Over all, the industry, defined in the study as broadcasters, cable networks and telecommunications companies, spent $169.2 million in 2003 on lobbying, up from $145.3 million in 1998.
Rather, it sampled how sensitive they are to climate "variability" — defined in the study as monthly changes in temperature, precipitation or water availability, and cloud cover.
These cities are a lot more affordable for "single professionals" – defined in the study as making about 200percentt of the area's per capita income.
The study is the latest evidence that alcohol might be losing some of its allure for underage youth, defined in the study as 12 to 20 years old.
Hot spots were defined in the study as places having the greatest concentration of what are called endemic species -- those found nowhere else -- while at the same time experiencing exceptional loss of habitat.
It finds that women in Africa are almost twice as likely to experience violence than women in Europe - a particularly striking finding given that 'women' are defined in the study as females aged 15 and over.
"On this scale," the report asserted, "the male nominators' gender bias is 19 times the size of the female nominators'". Classroom "celebrities" -- defined in the study as the students with the most classmate recognition -- were overwhelmingly male.
Last week, the Pew Research Center found that half of American teenagers — defined in the study as ages 12 through 17 — send 50 or more text messages a day and that one third send more than 100 a day.
The particle deposition efficiency, distribution non-uniformity and average impact velocity on the substrate are defined in the study as three indicators for evaluating the deposition quality.
Heavy drinking, or binge drinking, is defined in the study as five or more drinks on the same occasion, on five or more days in the past month.
About half the study participants with a gay parent, as defined in the study, were born out of wedlock and half into a traditional family that broke up.
