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LOS ANGELES — A ballot initiative to suspend a milestone California law curbing greenhouse gas emissions is drawing a wave of contributions from out-of-state oil companies, raising concerns among conservationists as it emerges as a test of public support for potentially costly environmental measures during tough economic times.

Constantine's enthusiasm sparked a wave of contributions from the Greek public.

(Has every New Yorker cartoonist done a children's book yet? If not, given the recent wave of charming contributions to the genre, they should get to work).

He said he hoped that as his profile rose, he would draw a wave of Tea Party contributions from across the country.

Gary Smith, of Watson Wyatt, recalls "the domino effect" that rolled through industries, including drugmakers and retail banks.After a pause, the past couple of years have seen a new wave of defined-contribution plans.

Federal campaign finance laws, which are supposed to prevent political corruption, have been rendered meaningless by the tidal wave of "soft money" contributions that now floods political campaigns.

In fact, in the maximum intrinsic attenuation of an attenuated wave, the contributions of homogeneous propagation (i.e. γ = δ = 0) and evanescent propagation (i.e. γ = π/2) are defined by the ratios β/υ and δ/υ, respectively.

Whereas periods of statistically stationary response are characterized by nearly mono-frequency traveling waves, with small standing wave contributions, near the ends of the riser, and possibly accompanied by sharply peaked third and fifth force harmonics, the chaotic response is characterized by a rather wide-band spectrum with several individual peaks and a mix of traveling and standing waves.

According to the definition of the energy density, the squared amplitude of a time-domain signal recording particle displacement is proportional to the energy of the incident Lamb wave, but comprises contributions of all modes of propagation.

An explanation of the obtained variability pattern is proposed in terms of the geomagnetic, meteorological and wave activity contributions, and the sensitivity of the ionospheric electron density to the geomagnetic and meteorological impacts.

Provided m1 and m2 are not both zero, corresponding to a fast wave of infinite speed, the modal contributions are thus all evanescent, with a longitudinal dependence that can be written, by choosing the appropriate root of k m, as (44) e − i k m x = e − x / l m, where l m is a modal decay length.