Founded by Henry Wilhelm and Carol Brower in 1995, WIR was established based upon the research done for Wilhelm's 1993 book on photograph preservation ( co-authored by Brower ) The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures.

In addition to its raw research, WIR consults for a wide variety of clients in the photography, archival, and digital print media fields.

Bickle won his first half mile feature at WIR even though he had raced at Capital for several seasons.

Through his famous Berlin organization, Internationale Arbeiter-Hilfe ( International Workers ’ Aid or IAH, also known as Worker's International Relief or WIR ), based in Berlin, Münzenberg was reputed to have sent millions of dollars ’ worth of aid to the Soviet Union during the famine.

The first exchange system was the Swiss WIR Bank.

The oldest local currencies known to be in continuous use are the WIR in Switzerland, and the Labor Banks in Japan.

In 1932, a group of Swiss businessmen used his ideas to found WIR.

In Switzerland, the WIR Bank operates a system close to a LETS.

Trickle won ASA races at Coeburn, Virginia and Cayuga, Ontario in 1984, as well as the Red, White, and Blue state championship series at WIR and the Slinger Nationals at Slinger.

* West Indies Rum Distillery Ltd. -- WIR site

There are, however, some complementary currencies which are regional or global, such as the Community Exchange System, WIR and Friendly Favors, or the proposed global currency terra.

In 1981, he finished second in the points at Wisconsin International Raceway ( WIR ), two points behind Alan Kulwicki.

Musgrave qualified the fastest five times in a row at WIR and was leading the points when he battered his wrist in a wreck.

In 1984 he raced primarily at Slinger, Wisconsin International Raceway ( WIR ), and Capital.

He had a good season at WIR and raced well at the ARTGO races that he ran.

He had 17 feature wins that season, and he ran well at Slinger, WIR, and Wisconsin Dells.

* WIR Bank-One of the oldest and most successful complementary currencies, founded in 1934, oriented towards small and mid-sized corporations, with 62, 000 members.

The fact is due mainly to international wars, both hot and cold.

There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.

It is well then that in this hour both of `` national peril '' and of `` national opportunity '' we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

And it is certainly no slight to either of them to compare both their achievements and their impact.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.

Each man, that is, is both one and many.

The Agreeable Autocracies is an attempt to explore some of the institutions which both reflect and determine the character of the free society today.

This is clear when one distinguishes the types of motion appropriate to both regions.

Her clothes, her hair, everything about her is both graceful and simple.

Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

'' It is also worthy of note that Lot cited both Kemble and Lappenberg with favor in that article.

This, naturally, will be difficult to do since both the archaeological and place-name evidence in this period, with some fortunate exceptions, is insufficient for precise chronological purposes.

For the figure of Vincent Berger Malraux has obviously drawn on his studies of T. E. Lawrence ( though Berger fights on the side of the Turks instead of against them ), and like both Lawrence and Malraux himself he is a fervent admirer of Nietzsche.

If a broader Atlantic community is to be formed -- and my own judgment is that it lies within the realm of both our needs and our capacity -- a ready nucleus of machinery is at hand in the NATO alliance.

* in genetics, ADA is the abbreviation of Adenosine deaminase enzyme

APL is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

A contraction is an abbreviation, but an abbreviation is not necessarily a contraction.

In French, the period only follows an abbreviation if the last letter in the abbreviation is not the last letter of its antecedent: " M ." is the abbreviation for " monsieur " while " Mme " is that for " madame ".

Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".

* Aperture priority, Av ( Aperture value ) is a common abbreviation on a camera mode dial