Burgundians believe a wine's character is derived principally from the plot of land the vine is planted on, which is graded by a classification system based on the vineyard, village and subdistrict.

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Cannon was known as the "census taker in the sky, " and developed a stellar classification system that became the standard of the Harvard Observatory.

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These vehicles' front passenger airbags may not deploy in the event of a crash because of a possible problem with their occupant classification system, which gauges the size of a passenger and based on that whether an air bag should be deployed.

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With its new manual, the APA might instead have started taking steps toward a system of classification that, as in medicine, organizes disorders according to what we know about their natures and causes.

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The manual's classification system also has been a major factor in decisions involving grant funding and scientific publications.

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Totemism, for example, was a system as complex as the Linnaean classification.

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This step moves us closer to meeting the recent Jobs Council recommendation to enable regulations to be searched by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, (NAICS is a standard used by Federal agencies in classifying industry).

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