And Adam McNichol - one of the few teaching this subject who has a computer science degree - told us the whole education system needed to change, so that the value of the subject was recognised.
The result is that taxation on the lowest incomes is very low, and the overall system has a high degree of progressivity despite modest top rates.
While the tidal wave of steeply discounted hotel properties didn't occur to the degree expected, a number of distressed properties still are winding through the system and selling on a one-off basis, said Jan Freitag, senior vice president of STR Global, a lodging research firm.
By sucking 55-degree heat out of the ground and concentrating it, the heat pump is able to deliver 110-degree heat into the warm air ducts of a central heating system.
Only the academia has followed the M-R system with any degree of consistency.
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The point of managed care was to introduce a degree of rationing into a health-care system that, by the late 1980s, was suffering from inflation of 15% a year or even more.
The Little Devil chassis used for the purpose of this demo has an LED screen displaying the -40-degree operating temperature, but you won't need it: the system automatically shuts down if it gets too cold, and it won't boot into Windows until Phase Change is up and running.
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And there was a sustained expansion of the higher-education system: the share of working-age adults with a university degree rose from 5% in 1980 to 14% in 1996 and 31% in 2011, a faster increase than in France, Germany or the US. The combination of these policies helped the UK to bridge the GDP-per-capita gap with other leading nations.
If we stop tomorrow, there's enough thermal energy in the system to warm the planet another degree Fahrenheit.
We are perhaps already a few tenths of a degree above the Holocene maximum, and the system seems to be in the early stages of rapid change.
It is not a new idea, but it is a necessary step in creating a system that recognizes voice with the degree of reliability that people have come to expect from traditional typing.
This gets beyond a 360 degree view of the customer to creating a single system of engagement corporate-wide.
To be a real critic of the education system and the trendy reforms of the day, one has to abandon, to whatever degree possible, tribalism.
That was when Microsoft forced its myriad Websites to adopt a system that analyzes content according to the degree to which it contains sex, nudity, violence or obscene language.
That risk would amount to something only if deeper trouble in South Korea caused Japanese banks to fold, if Japan's authorities then failed to contain that crisis in their own monetary system, and (assuming the highest degree of contagion) if Western central banks then failed to protect theirs.
For instance, the elaborate system of manifolds and pipes had to be designed to avoid any 90-degree corners, so the bulky material used in the junk shot didn't get stuck.
Universities have complained that the current A-level system does not stretch pupils sufficiently or give them the intellectual independence and curiosity needed for degree-level study.
Guillain Barre syndrome is a disease of the nervous system which causes numbness and weakness and a degree of paralysis.
Heart-rate variability, says Dr Stein, is a good index of the degree of control an individual has over his autonomic nervous system (which controls many of the internal organs).
Whether or not Gordon Brown's Treasury had an excessively optimistic view of the budget deficit, he certainly severely underestimated the degree to which Her Majesty's Government would be on the hook if Britain's world-beating financial system got into trouble: The financial sector bailouts account for eight percentage points of the overshoot in our debt.
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MB's Active Body Control suspension system is standard on the SL550, and the degree to which ABC negates body pitch, roll and squat is almost eerie.
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The joints in its fingers, thumb and wrist provide 24 degrees of freedom (a degree of freedom is the ability of one part of a system to move independently of the others in a particular way, as a ship may yaw, pitch or roll).
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To a degree, multi-system Europe exists already, in the euro and in the Schengen rules on crossing frontiers.
The Center believes that the necessary degree of protection can only be acquired by deploying an orbiting defense system, perhaps with a modest underlay of ground-based interceptors.
Mike Kerr, IBM's vice president of products for Web servers, says that the system is intended for companies that have workloads requiring a high degree of scalability.
After all, there is going to be some unfairness in a system that has only half the population getting a four-year degree.
Unfortunately, the majority of our colleges and universities lack degree programs focused on energy, and the U.S. power engineering education system is on the decline.
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All Nintendo will have to distinguish itself from its future competitors is its controller (which will likely be copied to some degree) and its stable of original IPs which are the reason anyone buys a Nintendo system.
The mobile HDVC system delivers high-definition visuals with MPEG4-AVC technology and features 360-degree full duplex stereo sound quality, stable connectivity with QoS, and rate control forward error correction.
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Alternately, we could encourage the university system to be more responsive to market forces by creating a no-frills, federal degree-granting body that awards certificates to students who pass exams in a given subject.
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