Pile: long heavy section of timber, concrete or metal, driven into the earth or seabed as support for another structure.
The fluctuations can be thought of as the seeds for all the structure that later developed in the cosmos - all the stars and galaxies.
On the SLS Roadster, the supporting structure for the draught-stop is made as standard as a carbon sandwich structure.
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And the company is talking about doing something similar as it changes its compensation structure for its salespeople.
The banker's philosophy about making credit decisions was to use the concepts of asset enhancement and liabilities reduction as a framework for looking at financial structure and power.
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The high-level executive hire came as Goldman announced a new management structure for the firm post-Paulson.
Some analysts cited the bond's aggressive structure as a major reason for its decline.
No word as yet as to what this means for the organizational structure behind the customer interface.
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This success was a result of a good decision-making model being in place within the Buccaneers structure as well an appetite for investment.
CDO, however, and in a credit squeeze they fall together, by virtue of being in the same murky structure, as investors rush for the exit or seek to hedge their risks.
Plans for the radical restructuring of the 43 forces in Wales and England were revealed last September when the Inspectorate of Constabulary described police structure as no longer "fit for purpose".
The IBM chip uses the structure of the human brain as map for the design of the circuits in their chip.
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Kinder Morgan was the first to take the MLP structure and use it as the platform for an aggressive growth strategy.
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Ward Ferry's fund charges a management fee of 1.5% and takes 15% of profits as a performance fee-a typical fee structure for a hedge-fund.
Health insurance in Massachusetts, for example, uses a similar structure as the Affordable Care Act, with an exchange, a personal responsibility requirement, and an employer responsibility requirement.
As for advising governments of emerging economies how best to structure their legal systems, various essays in the dictionary stress the importance of clear property rights, and of ensuring that these are marketable.
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To condense his subject into manageable chunks, Mr Winchester uses Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a structure: the infant is a metaphor for man's first interest in the ocean, the schoolboy represents its exploration, and so on.
Today, there are 25 countries around the world that have adopted the REIT (or REIT-like) structure as a tax-efficient way for small investors to achieve the many benefits of owning an indirect interest in high-quality, well-located and professionally-managed income-producing real estate.
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As a result, the VIE structure became a necessity for these companies to list on overseas exchanges.
This structure will streamline the process for Governors as they seek assistance for longer-term projects and identify community redevelopment priorities.
This relates to the weight gain disadvantage, as the engineers must attempt to compensate for the loss of structure (the roof) by reinforcing the lower parts of the body.
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Braque, an equally rigorous painter, would later be described, for the precision and structure of his pictures, as the Chardin of cubism.
The rumors that the airline may seek bankruptcy protection have been making the rounds for a while now as the airline has a burdensome cost structure compared to peers like Delta Airline or United Continental.
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Is an incubator structure really necessary for something that has been around as long as open source?
"If it had managed to hang on for another decade it would have possibly been celebrated as an historic structure, " he said.
Because of the secretive nature of what they do, as well as the lack of any official organizational structure, no official spokesperson for Antisec or Anonymous came forward to take credit for the hack.
The typical program structure ties premium costs for the enrollee to income as a percentage of the poverty level, which, in effect, creates a sliding subsidy scale offering more support to low income individuals.
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ISOs can be informally likened to nonqualified retirement plans, which are also typically geared for those at the top of the corporate structure, as opposed to qualified plans, which must be offered to all employees.
Britain played a significant role in the development of Metop, building the service structure and propulsion modules for all three spacecraft, as well as providing MHS (Microwave Humidity Sounder) - an instrument that retrieves important information about humidity in the atmosphere - for Metop and its American counterparts.
The Neanderthals who built the structure also obviously lived in it for quite some time as 25 different hearths were found inside.
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