Re: "Handling the Stress of Selling on the Net" (Dec. 14), as a successful seller over the Net through sites like eBay and Half.com, I learned early on that the only way to profitably sell small-ticket items online was to sell in quantity.
This helped Swiss Re handle hurricane season in 2008 slightly better than it otherwise would have.
The TLP consists of assigning import containers to the trains departing from the terminal, maximizing the utilization of trains, minimizing the distance travelled by containers from their locations in the storage area to the wagons, as well as the number of needed unproductive movements of containers (re-handles).
Earthmoving mechanisms in motor graders are critical components for earthwork, compaction and re-handling, and yet they have not received much attention by mechanical engineering research in recent times.
Dialysis bath production, at least in Europe, is currently based on pre-produced aqueous solutions of dialysis salts (concentrate), which are re-handled by dialysis machines to deliver the final dialysate concentrations.
Order a coke, anger a snob SIR: Re On handling haughty sommeliers (Nov. 17, p. 212).
Recently, the literature has presented the probabilistic model CRF as a good alternative, in which RE is handled as a text tagging task [25].
Or, more spectacularly, in the bias cut of London's Swiss Re "gherkin", which handles wind more effectively than the surrounding masonry.
Mr. Guardino said Hempstead's town lawyers were also reviewing whether American Re-Fuel, which handles all of the town's garbage, can take New York City's, too.
Re the improper handling of sensitive national intelligence information by John Deutch, the former director of central intelligence (news articles, Feb. 1-4): as a former senior counterintelligence officer, I can attest that Central Intelligence Agency employees involved in far less severe cases of improper handling of classified material met with far more severe punishment than Mr. Deutch.
