While supporters of the merger argued that there would be economies of scale and that the sales of PCs would drive sales of printers and cameras, Walter Hewlett was convinced that PCs were a low-margin but risky business that would not contribute and would likely dilute the old HP's traditionally profitable Imaging and Printing division.

Silvermintz notes that, " Historians of economic thought credit Plato, primarily on account of arguments advanced in his Republic, as an early proponent of the division of labor .” Notwithstanding this, Silvermintz argues that, " While Plato recognizes both the economic and political benefits of the division of labor, he ultimately critiques this form of economic arrangement insofar as it hinders the individual from ordering his own soul by cultivating acquisitive motives over prudence and reason.

While growth factor implies a positive effect on cell division, cytokine is a neutral term with respect to whether a molecule affects proliferation.

While producing the first logarithmic tables Napier needed to perform many multiplications, and it was at this point that he designed Napier's bones, an abacus-like device used for multiplication and division.

While it may well be the case that the people of the western stream spoke a language belonging to a wider Eastern Bantu division, it is a puzzle which remains to be resolved that they spoke a language most closely related to the languages just mentioned, all of which are today spoken in southeastern Africa.

While almost none of this math goes beyond the basic functions of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division ( certain obscure and completely optional situations may call for a logarithmic function ), this can seem daunting to newcomers.

While the Brewers were still holding on to the Wild Card lead, the division was never seriously challenged for the remainder of the year.

While Nintendo's Research & Development 3 division ( R & D3 ) was focused on developing the Nintendo 64, the other two engineering units were free to experiment with new product ideas.

* While returning from Italy in 1576 Edward de Vere first encountered a cavalry division outside of Paris that was being led by a German duke and then pirates in the English Channel.

While this simple method worked well in a small community of Christians unified by persecution, as the congregation grew in size, the acclamation of a new bishop was fraught with division, and rival claimants and a certain class hostility between patrician and plebeian candidates unsettled some episcopal elections.

While 60 % of regimental commanders had two years or more of command experience in June 1941, and almost 80 % of rifle division commanders, only 20 % of corps commanders, and 5 % or fewer army and military district commanders, had the same level of experience.

While the most popular form of the UMTS 3G system uses CDMA and frequency division duplexing ( FDD ) instead of TDMA, TDMA is combined with CDMA and Time Division Duplexing in two standard UMTS UTRA

While the new Saturn division fared well, Oldsmobile declined sharply, and attempts to remake the division as a European-style luxury car were unsuccessful.

While Cardinal Hugo de Sancto Caro is also known to come up with a systematic division of the Bible ( between 1244 and 1248 ), it is Langton's arrangement of the chapters that remains in use today.

While plants do utilise many of the same epigenetic mechanisms as animals, such as chromatin remodeling, it has been hypothesised that plant cells do not have " memories ", resetting their gene expression patterns at each cell division using positional information from the environment and surrounding cells to determine their fate.

* Oldsmobile Delta 88 ( 1965 – 1989 ) While the " 88 " series of Oldsmobile's date back to the 1940s, and were offered in a variety of trim levels, the introduction of the Delta 88, which superseded the Super 88 line as Olds mid-level full-sized vehicles, was a watershed event for the division.

While sea lions are generally larger than fur seals and lack the dense underfur of the latter, the long-standing division into subfamilies ( Arctocephalinae and Otariinae for fur seals and sea lions, respectively ) is unjustified in light of genetic evidence suggesting several fur seal species are more closely related to some sea lions than other fur seals.

While prokaryotic cyanobacteria themselves reproduce asexually through cell division, they were instrumental in priming the environment for the evolutionary development of more complex eukaryotic organisms.

While Lindros became a preeminent star in Philadelphia, the trade proved heavily lopsided in favor of the Nordiques-soon to become the Colorado Avalanche-providing the core of their two Stanley Cup teams and an unprecedented eight straight division championships, with Forsberg becoming a franchise player.

While each federal republic manages this division of powers differently, national security and defense, monetary policy, and other issues of a " national " scope are handled at the " federal " level while more local issues such as road and infrastructure maintenance and education policy are handled at the local level.

While the team led or was second in the West Division for four straight seasons, for the rest of the 1970s, the Black Hawks made the playoffs each year — winning seven division championships in the decade in all — but were never a successful Stanley Cup contender, losing 16 straight playoff games at one point.

While there are literally hundreds of types of bit mouthpieces, bit rings and bit shanks, essentially there are really only two broad categories: direct pressure bits, broadly termed snaffle bits ; and leverage bits, usually termed curbs.

While he has two championship rings with the 1999 – 2000 Yankees, Clemens has also been on the losing end of four World Series ( 1986 Red Sox, 2001 and 2003 Yankees, and 2005 Astros ), which is tied with Tom Glavine and John Smoltz ( who were both on the Braves when they lost the ' 91, ' 92, ' 96 and ' 99 World Series ) for the most among active players.

While slab-cut planks are seasoning, they tend to cup in a direction so as to " straighten " the growth rings.

While the ring closure in penams and cephems is between positions 1 and 4 of the β-lactam and is oxidative, the clavams and carbapenems have their rings closed by two-electron processes between positions 1 and 2 of the ring.

While the ideal structure of becomes considerably more complex as n increases, the rings in question still remain Noetherian, and any theorem about that can be proven using only the fact that is Noetherian, can be proven for.

While Drago is visibly shaken, Rocky is fired up and assaults Drago, which continues even after the bell rings.

While ceramic hybrid bearings use ceramic balls in place of steel ones, they are constructed with steel inner and outer rings ; hence the hybrid designation.

While the theory has developed in its own right, a fairly recent trend has sought to parallel the commutative development by building the theory of certain classes of noncommutative rings in a geometric fashion as if they were rings of functions on ( non-existent ) ' noncommutative spaces '.

While retroflecting, it pinches off large ocean eddies ( Agulhas rings ) that drift into the South Atlantic Ocean and take enormous amounts of heat and salt into the neighbouring ocean.

While projective covers for modules do not always exist, it was speculated that for general rings, every module would have a flat cover, that is, every module would be the epimorphic image of a flat module under a homomorphism with superfluous kernel.

While the first synchrotrons and storage rings like the Cosmotron and ADA strictly used the toroid shape, the strong focusing principle independently discovered by Ernest Courant et al.

While consisting primarily of cornmeal, Funyuns are ring-shaped using an extrusion process, representing the shape and texture of fried onion rings.

While the rings were retrieved, Lucy and the others got on a train to take Eustace and Jill to school, intending to use the rings on the way.

While commutators are segmented, slip rings are continuous, and the terms are not interchangeable.

While other methods of steering passenger cars have resulted from experiments, for example the " wrist-twist instant steering " Mercury Park Lanes controlled by two rings, none have yet been deployed as successfully as the conventional large steering wheel.

While serving on that board, her major legislative push was to shut down massage parlors who illegally trafficked persons into the country and used them to run illegal prostitution rings.

While attempting to escape the Book-which forces the New Guardians to re-live their lives prior to acquiring their current rings -, Sinestro discovers Indigo-1 in a prison cell, angrily proclaiming that she will escape whatever Abin Sur has planned for her, although he chooses to focus on his own escape rather than remain to question her more about this, only for Krona to burn the page that Sinestro is on before he can escape.

While it is the most eccentric of the Uranian rings, it has negligible orbital inclination.

* “ Delivery ” – While a man prepares his morning coffee, an ant rings his doorbell and tries to deliver a couch.

While there, they encounter Guy and Hal, who has the rings of the other Corps leaders.

While the colors themselves have held up well, damage visible includes dust and Newton's rings. Agfacolor was the name of a series of color film products made by Agfa of Germany.

While the thermometer records indicate a substantial warming trend, tree rings from these particular sites do not display a corresponding change in their maximum latewood density or, in some cases, their width.