While Estonia became the first country to permit the convenience of voting by both cell phone and over the internet, the moderate boost in turnout rates did not even come close to 19th century America.
Along with the competition local cabbies face from a new streetcar line and hundreds of out-of-town limos rolling in for the Super Bowl, several national cab companies recently arrived in New Orleans—just as the city offered up roughly 100 new Certificates of Public Necessity and Convenience permits for the first time in many years, to any cab owner who could meet the new requirements.
That the "ban" of larger-sized (16-plus ounces) sweetened drinks would still be permitted in supermarkets and convenience stores is irrelevant to those who are troubled about the role any government official (mayor, legislator, chief executive, judge) plays in any personal decision.
This equivalence provides computational convenience and permits model checking for the case-crossover design using standard log-linear model diagnostics (Lu et al. 2008).
The design also permitted a treatment-convenience analysis, published elsewhere 8, in which extension subjects were queried as to their preference between their ongoing q.d.
"For too long, the government has ceded to industry convenience," she added, "permitting chemicals known to harm its environment as well as consumers".
"The move is to improve basic public services in urban areas and provide conveniences for residential permit cardholders," the cabinet said in a statement on its website.
Keating said growth in the superannuation asset base "could not happen if people were permitted to take funds for convenience, thereby diminishing the asset pool and its capacity to compound".
The use of computer data collection and processing permits a significant improvement in convenience and in sensitivity.
The company, based in Redmond, Wash., has promoted Passport as a convenience feature that would permit computer users to sign on only once to use multiple Web sites and online services.
