SHANGHAI, Oct. 10 — The match-ups for the finals of the three main events at the world bridge championships here have been decided, with an American team in each.
Six of those were decided with a majority vote of five justices, and five of those decisions favored the chamber's side.
Victory No. 2 for the top-ranked Blue Devils was decided with a 19-0 run over the last five minutes of the first half.
There's something newsworthy about the decisions, though, at least in the aggregate: Three of four were decided with a five-four split, which will surely add to the impression that the court, like the country, is bitterly divided.
Drugs to treat people at the end of life should be judged more leniently, it was decided, with a cost-effectiveness threshold higher than the usual £30,000 for a year of good-quality life.
Almería beat Real Sociedad 4-3 in a crazy match that was the start of their bid for survival: the victory pulled them out of the relegation zone and was decided with a 91st-minute goal by an 18-year-old kid called Hicham Khaloua, who was making his debut and had only been on the pitch for four minutes.
Just as there are modes of play that conceal ambition, because they seem to show a tepid approach, as though holding out an olive branch, there are those that look so aggressive that they seem on the verge of exploding at any minute, and the game is decided with a roll of a bomb.
In practice, the transition probabilities may be decided with a model-fitting approach such as those proposed in [16].
The final basic regression models were decided with a backwards elimination procedure using a significance threshold of ≥0.1 for elimination of excessive independent variables.
It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a preference for the least restrictive alternative.
