ( AIR ) to perform a retrospective evaluation of the results generated by the Stargate project.
The focusing steps, this process of ongoing improvement, have been applied to manufacturing, project management, supply chain / distribution generated specific solutions.
Wayside World ( part of a shared-universe project generated by Poul Anderson ) was also the name of a chapter in the novel.
In a 2008 interview with Music4Games regarding the project, Shimomura commented that with the sheet music generated for the project, she would be interested in pursuing a live performance of Drammatica for fans if the opportunity arose.
To complement the business case, a basic use case model, project plan, initial risk assessment and project description ( the core project requirements, constraints and key features ) are generated.
A decision is reached early in the first phase as to whether, based on the more detailed information generated by the marketing and development staff, the project should be pursued further.
The project generated over 11 million pounds of toxic materials and caused more than 304 accidents.
So ingrained was the belief that parallel computing was the future of all performance gains that the Fifth-Generation project generated a great deal of apprehension in the computer field.
Revenues from Q & A, and from Symantec's early launch into the international marketplace, combined with Turner Hall Publishing, generated the market presence and scale that enabled Symantec to make its first merger / acquisition, in February 1987, that of BreakThrough Software, maker of the TimeLine project management software for DOS.
To Walt Disney's dismay, the city of Anaheim, eager for the tax revenue generated by more hotels in the city, was lax in restricting their construction, and the area surrounding Disneyland became the atmosphere of colorful lights and flashy neon signs that he had wanted to avoid ( and which years earlier had caused the city of Burbank to deny his initial request to build his project in Burbank ).
He has initiated a half-million dollar project that will involve the construction of an administrative headquarters that church officials say will be more conducive to the volume of business generated by the 90-year-old organization.
The project generated a major volume edited by the late Diane Knippers and Ronald Sider and published by Baker Books titled " Toward an Evangelical Public Policy.

project and harsh
When a particularly harsh winter up north brought an influx of beggars to Nice, some of the rich Englishmen proposed a useful project for them: the construction of a walkway ( chemin de promenade ) along the sea.
Since the early 1980s, Japan has produced a significant output of characteristically harsh bands, sometimes referred to under the portmanteau Japanoise, with perhaps the most well known being Merzbow ( pseudonym for the Japanese noise artist Masami Akita who himself was inspired by the Dada artist Kurt Schwitters's Merz art project of psychological collage ).
The press was harsh, referring to the project as " Kaputnik " or " Project Rearguard ".
The workers required for the project and their families were housed in camps and settlements and endured Canberra's harsh weather conditions.
He further commissioned the official Pei Zheng ( 裴政 ) to carry out a project of simplifying the penal code and decrease the penalty from the harsh laws — a reform that was later largely accepted by the succeeding dynasties.
In 1947, Timofeev-Resovskij was rescued out of a harsh Gulag prison camp, nursed back to health, and sent to Sungul ' to complete his sentence, but still make a contribution to the Soviet atomic bomb project.
The project would displace up to 100, 000 people to the north, mainly the Naxi minority, to a Tibetan area with harsh climate and the staples are such unfamiliar crops as barley and potatoes ; virtually stop the flow of the upper Yangtze River, and irreparably alter the landscape of the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
However, only after the harsh winter of 2002 – 2003 which resulted in an increased demand for power, the project of the submarine cable between Estonia and Finland got a boost.
Soon after being initiated the project became the subject of harsh criticisms by indigenous activists and Mexican intellectuals who questioned how knowledge obtained from individual Maya could be patented by researchers or foreign pharmaceutical companies, how the PROMAYA NGO established by the Berlins and under their control could be considered representative of the many different Maya communities in Chiapas, and how it was possible for the knowledge that had been collective property of the Maya peoples to become suddenly privatized without the prior consent of each of the individual initual holders of the knowledge.
Xome is a harsh noise project from Sacramento, comprised solely of Bob Scott ( also known as Bob Sato ).
However, his putting Li Huaiguang, known for being a harsh commander, in charge of the project caused a mutiny of the soldiers at Jingyuan Circuit ( 涇原, headquartered in modern Pingliang, Gansu ) in 780.
The construction project was entirely carried out by Soviet military engineering troops, with some 15 fatalities due to hurry and harsh work conditions.

project and criticism
Poindexter faced criticism from the media and some politicians about the Policy Analysis Market project, a theoretical prediction market that would have rewarded participants for accurately predicting geopolitical trends in the Middle East.
The closure of the bridge only two days after opening attracted public criticism of it as another high-profile British Millennium project suffered an embarrassing setback, akin to how many saw the Millennium Dome.
In each, the leader exercised his influence regarding the type of group decision making, praise and criticism ( feedback ), and the management of the group tasks ( project management ) according to three styles: authoritarian, democratic, and laissez-faire.
Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( 1694 – 1768 ) started the historical Jesus project and David Friedrich Strauss established it as part of biblical criticism with his book Life of Jesus Critically Examined ( 1835 ).
While it was not the subject of the case, some felt that the plaintiffs did not bring their action for an improper purpose, and the suit did not inhibit the defendants in their public criticism of the particular project, and that the Act was therefore ineffective in this case.
Project Censored is a non-profit, media criticism and investigative journalism project within the Sonoma State University Foundation.
There was also criticism of the high construction cost of the project.
The judgment singled out Bechtel-Price-Callahan for criticism for its role in the cost overruns and mismanagement that plagued the project.
The project was completed in 1985 and drew criticism from the growing environment movements in the U. S. and Canada.
As the project dragged on, the criticism increased.
This led to Telford bringing in Irish navvies, to manage the shortfall, which led to further criticism, since one of the main aims of the project was to reduce unemployment in the Highlands.
Heyerdahl's Odin project was subjected to fierce criticism from Norwegian academics within the fields of research upon which the theory touches.
But after the opening, the project has been subject to significant criticism, as it has opened at a time when air traffic at Dublin airport has been subject to significant declines.
There was criticism of McGuinty and calls for Health Minister David Caplan to resign after it was revealed that eHealth Ontario CEO Sarah Kramer had approved about $ 4. 8 million in no-bid contracts during the first four months of the agency's operation, while also spending, argued that the McGuinty government spent five years and $ 647 million on the Smart Systems for Health Agency, which used 15 per cent of its $ 225-million annual budget on consultants despite employing 166 people with annual salaries exceeding $ 100000, before the project was shut down and restarted as eHealth Ontario.
Following a flood along the river in 1938, in which the dam was required to pass through all of the flow of water, there was criticism of the dam project as failing to meet its promise of preventing downstream floods.
Daughter and colleague of Marcel Griaule, Genevieve Calame-Griaule, defended the project, dismissing Van Beek's criticism as misguided speculation rooted in an apparent ignorance of esoteric tradition.
During 2004, Modern Continental Construction endured mounting criticism for its failure to complete a major highway-widening project in northeastern Massachusetts on schedule, and questions were raised about its financial stability.
Known as Legea Rurală ( the " Rural Law "), the project received instant support from the then-Premier Barbu Catargiu, leader of the Conservatives, and the target of vocal criticism on Kogălniceanu's part.
The project has come under criticism for lack of reliability but it is also cited by organisations such as the National Archives and Records Administration.
However, the project has received criticism ; following approval of the proposals in June 2007, concern was raised by Councillor Alisdair Gibbs-Barton, who said that the market place was beginning to resemble a park, and that more trade should be being encouraged.
Apple has come under some criticism for not supporting the older project files, when it does support importing iMovie projects ( files ).
Under Iglesias ' tenure, the IDB has received criticism about its funding of the project.
After Parisot's new criticism, she claims that " the philosophy of the FN's economic project comes down to some words: construction of a strong, protective and strategist state, reasoned protections at the boundaries, support to the small and medium enterprises, and get back the monetary sovereignty, only able to assure France's recovery ".
Stung by criticism that the moon-base project has no real justification — 37 years ago, President Richard Nixon canceled the final planned Apollo moon missions because the program was accomplishing little at great expense ; as early as 1964, the communitarian theorist Amitai Etzioni was calling lunar obsession a “ moondoggle ”— NASA is selling the new plan as a second moon race, this time against Beijing.

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