Is science fiction considered so low-brow we're happy to dump a bunch of "fucks" and clunky social commentary all over it and call it art?
The application of Tungsten Carbide is considered, so that a compromise between low weight and high absorption is found, to achieve allowed radiation dose rate after reactor shutdown.
Low-speed user movement was considered, so that Doppler spread could be discarded.
But Green was stung when he was forced to take a $750,000 pay cut to remain with the Jets last year, and this time around, his agent considered the Jets' offer so low -- the minimum $650,000 base salary and a three-year deal worth $3 million -- that he did not even bother to respond to it.
I can confidently say I eat a great deal more: in fact I was surprised the figure was so low considering the cheapness of the food and the fact that "midweek supper" now seems almost synonymous with pasta.
Until Sept. 11, 2001, insurers had considered the risk of terrorism so low that it was included in property and casualty coverage without being priced separately.
It might seem strange that that number is so low, but consider this -- every person you add to the mix is compared independently with every other person in the group.
"Anyone who defends abusive and harassing behavior by claiming it doesn't violate the law should consider why their bar is so low," says Paradigm founder and CEO Joelle Emerson.
Because the level of stimulation in TDCS is so low, it is considered safer than another noninvasive alternative, transcranial magnetic stimulation.
And there again, the figures, which were extrapolated from a sampling of Nielsen households, were so low that Nielsen considered them unreliable — and thus, would not be confirmed to nonsubscribers.
Although this could have been again due to the low correlations among the observed variables, as TLI is a function of the average correlations in the data, the value was so low that we considered the receptive-productive model unhelpful in explaining the data.
