Given that wood density in Douglas-fir does not appear to be under a high degree of silvicultural control, it is more likely that forest managers would use the model to determine whether a stand growing on a particular site would yield logs capable of meeting certain wood density levels.
The outcome of this cultural negotiation determines when a stand on fairness will be an effective move in political negotiation.
But his approach, to turn Newsweek into a middle-brow thumb sucker, reminiscent of Norman Cousins' Saturday Review -- a magazine that went belly up several generations ago -- seems, in hindsight, more a determined last stand for a specific journalism class than a concerted and hard-headed business proposition.
Determine what you stand for, stand up to it, and stick with it.
As his friends and followers went off to prison, Debs determined to make a stand.
Many in the Democratic majority, believing that they had conceded too much in August, seemed determined to take a stand.
A few Taliban guerrillas will probably fight it out in the mountains, and foreign al-Qaeda fighters may be even more determined to make a stand.
Allied planners had hoped to check the Germans at the Dyle Line a defensive line that ran from Antwerp south to the French frontier, north of Sedan but by May 16 Gamelin had determined that such a stand was impracticable.
Determined to take a stand, she approached the camp commander and announced, in German, that she and her fellow Frenchwomen were prisoners of war and that under the Geneva Convention they could not be made to manufacture weapons.
"This shows they are determined to take a stand against complex tax avoidance schemes," he said.
