The Maastricht inflation criterion, designed in the early 1990s to bring "High-inflation" EU countries in line with "low-inflation" countries prior to the introduction of the euro, poses challenges for both new EU member countries and the European Central Bank. While the criterion has positively influenced the public stance toward low...
Entertainment Weekly recently published a Top 50 checklist of DVDs that retailers who ate building their digital catalogs should check out. Fight Club was No. 1 not because it's the best movie on the list, EW says, but "because every facet of Entertainment...
* MGM has pulled The David Lean DVD Collection from its scheduled Sept.7 release. A home video spokesman explained that the studio's legal department recommended benching the product, adding the studio "hopes to release it at a later date.&quo * MGM has pulled The...
TOKYO--BUSINESS WIRE--March 3, 1999--Criterion Software Ltd. today announced an alliance with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. SCEI to provide its 3D graphics library RenderWareR as a middleware component for next generation PlayStationR.
A commercial lines deregulation bill moved toward enactment in Maryland last week. The Senate Finance Committee passed H.B. 818, a bill exempting big commercial lines risks that contains $75,000 as a deregulatory criterion. The action makes the A commercial lines...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 6, 1995--Criterion Software Friday announced an alliance with Yamaha to provide low-cost real-time 3D graphics for the PC virtual reality market.
PITTSBURGH--BUSINESS WIRE--October 31, 1995--FISERV, INC. and Criterion Health Strategies, Inc. announced today that they have entered into an agreement for Criterion to use the Fiserv InformEntTM data warehouse solution as the information repository and data management tool set for its COPPS ambulatory decision support system.
In an effort to build its independent-film and world cinema audience, Sundance Channel this summer will host a consumer sweepstakes, in conjunction with Amazon.com and home-video distributors The Criterion Collection and Home Vision Entertainment. In an effort to build its independent-film and world...
Trade group says production volume is poor criterion for evaluating risks. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency's plan to require the industry to conduct basic health and environmental effects tests on most high-production-volume HPV industrial Trade group says production volume...
Objections by independent agents to criteria for deregulating commercial lines risks led to a compromise bill that passed the Maryland House last week, according to an agent lobbyist. As a result of the compromise, the House bill exempting big com Objections by independent...
The Labor Department opted for a compromise position in the polarized debate over hearing protection when it issued a final rule changing the criteria for recording workrelated hearing loss, 29 CFR 1904.10. Beginning on Jan. 1, OSHA will requ ...
I just read your article on organic foods ("How to Buy Organic," September, p. 52). It says nonorganic bananas are "acceptable." Aren't nonorganic bananas one of the worst crops for the environment, as they need a lot of pesticides? GABRIELLA | RALEIGH, N.C. Editor's Note: While...
Criterion Investments Limited ("Criterion") today announced that the Criterion Diversified Commodities Currency Hedged Fund ("the Fund") has entered into an agreement with UBS AG to purchase a performance certificate that provides a return linked to the Dow-Jones AIG Commodity Index Total ReturnTM. The index includes the return on investments in...
Yearly ProgressPro Curriculum-Based Measurements Result in Students' Improvement on Utah Criterion-Referenced Test MONTEREY, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- CTB/McGraw-Hill's leading Research department has released a white paper that documents a positive relationship between student performance on a state-level high stakes examination and the use of Yearly ProgressProTM,...
Byline: MR R L VICKERS NOW that the "consultation period" has ended, the Post Office will go ahead and do what it always wanted to do. However, for those still struggling to keep local offices open - a word of advice. The Post Office will not...
Recent empirical studies on the value of time and reliability reveal that travel time variability plays an important role on travelers' route choice decision process. It can be considered as a risk to travelers making a trip. Therefore, travelers are not only interested in saving their travel...
As the problem of full transit vehicles is encountered daily by passengers in most of the big cities, previous research evaluated the consequence of overcrowding in terms of on-board crowding and passengers not being able to board with full vehicles. The impact of overcrowding in the real...
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