Its business was winning elections and dividing the spoils and for decades it did that very efficiently.
With the marathon off, the city will no longer need to worry about appearances and dividing its resources.
Tactics include avoiding the hiring of rabble-rousers (something Wal-Mart is accused of) and dividing people into teams, which bolsters morale and makes complainers unpopular.
This post concerns potential estate tax saving from establishing a separate revocable trust for each spouse and dividing the marital estate between the two trusts.
When this compound is present in sufficient amounts, the pyruvate kinase enzyme stops generating fuel for cells and instead pushes cells towards growing and dividing.
But they also point to a new cosmopolitan cesspool, where a similar set of worries beset every strata of society, uniting and dividing it along new lines.
They were adding up the national total spent on child care, and dividing it by the number of hours women worked to get the per hour cost of care.
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Adding up the earnings from the past four quarters and dividing them by the share price gives an indication of how much return an investor is getting for his money.
The report made a series of further recommendations including independent forensic examinations, an independent body to investigate and prosecute torturers, witness protection and dividing prisoners up according to the seriousness of their crimes.
Her first big idea: she proposed measuring the time each developer spent in front of his or her computer, and dividing it by the revenue brought in by the products that person created.
Calculations by scientists, who are forever totting up times but are often bad at mental arithmetic, will also be much easier if they can just move decimal points instead of multiplying and dividing.
She made her Carnegie Hall debut a few months later in a passionate version of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, captivating audiences and dividing critics with her eccentric, heartfelt interpretations and expressive facial and physical gestures.
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Nor would it be feasible to phase in the move to Malpensa: airlines that shift first would be at a disadvantage, and dividing the traffic of individual airlines between both Milan airports would double their costs.
McCrory, House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger apparently intend to be the new George Wallaces, adopting the same Southern Strategy of blocking the vote and dividing our state further into haves and have-nots.
He addressed issues like fighting intimidation from the Islamist radicals and their friends, shining the light of truth on them to expose their ideology and intentions, building effective if unusual political alliances, using satire, and dividing and conquering.
In July, Mr Moi's policemen put down pro-reform demonstrations with a ferocity that provoked an international chorus of condemnation: the president was pictured as the last of Africa's old-school leaders, maintaining himself in power by bribing his opponents and dividing them along ethnic lines.
The first step was to figure out the dimensions of the problem, which required analyzing a sample of Examiner stories and dividing them into four categories: very good or better (20 percent of the sample), good (30 percent), acceptable (20 percent) and poor (30 percent).
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Expenses were calculated by taking the average number of per capita miles driven in each state (from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics) and dividing them by an assumed 20 miles per gallon per vehicle (the average between cars and light trucks, used by the Department of Energy for emissions tests).
Data are derived by first converting GDP in national currency to U.S. dollars and then dividing it by total population.
But amid insatiable media coverage for the contest, daily polls gauging the candidates' progress and with issues such as Iraq and the economy dividing the nation, has politics replaced sports and reality TV as the conversational topic of choice around the office water cooler?
The responsibility extends from the U.S. forces on the West Coast of the United States and Alaska to a dividing line between India and Pakistan.
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We pushed forward in the spring and reached a line not far from that dividing North and South Korea today.
Guinea owes its peacefulness (a recent coup attempt and minor uprising aside) to a strong, centralised army and its rulers' flair for dividing their acolytes and battering dissenters.
In this document, Japan and the United States clearly show their determination to utilize their respective capabilities and resources to the maximum extent possible dividing up responsibilities and roles for the peace and prosperity not only of the Asia Pacific, but of the world.
And that's not unreasonable, given the fact that he and Giuliani were dividing moderate Republicans.
"Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country, " Pfeiffer said.
Load balancing means dividing and distributing the workload between multiple base stations.
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Over the years thousands of ingenious East Germans made it through, around, over, and under the Wall and other fortifications dividing the two Germanys.
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By dividing and conquering, prosecutors can move up the chain by using information given by the two employees who pleaded guilty to get others, he said.
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