While the Chicago River historically handled much of the region's waterborne cargo, today's huge lake freighters use the city's Lake Calumet Harbor on the South Side.

While the original Grand Guignol attempted to present naturalistic horror, the performances would seem melodramatic and heightened to today's audience.

While the classic guidelines still apply, today's anti-guerrilla forces need to accept a more disruptive, disorderly and ambiguous mode of operation.

While the Eve of Pentecost was traditionally a day of fasting for Catholics, today's canon law no longer requires it.

While the fundamental technology underlying the Marathon engine is still considered rather outdated by today's standards, Aleph One has added significant improvements and a more modern polish to its capabilities and ported it to a wide variety of platforms, bringing Marathon and its derivatives far beyond their Mac roots.

While Germany had a semi-presidential system during the Weimar Republic, today's presidential office is mainly supervising and ceremonial, with the Chancellor of Germany generally seen as wielding the effective power and guideline authority in everyday politics.

While not much by today's standards, in the 1980s this was largely unheard of.

While government policy and public debate in France in recent years has returned to a valorization of regional differences and a call for decentralization of certain aspects of the public sphere ( sometimes with ethnic, racial or reactionary overtones ), the history of regional displacement and the nature of the modern urban environment and of mass media and culture have made the preservation of a regional " sense of place or culture " in today's France extremely difficult.

While stationed at Tubac ( 1760 – 1776 ), de Anza built the chapel of Santa Gertrudis, the foundations of which lie beneath today's St. Ann's Church.

While only six teams raced in 1923, today's Rangeland Derby consists of 36 teams competing for $ 1. 15 million in prize money.

While both Michelangelo and a painting of the Swiss Guard bearing Pope Julius II on a litter ( by Raphael ) are often cited as inspiration for the Swiss Guard uniform, the actual uniforms worn by those soldiers are of the style which appears by today's standards as a large skirt, a common style in uniforms during the Renaissance.

While most modern telemark skis are virtually identical to today's alpine skis, they differ in one critical way ; the heel of the skier's boot is detached from the ski.

While energy-saving features have been instituted in personal computers for when they are idle, the overall consumption of today's high-performance CPUs is considerable.

While no such complete system has ever become common in milk production, many of its features are in everyday use in today's rotary milking parlors.

While the vast majority of correspondence art or mail art activities take place in the mail, today's new forms of electronic communication blur the edges of that forum.

While the kibbutzim lasted for several generations as utopian communities, most of today's kibbutzim are scarcely different from the capitalist enterprises and regular towns to which the kibbutzim were originally supposed to be alternatives.

While today's land-grant universities were initially known as land-grant colleges, only a few of the more than 70 institutions that developed from the Morrill Acts retain " College " in their official names ; most are universities.

While the Sonett V4 was assembled in Sweden, nearly the entire production was exported to the United States, with a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price of between US $ 3, 200 and US $ 3, 800 ($ to $ in today's dollars ).

While the terms " scientific management " and " Taylorism " are often treated as synonymous, an alternative view considers Taylorism as the first form of scientific management, which was followed by new iterations ; thus in today's management theory, Taylorism is sometimes called ( or considered a subset of ) the classical perspective ( meaning a perspective that's still respected for its seminal influence although it is no longer state-of-the-art ).

While today's classical music tradition in Iran bears the same names of some of the modes of that era it is impossible to know if they sound the same because there is no evidence of musical notation from the Sassanid period.

While never reaching a level of accuracy comparable to today's standards of timekeeping, the water clock was the most accurate and commonly used timekeeping device for millennia, until it was replaced by more accurate pendulum clocks in 17th century Europe.

While some have argued that the Pennsylvania System was Quaker-inspired, there is little evidence to support this ; the organization that promoted Eastern State's creation, the Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons ( today's Pennsylvania Prison Society ) was in fact less than half Quaker, and was led for nearly fifty years by Philadelphia's Anglican bishop, William White.

While their research was never incorporated in any aircraft at that time, the crude HUD mockup they built had all the features of today's modern HUD units.

While some Native American artists criticized the award category for being " too narrowly defined to accommodate the breadth of today's Indian music ", others took pride in its inclusion.

While some consumers simply interpreted high fidelity as fancy and expensive equipment, many found the difference in quality between " hi-fi " and the then standard AM radios and 78 rpm records readily apparent and bought 33⅓ LPs, such as RCA's New Orthophonics and London's ffrrs, and high-fidelity phonographs.

While principally a data network, Link 16 radios can provide high quality voice channels and navigation services as accurate as any in the inventory.

While most pocket radios will operate satisfactorily at this voltage, some manufacturers such as Varta made 8. 4 volt batteries with seven cells for more critical applications.

While he was studying to be an accountant, he continued to teach himself electronics, and tinker with radios and other electrical items but never took any kind of electronics course.

While a boy, Ayyash showed a talent for electrical and mechanical work — repairing radios, television sets, and the like.

While jobsite and government radios are often rated in power output, consumer radios are frequently and controversially rated in mile or kilometer ratings.

While not an absolute record, it was the largest total ever achieved by a DX-pedition where the members lived in tents and powered their radios by portable generators.

While WABC was busy broadcasting New York Mets baseball games in the summer of 1963, WMCA was the music-intensive station that one would hear coming out of transistor radios at the pool and the beach ; starting in 1963, the Good Guys were really on their game.

While older network types theoretically allocated two 25 – 30 kHz channels per conversation, in practice some radios would cause interference on neighbouring channels making them unusable, and a single radio may broadcast too strong a oval to let nearby cells reuse the same channel.

While high fidelity previously required large turntables, tape decks and speakers, the changing technology of music formats have made small bookshelf systems, Bose desktop radios, and iPod based speaker systems which can also produce music of high quality and serve as music entertainment systems, making large component systems again a niche high-end market.

# While mechanical variable capacitors have been used and are still used extensively in electronics, their use in radios is diminishing.

While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

While there are now allegations of the withholding of `` favorable evidence developed at the hearing '' and a denial of a `` full and fair hearing '', no such claim was made by petitioner at any stage of the administrative process.

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 individual sportsmen are aware of this situation, too many of our political, social, educational and even religious leaders too often forget 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 there are many different possibilities for the timing of casework intervention, the experiments recently reported from a variety of traditional settings all point up the importance of an immediate response to the client's initial need for help.

While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

While ATP appears to be necessary for the occurrence of contraction, its presence and enzymatic hydrolysis of it by the muscle protein myosin are not the only criteria for contraction.

While there are still many bugs to be ironed out, the technique is fast developing.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

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

While details are still to be worked out, Ratcliff said he expects to tell home folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry's proposed constitutional amendment should be rejected.

While availability of mortgage money has been a factor in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the apartment-building field.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

While we are filling outer space with scientific successes, for many the `` inner '' space of their soul is an aching void.

While there is general agreement on these six families, there are some points of disagreement among linguists who study Afroasiatic.

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.