PROPOSALS to cap the compensation of bank C.E.O.'s have gained traction lately as a means of heading off another financial crisis.
The National Park Service defended the practice of setting controlled, or "prescribed," fires, saying the fires are an essential means of heading off devastating accidental fires in forests that have grown overly dense because of fire suppression over the years.
The fires are an essential means of heading off devastating accidental fires in forests that have been allowed to grow too dense because for years the government followed a misguided policy of suppressing natural fires.
Some saw her move as a means of heading off a putative challenge from Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, who many believe offers the best chance of defeating Mr Sarkozy.Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, delivered his annual "state of the nation" speech to the Duma.
The study group consisted of 23 patients with a chief complaint of TMJ discomfort who were tentatively diagnosed by means of head-neck examination as having TMJ internal derangements and a control group of 9 volunteers who had no sign of TMJ internal derangements.
The paper reports the experimental investigation of composite shear panels, composed of steel columns incorporated in concrete panels by means of headed shear studs, under reversible cyclic loading.
BECs were determined by means of head-space gas chromatography, using a Hewlett Packard HPP) 5890 series II Gas Chromatograph and a HP 7694E Headspace Sampler (see Varlinskaya and Spear (2006) for details).
The correlation of the SMR with the body temperature (mean of head, thorax and abdomen) revealed a nearly identical result for both races (P=0.5248; Figure 2b).
For us, that means lots of head scratching about how we can make shared childcare work for another year.
Tail moment is defined as the product of the per cent of DNA (fluorescence) in the tail and the distance between the means of the head and tail fluorescence distributions.
The tail moment for each image was calculated as the product of the percentage DNA in the comet tail and the distance between the means of the head and tail distributions [ 20].
