Observed condition of equipment and materials used to ensure company standards are met and promptly reported any possible problem and defect.
As a dog owner you should
observe the condition of your dog to be able to determine any symptoms.
Not exact matches
Armed with information about rainfall, temperature and soil
conditions, the startup created comprehensive maps
of conditions in the fields — the type
of intel farmers once had to gather by traversing every acre under production, manually noting any changes they
observed.
A small group
of reporters was allowed to
observe the meeting last week on the
condition that they could describe process, but not substance.
As Grieve
observed, London and Barcelona proved to be sharp contrasts in terms
of business
conditions.
The first
condition of their success will be the quieting
of Jewish apprehensiveness and the consequent elimination
of the aggressive and occasionally provocative Jewish defensive measures which the country has recently and anxiously
observed.
The Valley is an interesting place to
observe the spread
of such
conditions.
Indeed, the reason we were somewhat «burned» during the fourth quarter
of 2008 is that we expected - too early, in hindsight - a powerful rebound from the extremely oversold
conditions we
observed, based on normal market behavior.
But the awful outcome
of this same set
of conditions, which we also
observed in 2007, should provide enough credibility.
For example, if the market declines enough to clear the overbought, and overbullish components
of present
conditions, or if yields decline sufficiently to remove the present upward pressures we
observe, and provided that market internals do not deteriorate notably, we would be left with a strenuously overvalued market, but with favorable market action and no negative syndromes.
My mentor Michael Dooley once
observed of employee participation in corporate democracy that workers will be indifferent to most corporate decisions that do not bear directly on working
conditions and benefits: «As to the majority
of managerial policies concerning, for example, dividend and investment policies, product development, and the like, the typical employee has a much interest and as much to offer as the typical purchaser
of light bulbs.»
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With the S&P 500 within about 8 %
of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period
of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish
conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market
conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been
observed in only about 9 %
of history.
One
of the elements
of that process, as I
observed approaching the 2000 and 2007 peaks, and again during the extended range - bound period
of recent quarters, is that deterioration in broad market internals — particularly following an extended period
of overvalued, overbought, overbullish
conditions — is a sign
of increasing risk - aversion that typically precedes more extensive losses in the capitalization - weighted averages.
Still, I did increase the Fund's call option purchases near the end
of the week, and expect to add to that position toward 2 %
of assets if the market clears its overbought
condition by a decline
of a few percent further (provided that we don't also
observe a substantial deterioration
of internal market action).
Overall, the potential return / risk tradeoff isn't terribly compelling here, but again, our investment stance will change if market
conditions do, particularly if we
observe some improvement in the internal quality
of market action.
In an interview with the Wall St. Journal, reported in the Globe and Mail
of August 26th, the Prime Minister
observed that «
conditions demand large - scale stimulus are fairly unique» and a «mere slowing
of the economy would not replicate those
conditions».
At present, we continue to identify one
of the most hostile market environments we've
observed in a century
of historical data, not only because obscene valuations and extreme «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndromes are in place, but also because our measures
of market internals remain in a deteriorating
condition.
All
of that said, it's extremely important to
observe that while the expected market return / risk profile is flat or negative in all
of the
conditions shown above, none
of these
conditions is associated with strictly negative actual market returns.
On average, the syndrome
of conditions we presently
observe has been hostile for stocks.
The long - term outlook is weak on the basis
of valuations, and the expected near - term return / risk profile is negative on the basis
of the specific but probably short - lived set
of conditions we
observe.
Put differently, the blue line — capturing the most severe
conditions we
observe at present — certainly does not capture in a 10 - week window the entire extent
of losses that may unfold over a more extended period
of time.
Still, the rare extremes
of current overvalued, overbought, overbullish
conditions here, coupled with the absence (at least at present)
of the factors that deferred their consequences between late - 2011 to mid-2014, suggest that we may be
observing the best opportunity to exit the U.S. stock market that investors will see in a generation.
Benoit Mandlebrot
observed that volatility tends to cluster and the clusters appear after longer periods
of relatively benign
conditions.
The fact is that this syndrome
of overextended
conditions has persisted since March
of last year (about 1400 on the S&P 500), so the impact
of that adaptation will only be
observed over time.
After a reasonable interval to seek work in their own occupation, workers are currently expected to take a job «at a rate
of earnings not lower and on
conditions not less favourable than those
observed by agreement between employers and employees or, in the absence
of any such agreement, than those recognized by good employers.»
From a speculative standpoint, then, what we presently
observe is a rarified syndrome
of overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yield
conditions that has typically resulted in profound market losses within about 2 years, but that doesn't entirely rule out further speculative gains.
He saw himself as operating in the same way that any scientist would operate insofar as he asked the
conditions that made sense
of the phenomena he
observed in the world.
Virginia Woolf
observed that the poets give us language for all sorts and
conditions of love but don't offer ready language for a common headache.
Lamarck was supposed to have ascribed to the internal
condition of the organism itself, its inheritable side, a good deal
of the initiative in the variations
observed.
There have been millions
of fruit - fly generations
observed and the best scientist could do was show that the smarter flies have a better chance
of survival under certain
conditions, thus improving the genetic cesspool with - in the species.
Augustine
observed infants and concluded that they epitomized «the wretchedness
of the human
condition.»
Not the high priest in the temple in Jerusalem or the baptism
of John the Baptist in the Jordan River brings the ultimate salvation, but rather keeping Jesus» words, as they are conserved in the Sayings Gospel — to be sure, on the
condition that they are really kept,
observed, and not just conserved.
A Reply to Matthew Rose Matthew Rose: «Barth agreed with the Enlightenment insistence on the historical and empirical
conditions of our knowledge, only to
observe that God himself became historical and empirical» («Karl Barth's Failure,»....
Today's physics has
observed that the universe's initial
conditions and physical constants were configured in such a delicate way during the cosmic dawn that, if these
conditions and constants had been only slightly different, the universe would never have permitted the evolution
of life and mind.
It is not surprising that the slums in our cities, where there is an intense struggle for basic necessities, have become scenes
of violent conflict, M.N. Srinivas, the eminent sociologist,
observes «The richest soil for communal frenzy to build on is poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and slum — like
conditions — all
of which are m plenty in urban India» (India Today, January 16 - 31, 1993).
We still need to
observe the facts
of the
conditions on the ground and try to make the best decisions for going forward — and we can't have our options frozen (and fixed) by exactly what was written down be people from long ago.
Since, as we have already
observed, these
conditions are also the basis for mathematical necessity, the test for scientific admissibility is the possibility
of mathematical formulation.
And if the necessary moral
conditions of respect for man were
observed, even a deliberate manipulation
of this history by man himself would be conceivable.
«how surprising it is that the laws
of nature and the initial
conditions of the universe should allow for the existence
of beings who could
observe it.
At JREF, we offer a one - million - dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper
observing conditions, evidence
of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.
It was appropriate, then, for early 20th - century Social Gospel theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch to
observe how prejudice and social discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding
of the human
condition.
Christians almost invariably take a «Pharisaic» attitude toward Pharisees «Pharisaism,» Nietzsche
observed, «is not a degeneration in a good man: a good deal
of it is rather the
condition of all being good.»
In the beginning the Chinese Muslims were very serious about practicing the five daily prayers, but in recent years, due to the influence
of materialism, unsettled
conditions, difficulties
of obtaining a livelihood, and the distance from mosques, only the Ahunds and country people
of strong faith
observe the five daily prayers.
Over and over, one takes on the challenge
of observing the contributing causes and
conditions of each particular moment.
Matthew Rose: «Barth agreed with the Enlightenment insistence on the historical and empirical
conditions of our knowledge, only to
observe that God himself became historical and empirical» («Karl Barth's Failure,» June / July).
What is possible for a given atomic event is heavily
conditioned by the entire history
of the universe, and by the instruments with which the event is
observed if an observation is being made.
But we
observe, in passing, the major features
of the new human
condition, announced and foretold in God's speech to the newly awakened pair, within which the story
of man and woman will hereafter — and irreversibly — unfold.
We
observe the probability,
of course, that the prophetic word
of doom is nearly always implicitly qualified by contingency — that is, the fulfillment
of the dire expectation is contingent upon the continuation
of the
conditions which call it forth.
Submicroscopic events are
conditioned by the instruments with which we
observe them, and perhaps even by one's consciousness
of them.