After a battle in the American courts these particular whales have been defined by their culture, and that culture is deemed endangered.
These and many more platforms have been defined by Facebook, primarily by the notion that a greater freedom of expression, and greater ease of communications, are central to being more competitive.
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In recent years, defined contribution plans have been steadily replacing defined benefit plans across most industries.
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In total, the Brewers have been infamously defined by 28 losing seasons since its inception as the Seattle Pilots in 1969.
The terms of what makes up a "public authority" have not been defined in the Act, but will include government departments, local authorities, police, prison, immigration officers, public prosecutors and courts.
To assuage the fears of those who worry that the new rules will be abused or foster endless uncertainty, the situations in which re-trials can be permitted have been tightly defined.
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Meanwhile, many employees in the private sector have been switched into defined-contribution schemes, where their retirement income is dependent on investment performance.
But defined-contribution plans also have a significant foothold in the public sector: most public universities, where faculty have been covered by defined-contribution plans for decades.
It's just possible that future historians may not include all the above events in their accounts of the 21st century - "historic" appears to have been re-defined in Wales as "something quite interesting that hasn't happened before".
The truth is that defined contribution plans have been a mess since their inception.
Since 1995, yields have been in a pretty well-defined downward channel, line d and e.
The fears about loss of privacy expressed by some consumers have always been a little ill-defined and overly general.
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Clients are investing in risk management to understand and control their business to see if traders are following defined processes that have been put in place.
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Thus, the proposed Jewish state would have been much smaller than the Israel defined by the armistice lines negotiated at the end of the 1948-49 war.
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So then think of stocks that are in basically stable and strong fields, with a defined franchise, that have been beaten up in the bear market and likely overly so.
Companies have also, sensibly, been switching from defined-benefit schemes, under which the company bears the risk of maintaining pension payments, to defined-contribution plans, in which the risk lies with individual pensioners.
But in this instance, the very definition and parameters of this fiscal cliff have been known for months and were actually defined by the very people who were not able to act.
Moreover, the booming stockmarket has helped to hold down labour costs: the increase in the value of pension funds' assets means that employers have been able to reduce their payments into defined-benefits pension plans.
But it will face tough competition from BAE Systems, the only company that managed to be a key player in all of the originally conceived software-defined radios that would have been used by Army helicopters, ground vehicles and dismounted troops.
The staff who will gain from the package of changes are those in the defined contribution section, which new recruits have been offered since 2001.
Those, of course, largely have been replaced with 401(k) and other "defined-contribution" plans, in which workers shoulder all of the risk involved in making their savings last.
Regulated utilities, which sell power to business and residential customers in defined geographic areas at negotiated rates, have been outperforming the companies, like independent power producers, that operate in unregulated markets.
Another beneficial effect is that American employers with defined-benefit pension plans for employees have been able to reduce their contributions into pension funds as the rise in share prices has swollen the value of funds' assets.
Typically staff have been forced to contribute to less generous career-average or defined-contribution schemes.
These two groups have been traditionally unable to work productively and collaboratively since they were defined into different roles.
This means attempting to identify every relevant trial of a given question (including studies that have never been published), choosing the best ones using clearly defined criteria for quality, and combining the results in a statistically valid way.
Obama administration officials have been wrestling with the challenge of funding retirement across lengthening lifetimes and amid dwindling traditional "defined-benefit" pension plans.
Since the reform of Italy's penal code in 1989, trials have been transferred very rarely to new jurisdictions, because the circumstances in which that can happen are narrowly defined, partly to prevent defendants from shopping around for favourable judges.
The high cost of pensions and health care for retirees has long been a burden for American automakers, which have tried to rein in costs by freezing their traditional defined benefit plans and steering workers toward new 401(k) retirement savings programs.
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