While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

While doing research into local economics during 1989, Glover had seen an " Hour " note 19th century British industrialist Robert Owen issued to his workers for spending at his company store.

While the company performed strongly last year, registering a 17 % growth in client base ( to 7. 4m ) over the first three quarters of 2008, it began to falter as consumer spending slowed, resulting in a 1 % annual increase in turnover for Q2 2009.

While Jacqueline Kennedy had also faced some press criticism for her spending habits, Reagan's treatment was much more consistent and negative.

While the morality of taxation is sometimes questioned, most arguments about taxation revolve around the degree and method of taxation and associated government spending, not taxation itself.

While the need for stimulus measures has been broadly accepted among policy makers, there has been much debate over how to fund the spending.

While public spending on infrastructure grew by 1. 7 % annually between 1956 and 2004, it has remained constant as a share of GDP since early 1980s.

The survey was executed for William I of England ( William the Conqueror ): " While spending the Christmas time of 1085 in Gloucester, William had deep speech with his counsellors and sent men all over England to each shire to find out what or how much each landholder had in land and livestock, and what it was worth " ( Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ).

While the Xbox and GameCube versions also received generally positive reviews ( the Xbox version was described as " truly fantastic " and " the best Star Wars experience on the Xbox " and the GameCube version as " worth spending time with "), their aggregated scores were not as strong as the PC and Macintosh versions '.

While much smaller in volume than other chemical sectors, their products tend to have very high prices — over ten dollars per pound — growth rates of 1. 5 to 6 times GDP, and research and development spending at 15 to 25 percent of sales.

While the spending line-item is on hold, the President can send legislation to Congress to withdraw the particular line-item.

No singles were taken from The Beatles in either Britain or America, but " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da " backed with " While My Guitar Gently Weeps ", both from the album, became a double-sided smash in Australia, spending five weeks at Number One in the beginning of 1969.

While attending Thomas Jefferson High School, he took little interest in academics, spending most of his time focusing on " broads, mouthing off, and doodling ".

While Davis ' record is generally considered pro-environmental due to increases in spending for land acquisition, maintenance of the state's park system, signing legislation that attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions by having automakers produce more efficient vehicles, cutting fees to state parks and opposing offshore drilling, he was criticized for not backing tougher restrictions on timber companies as some environmentalists desired.

While California's economy was expanding, California was producing record budget surpluses under Davis even after his tax cuts and new spending.

While touring in support of El Cielo, Dredg began work on their third album, Catch Without Arms, spending 8 months writing material before taking another 10 months to record and mix the album.

While spending nine years working in CIA counter-intelligence, he declared an annual income of $ 60, 000 but his plastic spending of up to $ 30, 000 a month funded a lifestyle that included a new Jaguar and a $ 540, 000 house ( 2011 value: $) paid for in cash.

While some analysts argue that Getty's fiscal program laid the groundwork for Ralph Klein's later balancing of the provincial budget, on Getty's departure from office the government's debt had reached $ 11 billion, setting the stage for his successor to characterize the Getty years as an era of wasteful and excessive spending.

While the P. C. s made spending promises including paving all of the province's secondary highways, the Liberals — who had returned to the legislature in the 1986 election after fifteen years in the political wilderness — under new leader Laurence Decore stressed dealing with the deficit.

While stationed in Hawaii, he joined the Army's Special Services unit, spending the next years touring the Pacific entertaining the troops.

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While in Cuba, Khadr worked to obtain information from his fellow inmates before spending five additional months at the Camp X-Ray prison, where he claims to have been given training as an undercover CIA operative.

While the state faced an economic slowdown and steep budget cuts, Gibbons faced criticism from officials for spending less time at his office.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

While most of his beliefs were still unsettled, he knew that he did not believe in killing.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While 2-year-olds are still gaining most of the attention at the track, green horses are starting to go a bit, and Jimmy Cruise has several that can really make it.

While some suppression and some denial are not only necessary but healthy, the worker's clinical knowledge must determine how these defenses are being used, what healthy shifts in defensive adaptation are indicated, and when efforts at bringing about change can be most effectively timed.

While patent suits are still among the most complex and expensive forms of litigation, these rules have saved litigants uncounted sums of money.

While both sexes state that kindness is the most preferable trait in a partner there is some evidence that men place less value on this than women and that women may not be more altruistic in presence of an attractive man.

While most alphabets have letters composed of lines ( linear writing ), there are also exceptions such as the alphabets used in Braille, fingerspelling, and Morse code.

While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

While most everyone has an experience with anxiety at some point in their lives, as it is a common reaction to real or perceived threats of all kinds, most do not develop long-term problems with anxiety.

While casuistry makes use of ethical theory, it does not view ethical theory as the most important feature of moral reasoning.

While resistant to most beta lactam antibiotics commonly used for skin infections, it remains sensitive to alternative antibiotics, e. g., clindamycin ( Cleocin ), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole ( Bactrim ), and doxycycline ( unlike hospital-acquired MRSA that may only be sensitive to vancomycin IV ).

While the amount of winter snowfall varied greatly, the Ancient Pueblo depended on the snow for most of their water.

While in the city, there are many buses and taxi services one can take to get from place to place, but most of the locals choose to walk to their destinations.

While these positions were well suited for most of his local constituency, this was not the case when he stepped outside that region politically.

While owning steel works, Carnegie had purchased at low cost the most valuable of the iron ore fields around Lake Superior.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

While some fans applauded the redesign, most of the reaction to the new color scheme, which included the changing of the historical purple and traditional Arizonan colors of copper and turquoise to a reddish color known as " Sedona Red " similar to that of the Phoenix Coyotes and Arizona Cardinals color schemes, was pointedly negative.

While a flood will kill most plants living low on the ground in a certain area, if there is rice there, it will thrive in the wet conditions.

While flame and electrothermal vaporizers are the most common atomization techniques, several other atomization methods are utilized for specialized use.

While " distortion " can include arbitrary deformation of an image, the most pronounced modes of distortion produced by conventional imaging optics is " barrel distortion ", in which the center of the image is magnified more than the perimeter ( figure 7a ).

While in the view of most American academics the two were as diametrically opposed as good and evil, Sakharov believed that in this " tragic confrontation of two outstanding people ," both deserved respect, because " each of them was certain he had right on his side and was morally obligated to go to the end in the name of truth.