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Jon Krause The One-Third Mark We developed a model to help executives determine the optimal level of investment to protect a given set of information—whether it's customers' personal information, company financial data, strategic-planning documents or something else.
You May Be Fighting the Wrong Security Battles Lawrence A. Gordon 2011
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One-Third of American book buyers are cutting purchases.
December 2009 2009
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One-Third of American book buyers are cutting purchases.
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Note: There is an exception to the six-year term for Senators who are elected to fill out a term, but that relates to the One-Third Clause of article I, § 3, the little known numerical relative of the Three-Fifths Clause, and to the Three Classes Clause.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional 2010
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'BILL: One-Third of Parliament Reserved for Women in India'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'The Women\'s Reservation Bill, which aims to set aside one-third of seats in Parliament and state assemblies for women, has been hanging fire for a long time due to opposition from certain parties who want special quota-in-quota for women from backward and minority communities.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: BILL: One-Third of Parliament Reserved for Women in India 2008
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Alaska Update: Thousands of Ballots \'Found\', One-Third Remain Uncounted in the State\'s Still-Fishy \'08 Election '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Thousands of ballots, nearly a third of them, remain uncounted nearly a week after the election.
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To cut this Gordian Knot of a controversy, can there be a "One-Third Solution" -- with the States, the Party and the candidates each picking up a third of the costs?
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India's Metric: One-Third of Parliament Reserved for Women by Rady Ananda on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 2: 01: 15 PM
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On the thread, "What's With that Stubborn One-Third of the American Public," also on my own website, I wrote as a comment in response to another comment:
On Polarization and the Moral Pathologies of America: Two Thoughts 2007
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This represents the richly-deserved and gravely overdue final curtain-call for "The One-Third Lie": the much quoted - but UTTERLY FALSE proposition that: "one-third of all road accidents is caused by speed".
Archive 2006-10-01 Thatsnews 2006
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