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‘The distinctions I make are much more between top-down and bottom-up.
This "bottom-up" approach provides a more accurate representation of regional benefits estimates than a comparable "top-down", emissions-weighted approach might, particularly given the importance of long-range transport for the major pollutants controlled by the Clear Skies Act (SO2 and NOx, as well as mercury).
When Johnson turns to the 19 th century, he continues to reward us with lively prose and well-crafted sketches of people--mostly presidents and big business leaders such as the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and the banker J. Pierpont Morgan (this is decidedly a top-down history, in which the poor, labor union leaders, and minority groups receive far less attention than in most scholarly histories these days).
The inner core of al Qaeda continued to be a hierarchical top-down group with defined positions, tasks, and salaries.
However, to encourage coherence within the gene clusters, it can be better to use a partially supervised criterion, which does use principal components and top-down shaving.