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However, a garden-variety Statistics 100 course doesn’t come close to teaching you how to figure out an OERA. Morris’ contribution was to derive a simple formula, RPG, that calculated OERA without advanced techniques. “This [OERA] paper lay dormant [until] Morris found a simple formula for it,” Cover says. “He has made it a worthwhile statistic. I’m involved in the past history of it, but Morris is the one who’s made this work...
...example, a stained shirt in any other context falls by the wayside, more or less. But in Sportflecken (1996), a white shirt with light yellow stains begins to raise questions. Why is it stained? Whose shirt is it? The object itself is boring and dormant, but the truth lies in the details. It may have belonged to a deceased lover, or maybe not; one often wonders if Wolfgang Tillmans’ images are authentic or posed in such a way that they look authentic. It doesn’t seem to matter, however, as these objects represent details of anyone?...
...away. After a decade of the peace process, the I.R.A. does seem to be junior to Sinn Fein inside the republican movement. Most reputed I.R.A. leaders are now busy in elected office. But in spite of Adams' denials, and the symbolic destruction of some weapons, the I.R.A. is hardly dormant. To revive Stormont, unionists now require the I.R.A. to disband, a demand that republicans say is too much. The impasse looks so great that opponents of the agreement have already pronounced it dead. Months of negotiations loom, but both sides say they'll be there in the interests of peace...
...accounts after the banks themselves reported their suspicions. The Swiss ambassador in Lima then informed the Peruvian government and urged it to open an international criminal investigation, with which Switzerland cooperated. In addition, it was fierce international pressure that led the Swiss to disclose information about thousands of dormant accounts belonging to victims of the Nazis?and to pay $1.25 billion in 2000 to settle class actions relating to those accounts...
...Obesity is a hot topic right now. Citing an epidemic of obesity in America, three senators on Tuesday proposed a bill that would provide millions of dollars to weight-loss programs nationwide. Although the legislation will lie dormant during the Senate's summer recess, its message is clear: We're too fat, and now even the government is worried about...