Today many college bound students try to take a course in personal typing, as they feel a certain degree of mastery of this skill is almost essential for one who proposes to do academic work in college and a professional school.

Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.

Today they are the most common symbolic representation of numbers in the world.

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

Today, when mathematicians talk about " set theory " as a field, they usually mean axiomatic set theory.

Today they are a rather weak institution, dependent on international support to hold back the enemies in the current civil war.

Today, the Cornish Nationalist Party is seen as more of a pressure group as they do not put up candidates for any elections, although their visibility and influence within Cornwall is negligible.

Today they are far more complex and in many modern shows the clowning is a thread that links the whole show together.

Today, they reduce the mosquito and mole cricket populations.

Today, the cane toad can be found on all major islands in Fiji, although they tend to be smaller than their counterparts in other regions.

Today, the cane toad is well established in the state, from the Keys to north of Tampa, and they are gradually extending further northward.

Today, they are used primarily for shooting sports, hunting, and when shooting in silence is an important consideration.

Today many of the control systems are computer controlled and they consist of both digital and analog components.

Today, all diverse local languages under the Standard German umbrella are collectively referred to as " German dialects ", ( including Slavic, Frisian, Dutch, and Danish ones ) the vast majority of German speakers still believe, they were variations of " original " or even Standard German.

Today, the only linemen who can receive a forward pass are the ends and, if they report as eligible prior to the snap, the offensive tackle.

Today they are on permanent display at the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Today FAQ is more frequently used to refer to the list, and a text consisting of questions and their answers is often called a FAQ regardless of whether the questions are actually frequently asked, if they are asked at all.

Today they are newly created or even restored, esp.

Today, they are also known as the Western Isles although this phrase can also be used to refer to the Hebrides in general.

Today, there are many kiosks in and around the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, and they are still a relatively common sight in Balkan states.

By the 1960s and 1970s, the style of film shooting and editing shifted to include radical angles that conveyed more subjectivity and intimacy within the scenes Today, the master shot is still an extremely important element of film production, but scenes are not built around the master shot in the same way that they were when professional filmmaking was in its infancy.

In an interview with NBC Today one day after Brando's death, King also defended Brando's comments, saying that they were out of proportion and taken out of context.

Today, other than tribes successfully running casinos, many tribes struggle, as they are often located on reservations isolated from the main economic centers of the country.

Today, they include descendants of African Americans once enslaved by the Cherokees, who were granted, by federal treaty, citizenship in the historic Cherokee Nation as freedmen after the Civil War.

Today, biologists denounce the Naturalistic Fallacy because they want to describe the natural world honestly, without people deriving morals about how we ought to behave — as in: If birds and beasts engage in adultery, infanticide, cannibalism, it must be OK ).

Today whole grains are freshly ground every day and baked into bread.

Today the Nasser and Kassem governments are adamantly hostile to the West, are dependent for their military power on Soviet equipment and personnel ; ;

Today, that distinction has mostly disappeared and the terms " astronomer " and " astrophysicist " are interchangeable.

Today, crops are grown there.

Today, Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects and the Aramaic language of the Talmud are written in the Hebrew alphabet.

Today, many TRS-mediated calls are made over the Internet by consumers who use broadband connections.

Today, antique books printed by the Aldine Press in Venice are referred to as Aldines.

Today, Methodism follows this ancient Alexandrian practice as bishops are elected from and by the order of the presbyterate: the Discipline of the Methodist Church, in ¶ 303, affirms that " ordination to this ministry is a gift from God to the Church.

Today, " minor tranquilizer " can refer to anxiolytic and / or hypnotic drugs such as the benzodiazepines and nonbenzodiazepines which have some antipsychotic properties and are recommended for concurrent use with antipsychotics, and are useful for insomnia or drug-induced psychosis.

Today, Aleut weavers continue to produce woven grass pieces of a remarkable cloth-like texture, works of modern art with roots in ancient tradition. Birch bark, puffin feathers, and baleen are also commonly used by the Aleuts in basketry.

The words, " Today I have begotten you ," are omitted from the canonical Gospel of Mark, however, and it is therefore generally believed to have less adoptionist tendencies than the Gospel of the Hebrews.

Today almost 90 % of all brass alloys are recycled.

Today, the terms molecular biology and biochemistry are nearly interchangeable.

Today, direct engagements between aircraft are rare-the most modern fighter-interceptors carry much more extensive bombing payloads, and are used to bomb precision land targets, rather than to fight other aircraft.

Today, computer programs such as BLAST are used daily to search sequences from more than 260 000 organisms, containing over 190 billion nucleotides.

Today the terms " Order of Saint Benedict " and " Benedictine Order " are also used frequently to refer to the total of the independent Benedictine abbeys, thereby giving the wrong impression of a " generalate " or " motherhouse " with jurisdiction over dependent communities.

Today Benedictine monasticism is fundamentally different from other Western religious orders insofar as its individual communities are not part of a religious order with " Generalates " and " Superiors General ".

Today, nylon strings are commonly used in place of gut.

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