New York's price-regulation bill would, in effect, close off the remaining means of access to cheap cigarettes and little cigars, which make it easier for teenagers to experiment with smoking, and progress to smoking regularly, said Brett Loomis, a researcher at RTI International, a nonprofit institute that offers research and technical services to governments and businesses.
For now, the alliance involves mostly the swapping of research and technical expertise.
Rockstar has a cultlike following for the painstaking research and technical wizardry that go into its games.
Science, perhaps more than any other intellectual pursuit, actively builds on the research and technical innovations -- and the ideas -- of others.
In 1877, when the Bell Telephone Company was formed, Watson received a share in the business and became its head of research and technical development.
An economic historian might point to a period in the late 19th century when Germany overtook Britain in chemical research and technical education and, together with America, began to replace it as the world's supreme industrial nation.
Enron's accounting treatment conformed to existing recommendations from the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the nation's accounting rule maker, said Timothy S. Lucas, director of research and technical activities at the board.
Tim Lucas, director of research and technical activities at the accounting standards board, said that he was not aware of any other companies that had used the tactic Sprint is using, but that the board had expected someone would.
She has offered £25m for a voluntary cull of the Scottish whitefish fleet, plus some cash for scientific research and technical measures to help reduce the number of fish that have to be thrown back.
By Christmas morning, said Richard Doherty, research director at Envisioneering, a market research and technical assessment company in Seaford, N.Y., "just about half of American households will have at least one Internet TV".
near San Francisco, California James Nicholas Gray, (born Jan . 12 , 1944San Francisco, Calif., U.S. disappeared Jan . 28 , 2007near San Francisco) American computer scientist and winner of the 1998 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his "seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation".
