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A Metric America: A Decision Whose Time Has Come

In 1968, in the Metric Study Act (Pub. L. 90-472, August 9, 1968, 82 Stat. 693), Congress authorized a three-year study of systems of measurement in the U.S., with particular emphasis on the feasibility of adopting the SI.

Alfred Delavan Thomas

On February 19, 1890, Thomas was nominated by President Benjamin Harrison to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota created by 26 Stat.

Ann Aldrich

Aldrich was nominated to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by President Jimmy Carter on March 28, 1980, to a new seat created by 92 Stat.

Arkansas National Guard during World War I

The Militia Act of 1903 (32 Stat. 775), also known as the Dick Act, organized the various state militias into the present National Guard system.

Benjamin Franklin Keller

On June 18, 1901, Keller received a recess appointment from William McKinley to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia created by 31 Stat.

Bernard Martin Decker

On December 12, 1962, Decker received a recess appointment from President John F. Kennedy to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois created by 75 Stat.

Brown v. United States

On October 22, 1872, the Naval Retiring Board, before which he had been ordered by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of § 23 of the Act of August 3, 1861, 12 Stat.

Cale James Holder

On August 2, 1954, Holder was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana created by 68 Stat.

Caleb Merrill Wright

On July 1, 1955, Wright was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware created by 68 Stat.

Carl Bernard Rubin

On April 29, 1971, Rubin was nominated by President Richard M. Nixon to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio created by 84 Stat.

Carolyn R. Dimmick

Dimmick was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on March 7, 1985, to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington created by 98 Stat.

Coraopolis Bridge

While the Pittsburgh City Council and the Municipal Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Commerce argued for the retention and upgrading of the existing bridges, the issue was ultimately decided by the Department of War, acting under the authority of Section 18 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of March 3, 1890 (30 Stat., 1121–1153).

Economy Act

In Lynch v. United States, 292 U.S. 571 (1934) and United States v. Jackson, 302 U.S. 628 (1938), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Congress had violated federal law in eliminating certain insurance guarantees formerly offered to veterans by the War Risk Insurance Act (as amended December 24, 1919; Chapter 16, Section 12, 41 Stat. 371), and those benefits were restored.

Education in Moldova

#Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University (Universitatea Pedagogică de Stat "I. Creangă"), Chişinău, str.

Ernest Lanigan

During a two-year convalescene in the Adirondack Mountains, he continued his baseball stat gathering for The Sporting News, as he had during his banking career, and began inventing new statistics.

Front Page Sports Football

Without Dynamix and Sierra Entertainment bringing franchise play and serious stat-crunching to the masses, games like Front Office Football and Action! PC Football would have been hard pressed to build substantial followings.

Gene Edward Brooks

On July 27, 1979, Brooks was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, created by 92 Stat.

Gus J. Solomon

On October 21, 1949, Solomon received a recess appointment from President Harry S Truman to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon created by 63 Stat.

ISTAT

i-STAT, a handheld clinical blood analyzer made by Abbott Laboratories.

J. Frederick Motz

On April 23, 1985, Motz was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland created by 98 Stat.

James C. Mahan

Mahan was nominated by President George W. Bush on September 10, 2001, to a new seat created by 114 Stat.

James Marshall Carter

On September 23, 1949, Carter was nominated by President Harry S. Truman to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California created by 63 Stat.

Jesse William Curtis Jr.

On August 3, 1962, Curtis was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California created by 75 Stat.

John Coleman Pickett

On September 23, 1949, Pickett was nominated by President Harry S. Truman to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit created by 63 Stat.

Konstantin Ramul

Ramul believed that history is dependent upon psychology, though the philosopher of science Ernest Nagel criticized him for "not stating clearly the type of psychological investigation which is relevant to the historian's task" (Nagel 1934, pp. 599-600).

Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton

Attended Neuqua Valley High School where she ended her career there with stat totals of 1,752 points and 1,200 rebounds.

Marketing agreements

In United States agricultural policy, marketing agreements (and marketing orders) are authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 246), as amended).

Michael Robert Hogan

On June 27, 1991, Hogan was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon created by 104 Stat.

Pete Palmer

In 1973, he joined the stat crew of the New England Patriots, compiling the official statistics for the team's home games.

Plus-minus

For instance, the NBA's Houston Rockets first utilized a modified version of the stat, which helped reveal the unheralded effectiveness of light-scoring Shane Battier.

Revenue Act of 1928

The Revenue Act of 1928 (May 29, 1928, ch. 852, 45 Stat. 791), formerly codified in part at 26 U.S.C. sec. 22(a), is a statute enacted by the 70th United States Congress in 1928 regarding tax policy.

Richard Dickson Cudahy

On May 22, 1979, Cudahy was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit created by 92 Stat.

Robert Jackson Staker

On June 14, 1979, Staker was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia created by 92 Stat.

Ronald M. Whyte

On July 26, 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated Whyte to new seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California created by 104 Stat.

Selective Service System

The Selective Service Act of 1917 (40 Stat. 76) was passed by the 65th United States Congress on May 18, 1917 creating the Selective Service System.

Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act

The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (Pub .L.No. 107-118, 115 stat. 2356, "the Brownfields Law") was signed into law by President George W. Bush on January 11, 2002.

STAT protein

There are seven mammalian STAT family members that have been identified: STAT1, STAT2, STAT3, STAT4, STAT5 (STAT5A and STAT5B), and STAT6.

STAT: Standing Tall And Talented

The main character and hero of the novels, he is based on Amar'e Stoudemire from the New York Knicks.

STAT: Standing Tall and Talented is a series of children's books written by NBA basketball player Amar'e Stoudemire.

STAT5

Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 5 refers to two highly related proteins, STAT5A and STAT5B, which are part of the seven-membered STAT family of proteins.

Thomas Jamison MacBride

MacBride was nominated by President John F. Kennedy on September 14, 1961, to a new seat created by 75 Stat.

Thomas Stent

At Parliament Hill, the team of Thomas Stent and Augustus Laver, under the pseudonym of Stat nomen in umbra, won the prize for the second category, which included the East and West Blocks.

Walter J. Gex III

On January 29, 1986, Gex was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi created by 98 Stat.

Walter Reed Medal

The Congressional Gold Medal was awarded by Congress on February 28, 1929 (Public Law 70-858, 45 Stat. 1409) to each of the persons listed below, "in special recognition of the high public service rendered and disabilities contracted in the interest of humanity and science as voluntary subjects for the experimentations during the yellow-fever investigations in Cuba"

War Claims Act of 1948

The War Claims Act of 1948, or Public Law 80-896 (62 Stat. 1240; 50 U.S.C.) is a United States federal law passed by the 80th United States Congress on July 3, 1948.

William Cook Hanson

Although a Republican, Hanson was recommended by U.S. Deputy Attorney General (and later Supreme Court Justice) Byron White and nominated by President John F. Kennedy on June 23, 1962, to a new seat created by 75 Stat.

William Lynn Parkinson

On August 2, 1954, Parkinson was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana created by 68 Stat.

William McKennan

On December 8, 1869, McKennan was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant to a new seat on the United States circuit court for the Third Circuit created by 16 Stat.


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