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The thesis attempted to provide a "scientific" rationale for hatred at a time when legal restrictions on Jews were disappearing.
For those of you who missed the , the Shopping Avenger attempted to help an aggrieved U-Haul customer who made a reservation for a truck, only to be told close to the time of pick-up that no such reservation existed.
He said that in the mid-1990s, his command attempted to, but could not, find an effective program for capturing and using employees' official frequent flyer miles anywhere in DOD.
Even before learning of Abdullah's alleged jailhouse conversations, we attempted to interview him in November 2003, while he was incarcerated and awaiting deportation.
Since we were dealing with photography, not photometry, the choice of multiplicative or additive correction attempted to preserve semi-quantitative relationships of reflectance rather than absolute levels or precise numerical relationships [ 31 ] . Further, since reflectance variability was at issue, rather than absolute levels, we considered only the most variable components: the macular luteal pigment, dealt with above, the nerve fiber layer [ 32 33 34 35 ] , and the RPE melanin [ 36 ] . The RPE melanin is denser in the fovea, and as such will reduce the reflectance of underlying drusen in much the same manner as the luteal pigment.