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Critics say that Cambridge's system of proportional representation translates, with the help of slate voting, into "perpetual reelection."
So to use TeX, one would first compose a TeX source file, which contains the text body mixed with commands. Then, the source file is fed into the TeX processor, which translates the commands into something a computer printer understands.
The benefits of the GATT have been widely acknowledged. It will help to reinvigorate a stagnant global economy. This translates into a profit of about $120 billion, one half of one percent of today's gross world product. Since its inception, the GATT has proved remarkably successful in orchestrating the...
Turner and his co-partner, Mark Cerami, have discovered that if you're willing to ignore the heat, controversy translates into cash. Billboard has crowned Priority the industry's "hottest independent label." Priority's dozen rap artists have mined a rich vein of sales, including 13 gold records, 12 platinum...
Individual journalists may have highly developed ethical sensibilities. But journalism as a whole, unlike law or medicine, has no licensing procedure, no disciplinary panels, no agreed-upon code of behavior. Practices that are perfectly acceptable to some major news-gathering institutions -- such as going undercover to expose wrongdoing -- are forbidden...