It acts as a link to a more glorious past (real or imagined) and leads people to attribute - justifiably or otherwise - to the possessor positive qualities the name might have once stood for.
The three-cone drill is used to measure short-area quickness, which is a key attribute in Houston's zone-blocking offense.
Self-Awareness: If I could only choose one attribute to have, I would choose self-awareness.
So Bear Stearns, the financial products division of AIG -- neither of them very big, Long-Term Capital Management -- size is not, I think, the single attribute that we feel should be focused on.
Executives attribute the drop-off to rising jet fuel prices, combined with declining air travel.
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A.s brought with them sophisticated, quantitative, attribute-based techniques for segmenting markets and assessing market potential.
These choices can be made through attribute-based (faceted) search on the site itself.
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Most people attribute the tech-stock boom to the madness of crowds, like the tulipomania of the 1600s and the South Sea Bubble of the early 1700s.
The research shows the attribute of risk-taking that results in immigrants taking a chance on a new land in many cases can be passed along to their children.
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They attribute criticism to anti-Semitism, which is rising again.
But 20 percent of the population or 12 million people smoke in France, and more than 70, 000 reportedly die every year from what doctors attribute to smoking-related illnesses which many French people, at least in my experience, instead attribute to prolonged exposure to American culture.
German sources attribute a 400, 000-tonne drop in coal production in May 1943 to the damage caused.
But her most important attribute was her talent for myth-making.
If we stream a film on Netflix or buy a book on Amazon, those companies are leveraging huge product-attribute datasets and ratings of millions of users to help us make just the right purchase.
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Some Suharto-watchers attribute the apparent breakdown of family discipline to the death of the president's wife, Tien, in April 1996.
And I tell that story partly because it brings a smile to my face, but also because it captures the quiet, dogged, dignified persistence that all of us who loved Dr. Height came to know so well -- an attribute that we understand she learned early on.
They attribute the decline to storms, a coral-feeding starfish and bleaching linked to climate change.
Or to attribute wealth to work (and enduring less-than-fully-satisfying conditions).
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We can attribute some of this skepticism to the Comcast-NBC merger and concerns that control on content creation as well as distribution will affect cable networks and cable operators alike.
Industry experts like Ross attribute the fur frenzy to its newfound accessibility -- no longer associated only with the rich, grandmotherly set, it has caught on with a younger, hipper crowd.
Though it's tempting to attribute the Long Peace to nuclear deterrence, non-nuclear developed states have stopped fighting each other as well.
Those trends may partly reflect a growing tendency to attribute the nation's prosperity to the high-technology industry rather than decisions in Washington.
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French isn't sure just what that attribute is, but there is something about second-rate companies and industries that makes investors shy away.
Analysts attribute the staffing increase largely to expected production of low-cost iPhones.
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If so, following them over the years also picks up the happiness effect of ageing - which we might falsely attribute to marriage.
So I would like to know, what do you attribute the dropout rate among Hispanics in the United States -- 15 percent -- and what plans do you have to change that?
While they have both just celebrated 800 years of scholarly study, the key attribute Oxford and Cambridge universities share is a fierce pride - and a powerful urge to put one over on their rival.
You gotta love this crazy man and the hype. (Not to mention his miracle put-back on a Kobe Bryant miss at the buzzer to win Game 5 between the Suns and Lakers in the Western Conference Finals.) Who else but Artest, in a trademark bizarre post-game interview, would attribute his championship performance to his psychiatrist?
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Companies that have increased time-off opportunities don't attribute their better retention rates to these practices.
That's an attribute we clearly want to see from them in the 15-a-side game.
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