And you only have to look under the hood or crawl beneath the car to see a technological nightmare: A low-compression flathead V-8, cloth wrapped wires, a crude carburetor, leaf springs and no shocks, big mechanical brakes that were about as useful as an anchor, and a differential the size of a melon, to appreciate that this car was a polluting, rattling, death trap.
His rationale was to give his team a better chance of scoring more, since total run differential is a factor in determining which teams advance in the tournament.
Since the intangible benefits of buying a hybrid are difficult to quantify, calculating the payback usually focuses on the specific hybrid you buy, sales price differential to a standard car, projected gas costs, maintenance costs and tax rebates.
In general, is a differential between cap gains taxes and personal income and corporate rates a spur to capital formation and entrepreneurship?
That meant recruiting two clever instruments with long-winded names a differential scanning calorimeter, which measures the thermal properties of the mixture as it is sorted, and a nuclear-magnetic resonance spectrometer, which measures its chemical properties.
It's entirely arbitrary to treat differential rates for different levels of income as a structural feature of the tax code but differential rates for different types of income as a tax expenditure.
This double taxation is one reason the U.S. has long had a differential tax rate for capital gains.
Differential tuition is a variant of performance-based funding, a system of allocating state higher education resources based on performance metrics such as degree completion.
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Therefore, Kaplan says, find out the time differential between when a retailer places its orders with vendors and ultimately receives the merchandise in the store--the lead time.
And while I have long since forgotten how to solve a differential equation, I did learn how to drink responsibly (no tequila shots on an empty stomach).
Thanks to the information revolution, the rewards for university study are growing: in 1997 college graduates earned 77% more than high school graduates, up from a differential of 58% in 1975.
There has been a strong differential in favor of Samsung over the past 90 days.
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Aston Villa was only two points ahead of Wigan while having a goal differential four goals worse.
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The second-highest-paid pitcher on our list, Johnson had a FPEN of 10.35, giving him a value differential of one.
This is a small differential, but is the magnet sucking in money market deposits from all over the world.
We then compared each everyday player's (minimum 370 at bats) productivity ranking to his salary ranking to record a value differential.
Moreover, one would expect reductions in job security to require a compensating differential even to maintain the current level of supply.
Rodriguez, for instance, ranks first in pay and fifth in production (his FTPN was 605), for a value differential of minus 4.
Much like a mechanical limited-slip differential, torque vectoring subtly pulses the brake of the inside front wheel in a corner, directing more torque to the outside wheel, actually helping bend the car into a corner.
But a shrinking price differential between them has apparently induced some Bud drinkers to trade up to Corona.
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That is, a smaller pay differential between men and women gives married women sufficient incentive to invest in education and careers.
It has also adopted a policy of differential pricing for some drugs.
The prospect of a widening yield differential has boosted the appeal to the single currency despite the backdrop of simmering sovereign debt turmoil.
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But a movie like No Robots has a different power differential.
After making similar allowances for skills and experience, the World Bank reckons that union membership increases a South African worker's wages by 25-35%, a much higher differential than is found in other countries.
They not only claimed the much needed three points, but they also erased a three goal differential deficit to Newcastle and went ahead of them based upon the goal differential tiebreaker via their 6-1 win.
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Convert two of those comeback wins or a few of the ties to losses via an unlucky break or two, and United is right back where they found themselves at the end of last season (albeit with a worse goal differential this year).
On February 10 the differential was only 146 bp, a bit more than 100 bp less than the historical average.
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