The new BX system board had a hearty laugh--the old memory was far too slow.
Gene Powell, chairman of the UT System Board of Regents, said the partnership with edX is intended to help them reach a "wide range of students, raise graduation rates and cut the cost of higher education".
The Bulgarian lev is reliably linked to the euro via a currency-board system.
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Park learned to program motion-graphics synchronized to dance music and ran a BBS, an electronic bulletin board system, the precursor to the Internet.
What about China and Hong Kong, where the currencies are pegged to the dollar through a managed float and currency board system, respectively?
One reason for this is that Hong Kong's currency-board system (see article) is forcing the former colony to confront its past financial excesses swiftly.
The first newsgroups and discussion groups appeared in the early years of the Internet, around 1980, and the bulletin board system allowed topic-related discussion groups from 1990 on.
Not even the two-party opposition Alliance, critical as it is of unemployment, still around 13%, dares to suggest printing money (the currency-board system forbids it) as a cure.
Yet it does attempt to improve Germany's two-tier board system in particular, by making supervisory boards better guardians of shareholders' interests, despite the presence on these boards of workers' representatives and ex-managers.
He says when he was 14 he got an Apple II, and he set up a bulletin board system, before CompUServe and AOL. He says he saw the power of sharing.
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It's driven some to search Google through a Bulletin Board System-like interface or, in the case of programmer Peter Nitsch, it's compelled him to graft ASCII art onto the physical world.
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Costa Cruises has been informed that today at 10:39, Italian time, a fire developed on board Costa Allegra in the engine room, the local electric generators located at the stern. procedures and the system of fire board were promptly activated and the special brigades of the board have occurred, the fire was extinguished and did not extend to any other area of the ship.
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Under the new system the clinical commissioning board will take charge of overseeing the NHS from the Department of Health.
It is an off-board navigation system so that customers always have the advantage of the most up-to-date mapping information available.
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Like any fixed exchange-rate system, a currency board offers the prospect of a stable exchange rate, which can promote both trade and investment.
The on-board entertainment system is as cool as it gets.
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Laurenzi's statement comes after Braun publicly blasted Major League Baseball's drug testing system and an arbitration board tossed out a 50-game suspension imposed as the result of the drug test Braun took last year.
The researchers examined the prevailing inspection system called On-Board Diagnostics II (OBD-II), which tests for excessive carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, and also checks the power-train systems for problems that might eventually lead to elevated emissions levels.
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In theory, if executive pay rose too high because it was set in a market dominated by cronyism (ie, a board of directors who are chums of the boss, who appointed them), then shouldn't a move to a system in which the board actually tries to get value for the shareholders' money result in lower pay?
The missiles in the on-board Bulava weapons system have multiple warheads and a range of more than 8, 000km (5, 000 miles).
Are Indonesian banks any less flawed or crude than those of Bulgaria or Estonia (which had a dysfunctional banking system prior to its currency board)?
According to it, Nintendo has a new "game system" on the drawing board that incorporates acceleration sensors in a "housing" to detect movement and direction.
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Its legally registered motto, "Everything out in the open, " was a none-too-subtle slap at the Big Board's clubby system and repeated scandals.
Mr. Tikvesa prints out an extra boarding pass for the passenger's connecting flight so he can scan them into Delta's computer system once the passenger is on board.
Nasdaq and NYSE Group (nyse: NYX - news - people ) hit record volumes last week, without the messaging system problems that plagued the Big Board one fateful day in late-February.
The PCB is attached to the watch with a maze of wires, and allows the team to prototype new software and debug the system before commissioning the final miniature board that will go inside the shipping product.
The United Federation of Teachers also asked a state labor board to intervene in a standoff with the city over a teacher-evaluation system at most of those schools, though the city said the board had no right to weigh in on the matter.
As communicated in the July 30 Franchise Weekly Update , a hacker claims to have compromised the Onity brand guestroom lock system with a device containing a circuit board with several wires attached.
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Argentina, Latin America's fastest-growing economy last year, has the most rigid exchange-rate system of all, with a currency board that fixes by law the value of the peso at parity with the dollar, and thus limits the money supply to the level of foreign currency reserves.
Stocks in the Over-The-Counter market are quoted on systems like the OTC Bulletin Board, an electronic quotation system, and the Pink Sheets, which is not registered as a stock exchange and is named for the color of paper on which its listings of price quotes for companies have historically been printed.
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