And not all statistics are surprising on the upside; first-quarter gross domestic product was revised a bit lower in the latest estimate, released Thursday.
In a curious debate last night that revised a bit of recent political dialogue, the two Democratic candidates for mayor worked to appear restrained, even unified.
It consists of a set of six papers developed in a course at the University of Chicago in the Fall term of 2010, and then later revised a bit for CCJ.
Dr. Nittaya Kotchabhakdi, who managed the project to develop the Facts for Life website, said the information on it has been revised a bit to take into account the situation of children in Thailand and the recommendations of experts from the Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Ministry of Education and the Royal College of Pediatricians.
Producers who have indulged screenwriters for months, even years, suddenly grow impatient with a translator's desire to consider, research or revise a bit of Parisian back talk, some choice Chilean slang or Muscovite double-entendre.
Vidal may be most in his element when mischievously revising some bit of American civic hagiography, but he is anything but a systematic historical skeptic.
If I heard more commentary like that from pols -- that took risks at the pulpit and did less pandering -- I might revise a bit of my objection to this sort of politicking.
Many times students - myself included - have nobly stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to tweak an essay due the next day, or to revise "a bit more" information before an exam, so that when the day arrives, they are EXHAUSTED and cannot perform to their natural, high standard.
By update complexity for a secret sharing scheme, author meant that the average number of bits in the participant's shares that needs to be revised when certain bit of the master secret is changed.
Besides lending credence to the big bang theory, the CMB data let astrophysicists calculate the rate at which the universe is expanding (which was revised down a bit in the light of the Planck results), and thus its age (which was revised up, by 50m years or so, to 13.8 billion years).
