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	Linguistics
		Contextual and independent -- Contextual linguistics is concerned with how language fits into the world: its social function, how it is acquired, how it is produced and perceived.
		Independent linguistics considers languages for their own sake, aside from the externalities related to a language.
		The independent significance of each of these areas is not universally acknowledged, however, and nearly all linguists would agree that the divisions overlap considerably.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/li/linguistics_1.html (1400 words)

	OSCN Found Document:Safeco Ins. Co. of America v. Sanders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In response, the insureds assert that causal connection is not severed because the acts of the wrongdoers are intentional criminal acts and that the intent of the wrongdoers is irrelevant to UM coverage.
		If the evidence establishes that the acts of an uninsured motorist, which were related to the transportation nature of the motor vehicle, resulted in or contributed to the injury, then causal connection exists between the use of the vehicle by an uninsured motorist and the injury.
		It is immaterial whether there was an act of "independent significance," or whether the perpetrators of the crime were considered "operators" of the vehicle.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?citeid=14925 (5011 words)

	Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For a given significance level, one way of deciding which decision rule is best is to pick the one that has the smallest chance of a Type II error when a given alternative hypothesis is true.
		In regression, the independent variable is the one that is supposed to explain the other; the term is a synonym for "explanatory variable." Usually, one regresses the "dependent variable" on the "independent variable." There is not always a clear choice of the independent variable.
		The Law of Averages says that the average of independent observations of random variables that have the same probability distribution is increasingly likely to be close to the expected value of the random variables as the number of observations grows.
	www.stat.berkeley.edu /~stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm (13846 words)

	Final Rule: Investment Company Governance; Rel. No. IC-26520, July 27, 2004
		The amendments are designed to enhance the independence and effectiveness of fund boards and to improve their ability to protect the interests of the funds and fund shareholders they serve.
		These rules rely on the independent judgment and scrutiny of directors, including independent directors, in overseeing activities that are beneficial to funds and fund shareholders but that involve inherent conflicts of interest between the funds and their managers.
		We expect that the requirement that independent directors must meet at least once quarterly in separate sessions, without the presence of directors who are interested persons, likewise will improve fund performance by strengthening the role of independent directors and fostering better communications and greater cohesiveness among the independent directors.
	www.sec.gov /rules/final/ic-26520.htm (14450 words)

	Pour-over will - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A pour-over will is a testamentary device wherein the writer of a will creates a trust, and decrees in the will that the property in his estate at the time of his death shall be placed in the trust.
		Under the common law of England, such devices were long held to be void, because the testator could change the disposition of the trust at any time, and therefore could essentially execute changes to the will without meeting the formalities required for such acts.
		More recently, however, many jurisdictions have adopted the view that a pour-over will is a legitimate device, and have given them effect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pour-over_will (254 words)

	Professor Francis A. Boyle Testimony - Restoration of Hawaiian Independence
		And indeed the Palestinians have the requisite votes to be admitted to the United Nations organization as a sovereign independent nation state, and yet it is the threat of a United States veto that had prevented the admission of the state into the United Nations organization.
		That's what it was, a clearly illegal act, an invasion in violation of treaties and international agreement, an invasion in violation of international law, and the United States Constitution, the overthrow of a lawful government.
		So a state, an independent sovereign nation state is one way a people who are threatened with extermination by means of genocide can attempt to protect themselves.
	www.hawaii-nation.org /boyleall.html (8326 words)

	Linguistics Article, Linguistics Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Contextual and independent -- Contextual linguistics is concerned with how language fits into the world: its social function,how it is acquired, how it is produced and perceived.
		Independent linguistics considers languages for their own sake,aside from the externalities related to a language.
		The independent significance of each of these areas is not universally acknowledged, however, and nearly all linguists wouldagree that the divisions overlap considerably.
	www.anoca.org /language/study/linguistics.html (1365 words)

	Mass Media in Ukraine
		Since becoming independent, Ukraine has had to overcome vast difficulties: collapse of the economy and rampant inflation in the first few years of independence, threats to its geographic integrity, and internal disunity.
		A constitution was needed, and, not least important, Ukraine as an independent nation needed to be created in the minds of its citizens and the world as a whole.
		What followed was a veritable explosion of independent publications throughout the Soviet Union, many of which, however, soon realized that more was needed than enthusiasm to run a paper and soon collapsed again for lack of funds or readership (Pryliuk, 1993: 284).
	www.ferkel.co.uk /pub/dissertation.html (17907 words)

	Brown, Paindiris and Scott, LLP, Connecticut General Law Attorneys
		Moreover, the modern trend is to permit the use of an apparent agency theory to hold a hospital liable for the negligence of a doctor/independent contractor where there has been a holding out of the doctor by the hospital and reasonable reliance thereon by the plaintiff.
		Apparent authority thus must be determined by the acts of the principal rather than by the acts of the agent.
		Although, until recently, hospitals were not held liable for the acts of independent-contractor physicians who practiced within the hospital emergency room, the courts in several states have held hospitals liable under certain circumstances for the negligence of these independent contractors.
	www.bpslawyers.com /index.cfm/hurl/SectionID=9/ArticleID=33 (1733 words)

	ThisNation.com--Tinker v. Des Moines School District
		The District Court concluded that the action of the school authorities was reasonable because it was based upon their fear of a disturbance from the wearing of the armbands.
		In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
		In the present case, the District Court made no such finding, and our independent examination of the record fails to yield evidence that the school authorities had reason to anticipate that the wearing of the armbands would substantially interfere with the work of the school or impinge upon the rights of other students.
	www.thisnation.com /library/tinker.html (6008 words)

	The Santa Barbara Independent :: opinions :: Letters 4-27-06
		When The Independent takes on issues of national significance such as immigration, homelessness, and our government’s inhumane treatment of prisoners and detainees here and abroad, the paper does the community a great service.
		Local land use, environmental justice, and entertainment coverage is of course very important, but we have a duty as citizens of the world to educate ourselves about the bigger picture.
		The Independent’s excellent articles addressing the moral and legal implications of this horrible situation do what newspapers are supposed to do: make us think.
	www.independent.com /opinion/2006/04/letters_42706.html (464 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Charles and his courtiers had acquired the habit of thinking and acting as they pleased while in exile in France, by which time thinking and acting as one pleased had become the kind of hedonistic excess exemplified by Rochester.
		This was a significant episode for many reasons, one of which is that it marked a crucial moment in the birth of the modern world.
		But the 1620s have a special significance because it was the decade that saw the last gasp of reactionary religion's efforts to stop the new world of science and philosophy coming into being.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /film/features/article325403.ece (2349 words)

	Maryland Estate Planning \| Components of a Will
		According to the comment to §3.7 of the Restatement "The doctrine of independent significance is universally accepted.
		In that case the purchaser sued a vendor for specific performance of an alleged oral contract to convey real estate, relying on such acts as a title search, zoning compliance activities, and percolation tests as evidence of his part performance of the contract.
		Simply by reason of theses acts the circuit court could not find, on the record in summary judgment, that the parties were unequivocally in a position difference from that which, according to their legal rights, they would be in if there were no contract.
	www.fredfranke.com /print_lecture10.htm (2007 words)

	Office of the Independent Blogger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		By the article’s admission, it is an act he engages in with but a handful of leaders, and only with those he considers friends, a caveat that damages the effectiveness of this diplomacy.
		Listening to those was an act that few would have taken, and that not enough give you credit for having done.
		War happens to include evil acts, and that aspect of War — however disgusting it is — is just something that one has to come to terms with and understand.
	www.officeoftheindependentblogger.com (10185 words)

	Balkinization
		When the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum, for it includes all that he possesses in his own right plus all that Congress can delegate.
		A seizure executed by the President pursuant to an Act of Congress would be supported by the strongest of presumptions and the widest latitude of judicial interpretation, and the burden of persuasion would rest heavily upon any who might attack it.
		When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers, but there is a zone of twilight in which he and Congress may have concurrent authority, or in which its distribution is uncertain.
	balkin.blogspot.com /2004/07/youngstown-and-presidents-power-to.html (3889 words)

	Will (law) - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Under laws of certain states of the United States of America, a will cannot be used to disinherit a surviving spouse, who is entitled to at least a portion of the testator's estate.
		A testator may also be able to revoke by the physical act of another (as would be necessary if he is physically incapacitated), if this is done in his presence and in the presence of witnesses.
		Some jurisdictions may presume that a will has been destroyed if it was last seen in the possession of the testator but is found mutilated or cannot be found after his death.
	www.voyager.in /Will_(law) (1380 words)

	The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate: Events: The Independent Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The significance of this is that Abraham Lincoln is one of the seminal figures in American history, and a popular publication like this can make a mockery of him and issues, and it doesn’t really affect the legacy and the ideas and the controversy that surrounds him.
		And that meant that after Missouri was admitted to the Union in 1820 or ’21, that Congress resolved that in all the remaining territory north of 36&Mac251;30’—which was a southern boundary of Missouri—all the remaining territory would be forever free.
		They declared independence and union together, and there was never any time in which any state acted on the international sphere, having diplomatic relations—and the Constitution itself forbids each state to have any diplomatic action.
	www.independent.org /events/transcript.asp?eventID=9 (13128 words)

	The American Revolution and the Minority Myth: Publications: The Independent Institute
		No, merely compiling a vast number of such estimates, even if we know the bias of the person and the circumstances under which the assessment was made, can tell us little unless we knew the nature of the data, if any, upon which he relied as a basis for the estimate.
		It was revived and brought to a head by the Tea Act of 1773, the Boston Tea Party, and the subsequent British decision in 1774 to respond with force in what became known as the Intolerable Acts.
		I would suggest that the most significant characteristic of that phenomenon is a shift in the world view of the society from one value base to another, with respect to legitimacy.
	www.independent.org /publications/article.asp?id=1398 (6232 words)

	Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: The significance of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
		Having said that, I agree with Marty that the real significance of this decision is not its effects on military commissions themselves, but the broad legal principles the decision affirms.
		Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in Article 4, such persons shall enjoy the protection of the present Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal.
		However, the majority then engages in some significant contortions to hold that the prior common law history of trying various defendants for conspiracy starting in the Civil War and then going through WWII somehow does not establish a crime of conspiracy which can be used against Hamdan.
	glenngreenwald.blogspot.com /2006/06/significance-of-hamdan-v-rumsfeld.html (8865 words)

	The Independent Online - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We have this sense that crown fires, even at relatively significant distances, are extremely effective at igniting things, and that’s not the case.
		And those are in jeopardy because the only fires of ecological significance that are occurring, particularly in the western U.S., are under extreme conditions.
		In the Independent’s burning quest to find just who exactly changes the indicator arrow, we spoke with more than half a dozen state and federal employees before we got an answer (though none would agree to be photographed doing the job).
	www.missoulanews.com /News/News.asp?no=3313 (7625 words)

	Manhattan Hearing Transcript - March 15, 2002
		Cromartie clearly indicates that if a jurisdiction draws district lines to fulfill partisan political objectives, the fact that a large number of residences of the district are also members of a racial minority group does in and of itself render the district a racial gerrymander.
		Because Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act protects voters from any election procedures that deprive them of an effective vote because of their race, color or membership in a language minority group, states and local jurisdictions are legally required to avoid diluting minority voting strength during redistricting.
		The Supreme Court and several district courts have endorsed the principle that jurisdictions have a compelling interest in complying with the Voting Rights Act during redistricting and that complying with the Act is a defense against constitutional attack.
	latfor.state.ny.us /docs/20020315/manhattan.html (18714 words)

	00-1167 -- Echo Acceptance Corp. V. Household Retail Services Inc. -- 09/28/2001
		By contrast, "[i]f the significance of an offered statement lies solely in the fact that it was made, no issue is raised as to the truth of anything asserted, and the statement is not hearsay." Fed. R.
		According to HRSI, the excluded exhibits were not proffered as evidence of the truth of the statements therein, but rather, for their independent legal significance.
		The verbal acts doctrine applies only where the out-of-court statement actually "affects the legal rights of the parties, or where 'legal consequences flow from the fact that the words were said.'" U.S. v.
	www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/2001/09/00-1167.htm (10395 words)

	Independent analysis of Microsoft strategy & technology - Directions on Microsoft
		Directions on Microsoft is the only INDEPENDENT organization in the world devoted exclusively to tracking Microsoft.
		Our team of Microsoft experts [analyst bios] provides clear, concise, and actionable analysis of shifts in Microsoft strategy, Microsoft product and technology roadmaps, delivery schedules, organizational changes, marketing initiatives, and licensing and other policies so you can quickly assess how they impact your business.
		Directions is the only INDEPENDENT organization in the world devoted exclusively to tracking Microsoft.
	www.redcomm.com /aboutus (1160 words)

	portland imc - 2003.06.22 - History of Money and Private Central Bank Ownership by Freemason/Zionists Mafia
		The three people who passed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, knew exactly what they were doing when they set up this private bank, modelled on the Bank of England and the fact that THE BANK OF ENGLAND had been operating independently unopposed since 1694 must have given them a great deal of confidence indeed.
		The first act, providing for the issue Of notes to the amount of $150,000,000, was that of the 25th February 1862; the acts of 11th July 1862 and 3rd March 1863 each authorized further issues of $150,000,000.
		In 1913, the same year that the Federal Reserve Act was passed into law, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Currency and Banking, under the chairmanship of Arsene Pujo of Louisiana, completed its investigation into the concentration of financial power in the United States.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/06/266805.shtml (17038 words)

	Lack of Independent Prognostic Significance of p21 and p27 Expression in Advanced Ovarian Cancer: An ...
		Lack of Independent Prognostic Significance of p21 and p27 Expression in Advanced Ovarian Cancer: An Immunohistochemical Study -- Baekelandt et al.
		significance when their effect on survival was examined.
		Makar A. P., Baekelandt M., Tropé C. G., Kristensen G. The prognostic significance of residual disease, FIGO substage, tumor histology and grade in patients with FIGO stage III ovarian cancer.
	clincancerres.aacrjournals.org /cgi/content/full/5/10/2848 (3827 words)

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