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Bertrand competition Bertrand competition is a model of competition used in economics, named after Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822-1900). Specifically, it is a model of price competition between duopoly firms which results in each charging the price that would be charged under perfect competition, known as marginal cost pricing.
Bertrand Clauzel Bertrand, comte Clauzel (or Clausel) (December 12, 1772 – April 21, 1842), marshal of France, was born at Mirepoix (Ariège), and served in the first campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars as one of the volunteers of 1791.
Bertrand Goldberg Bertrand Goldberg (July 17, 1913–October 8, 1997) was an American architect, best known for the Marina City complex in Chicago, the tallest residential and concrete buildings in the world at the time of completion.
Bertrand II of Provence William VI Bertrand II (died 1093Or before 1067) was count of Provence following the death of his father Geoffrey I in 1062, though he is not mentioned until the next year (1063). He was either the eldest or second eldest son of Geoffrey.
Bertrand Island, New Jersey Bertrand Island, New Jersey, is a small peninsula in Lake Hopatcong, part of the community of Mount Arlington. It is best known as the former site of the Bertrand Island Amusement Park which existed from 1928 to 1983, as well as being the place of origin for Bette Cooper, 1937's Miss America.
Bertrand Narvesen Bertrand Narve Louis Narvesen (1860 - 1939), was the founder of the Norwegian chain of newsagents Narvesens Kioskkompagni (Later shortened to Narvesen). Today, Narvesen is one of the largest chains of convenience stores in Norway, and Norway's leading retailer of international newspapers and periodicals.
Bertrand paradox (economics) In economics, the Bertrand paradox–so named for its creator, Joseph Bertrand–describes a situation in which two players (companies) reaching a state of Nash equilibrium in economic competition find themselves with no profits.
Bertrand Renouvin Bertrand Renouvin is the founder and president of French political movement Nouvelle Action Royaliste, an orleanist group which aims at restoring constitutional monarchy in France. One may say his orientation is now close to the original Gaullism which originated from the Resistance movement.
Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician. A prolific writer, he was also a populariser of philosophy and a commentator on a large variety of topics, ranging from very serious issues to the mundane.
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation was established in 1963. The foundation aims to continue the work of the philosopher and activist Bertrand Russell in the areas of peace, social justice, and human rights, with a specific focus on the dangers of nuclear war.
Bertrand W. Gearhart Bertrand Wesley "Bud" Gearhart (May 31 1890 - October 11 1955) was an American lawyer and politician. Gearhart, a Republican, served as the United States Representative for California's 9th congressional district from 1935 to 1949.
Bertrand's ballot theorem In combinatorics, Bertrand's ballot theorem is the solution to the question: "In an election where one candidate receives p votes and the other q votes with p≥q, what is the probability that the first candidate will be strictly ahead of the second candidate throughout the count?" The answer is
Bertrand's postulate Bertrand's postulate states that if n > 3 is an integer, then there always exists at least one prime number p with n < p < 2n − 2. A weaker but more elegant formulation is: for every n > 1 there is always at least one prime p such that n < p < 2n.
Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (comte de La Bourdonnais) (Saint-Malo, 11 February 1699 – Paris, 10 November 1753) was a French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East India Company.
Bertrich Bertrich, a village and watering place of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, in a narrow valley running down to the Mosel near Cochem. Its waters are efficacious in cases of gout, rheumatism and biliary affections.
Bertucci's Bertucci's is a Northborough, Massachusetts-based company which runs a chain of sit-down pizza and Italian restaurants under the names Bertucci's Brick Oven Pizzeria and Bertucci's Brick Oven Ristorante. They also offer delivery and take-out.
Bertus Aafjes Lambertus Jacobus Johannes Aafjes (born May 12 1914 in Amsterdam - died April 23 1993 in Venlo), known as Bertus Aafjes was a Dutch poet. He wrote poems on the resistance to the German occupation during the World War II.
Bertus Erasmus Albertus ("Bertus") Johannes Erasmus (born December 17, 1977 in Harare - then Salisbury) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. Erasmus captained the Zimbabwean Under-19 Test team in 1997, losing two games and drawing once against England.
Beru Island Beru Island is an island located in the South Gilbert Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Beru (previously known as Eliza, Francis Island, Maria, Peroat, Peru Island or Sunday) is a reef, some 15 kilometers long (NW-SE) and 4.
Berufsakademie Mosbach The Berufsakademie (BA) - University of Cooperative Education - in Germany offers all enrolled applicants a degree program qualifying them for a profession through a tight combination of theory and practice. The aim is to offer students a practical but at the same time scientific-based degree which is an attractive alternative to other tertiary education degrees.
Berufsverbot Berufsverbot, a word meaning "professional disqualification", is the common name for the Anti-Radical Decree (Radikalenerlass), instituted by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and the premiers of the Länder on January 28, 1972.
Berwick and East Lothian (UK Parliament constituency) Berwick and East Lothian was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, until it was replaced by East Lothian and part of Roxburgh and Berwickshire for the 1983 general election. It largely replaced Berwick and Haddington in the 1950 general election.
Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency) Berwick and Haddington was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 when it replaced Berwickshire until it was replaced by Berwick and East Lothian for the 1950 general election.
Berwick cockle A Berwick cockle is a sweet (candy) coloured white with red stripes originally associated with Berwick-upon-Tweed, England. They are presumably named in reference to their cockle-like shape, the moulding process giving a flattened shape with an equatorial rib.
Berwick Kings Krajina Berwick Kings Football Club (aka Krajina) (Serbian Cyrillic: Крајина), is an Australian football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Victorian Provisional League Division 1 South-East.
Berwick Miners Berwick Miners are a small gridiron football team that plays in the Gridiron Victoria league in the state of Victoria, Australia. Their home ground is the Sysney Pargeter Reserve in Endeavour Hills in the south east suburbs of Melbourne.
Berwick Pursuivant Berwick Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary was a British office of arms created around 1460 for service to the Scottish Marches. Sir Richard St George began his heraldic service at the College of Arms in this capacity.
Berwick, Ontario Berwick is a community and the municpal seat of the Township of North Stormont in Ontario, Canada. The community is composed of farms, a school, a gas station/convenience store, and old hotel that in need of repairs with broken glass.
Berwick, Pennsylvania Berwick is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, 27 miles (43 km) southwest of Wilkes Barre. Light manufacturing industries have flourished in Berwick, which consolidated with the borough of West Berwick, where 5,512 people lived in 1910.
Berwyn Mountain UFO incident The Berwyn Mountain Incident, widely referred to as the 'British Roswell' or the 'Welsh Roswell', is the world famous and most well known British UFO crash story to date, next to the Rendlesham Forest Incident of 1980, also referred to as the British Roswell. The incident took place on the Berwyn Mountains in Llandrillo, Merionethshire, North Wales.
Berwyn railway station Berwyn railway station in Denbighshire, Wales, was formerly a station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line. It closed to passengers on Monday 18th January 1965 but has since reopened as a passing station on the preserved Llangollen Railway.
Berwyn range The Berwyn range (Y Berwyn / Mynydd Y Berwyn in Welsh) is an isolated and sparsely-populated area of moorland located in the north-east of Wales, United Kingdom, roughly bounded by Llangollen in the north-east, Corwen in the north-west, Bala in the south-west, and Oswestry in the south-east and is famously known for its alleged 1974 UFO crash known as the Berwyn Mountain Incident.
Berycopsis Berycopsis is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Cretaceous period. It was about 35 cm (1 ft 2 in) long and one of the first members of the Acanthopterygii, which includes the present day barracuda, swordfish, seahorse and flatfish.
Beryl (dragon) Beryl, also known by her full name of Beryllinthranox, was a gigantic green dragon in the fictional series of Dragonlance novels. She followed her cousin, Malys, the great red dragon, from the world of alien dragons to the world of Krynn.
Beryl Gaffney Beryl Gaffney (born April 1 1930) is a former Canadian politician and public servant. She served as a city councillor in Nepean, Ontario from 1978 to 1988 serving concurrently on the councl of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton.
Beryl Gilroy Beryl Agatha Gilroy (nee Alnwich) was born on 30 August 1924 in Skeldon village (now Corriverton, in Berbice, British Guiana. She grew up in a large, extended family, largely under the influence of her maternal grandmother, Sally Louisa James (1868-1967), a herbalist, manager of the family small-holding, keen reader, imparter to the young Beryl of the stories of ‘Long Bubbies’, Cabresses and Long Lady and a treasury of colloquial proverbs.
Beryl Ingham Beryl Ingham Was born in Haslingden, Lancashire in 1901 she was a dancer and actress, at the age of 11 she won the All England Step Dancing Title. Later she formed a dancing act with her sister May called: The Two Violets.
Beryl Shipley Beryl Cylde Shipley (born August 10 1926, in Kingsport, Tennessee) is an American former basketball coach. He was a longtime coach at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he broke the color barrier at that school.
Beryl the Peril Beryl the Peril was created by David Law, the creator of Dennis the Menace, for Issue 1 of The Topper comic (dated 7 February 1953). Like Dennis, she had black and red apparel, and devilishly torments her parents and other members of her community.
Beryl, West Virginia Beryl was a once thriving town, but homes and properties were slowly purchased over the years by Westvaco paper company. By the late 1900s, all the residents were gone, and the last standing home became an office for the Westvaco woodyard.
Beryllium copper Beryllium copper, also known as copper beryllium, CuBe or beryllium bronze, is a metal alloy of copper and 0.5 to 3% beryllium, and sometimes with other alloying elements, and has significant metalworking and operating performance qualities.
Beryllonite Beryllonite is a rare sodium beryllium phosphate mineral with formula NaBePO4. The tabular to prismatic monoclinic crystals vary from colorless to white or pale yellowish, and are transparent with a vitreous lustre.
Berzelii Park Berzelii Park is a small park in central Stockholm, Sweden, located next to Nybroplan and Norrmalmstorg. The park was opened in 1853 and is named after the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who stands statue in the middle of the park.
Berziers Cross A Black Cross used to in a forbidden exorcism on Valek in the plot line for the movie John Carpenter's Vampires. It is said that this object could give a vampire the ability to walk in the sunlight if the ritual given to Valek was completed or re-done.
Bes Bes (also spelt as Bisu) was an Egyptian deity worshipped in the later periods of dynastic history as a protector of households. While past studies identified Bes as a Middle Kingdom import from Nubia, some more recent research believes him to be an Egyptian native.
Besançon Astronomical Observatory The Observatoire des sciences de l'Univers de Besançon (Observatoire de Besançon for short, Besançon Astronomical Observatory or Besançon Observatory in English) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, National Center for Scientific Research). It is located in Besançon, France.
Besant Nagar Besant Nagar is one of Chennai's most elite neighbourhoods, named after the famous lady theosophist Annie Besant, and adjoins the Theosophical Society. The Theosophical Society HeadQuarters located here, is famed for its Banyan trees and serene settings.
Besapara Hill Besapara Hill (Halm Besapara 'h&lm be-sa-'pa-ra) is a hill of 250m projecting from Sopot Ice Piedmont in Livingston Island. The hill was mapped in the Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and is named after the ancient Thracian town of Besapara, ancestor of the present Bulgarian city of Pazardzhik.
Bescot Stadium railway station Bescot Stadium railway station serves the Bescot area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. (The station is actually situated in the borough of Sandwell, although it can only be reached from within the borough of Walsall.
Besha Starkman Besha Starkman (Tobin) (Perri), criminal; born 14 April 1889 in Poland; married (1) Harry Tobin on 15 December 1907, and they had two daughters, and (2) (in common law) Rocco Perri; died 15 August 1930 at Hamilton, Ontario, buried in Ohev Zedek Cemetery.
Beshalach Beshalach, Beshallach, or Beshalah (בשלח – Hebrew for “when [he] let go,” the second word and first distinctive word in the parshah) is the sixteenth weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 13:17–17:16.
Beshara Doumani Beshara Doumani is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley specializing in Middle Eastern history. A frequent commentator on Middle East affairs appearing regularly in various media, he is amongst a handful of academics that also serve as public intellectuals in bridging the gap and furthering greater understanding between the Middle East and the West by providing thoughtful and nuanced analysis.
Beshitta River The Beshitta River (Ge'ez: በሽታ bešitā, Amharic "disease, sickness"; also spelled Bashito) is located in Ethiopia. The river originates near Amba Mariam in the Amhara Region, and flows southwest into the Abay River, also known as the Blue Nile.
Beshkempir Beshkempir (released as Beshkempir the Adopted Son in Anglophone countries, Le fils adoptif : Beshkempir in Francophone countries) is a 1998 Kyrgyz language film. Shot and produced in Kyrgyzstan, it is representative of the first wave of independently produced cinema in the country after its independence from Soviet Union.
Beshtau Beshtau (Russian: Бештау, from Turkic "besh" - five and "tau" - mountain) is an isolated five-domed igneous mountain (laccolith) near Pyatigorsk in the Northern Caucasus. Its height is 1402 m.
Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland The Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland (BREIN) translates roughly as Entertainment Industry Rights Protection (association of the) Netherlands. BREIN is a trade association representing both the Dutch recording industry and movie studios.
Beside You in Time Beside You in Time (also known as Halo 22) is an upcoming live video release by Nine Inch Nails to be issued in the US on February 27, 2007. "Beside You in Time" is also the title of the penultimate track on the NIN album With Teeth.
Beside Yourself Beside Yourself is a compilation album by Australian progressive rock band The Church, combining the iTunes Exclusive Tracks EP, the Forget Yourself United States bonus disc, tracks from the Australian "Song In Space" single, and unreleased tracks from the Forget Yourself sessions. It was released in 2004 on the
Besieged planet In astrology, a besieged planet is a planet that is placed between two malefic planets, namely Mars and Saturn. Besieged planets are believed to be very restricted in their functioning, so even if a planet is a benefic, the very fact that it is besieged means the beneficial attributes it would normally emanate will be lessened whilst in that configuration.
Beskow Beskow is a Swedish family of German origin, taking its name from the town of Beeskow in Prussia. The first member to settle in the Swedish realm was the tailor alderman Arendt Beskow (1718-1790) in Stralsund in what was then Swedish Pomerania.
Beslan charity efforts Countries and charities around the world donated to funds set up to assist the families and children that were involved in the Beslan school hostage crisis (also known as the Beslan massacre). As of the end of 2004 the International Foundation For Terror Act Victims had raised over $1.
Beslan school hostage crisis The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan Massacre) began when armed Muslim terroriststook more than 1200 school children and adults hostage] on [[September 1 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
Beslidhja Skaut Albania Beslidhja Skaut Albania, or more fully Organizata Skautiste Shqiptare Beslidhja Skaut Albania, is the primary national Scouting organization of Albania. It was founded in 2004 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 2005.
Besme Besme, real name apparently Charles Dianovitz, was a Bohemian in the pay of the Duke of Guise, is recorded as the assassin of Protestant leader Gaspard de Coligny in 1571, using either a dagger or a "big sword". The assassin group called itself Picards de Bohème.
Besozzo Besozzo is a typical Northern Italian village, in the province of Varese, in the Lombardy region, hosting a small historical centre with churches and noble houses, so-called Palazzi, in its upper part which is in part pedestrian zone, and a vivid modern centre with shops, cafes, banks etc. in its lower part.
Bespin Bespin is a fictional planet in The Empire Strikes Back over which the floating city Cloud City hovers suspended by an antigravity pod. Bespin is also a major source of tibanna gas, which is refined for production and transport in Cloud City and used in the production of starship blasters.
Bespoke Bespoke is a usually British English term for tailored clothing made at a customer's behest, and exactly to the customer's specification. Bespoke clothing is created without use of a pre-existing pattern, differentiating it from made to measure, which alters a standard-sized pattern to fit the customer.
Bespopovtsy Bespopovtsy (, "priestless") is one of the two major strains of Old Believers, the one that rejects priests and a number of church rites, such as eucharist. There are several confessions of them: Pomortsy, Fedoseyans, Filippians, Beguny ("Runners"), Netovtsy/Netovshchina, and some others.
Bess (censorware) Bess is a brand of censorware made by Secure Computing Corporation, which acquired maker N2H2 in 2003; it is usually used in libraries and schools. The main purpose of the system is as an internet filter, blocking minors using the public computers from accessing web content deemed inappropriate by the Bess manufacturers or local administration.
Bess Eaton Bess Eaton or Bess Eaton Donut Flour Company Incorporated started as a bread and bakery products manufacturer and later as an operator of a small chain of coffee shops based in southern New England, often serving donuts, bagels, and muffins.
Bess Flowers Bess Flowers (November 23, 1898 - July 28, 1984) was an American actress, by some counts considered the most prolific actress in the history of Hollywood. Known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras," Flowers was born in Sherman, Texas.
Bess Meredyth Bess Meredyth (February 12, 1890 - July 13, 1969) was an award-winning film writer and silent film actress. The wife of the Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, Meredyth wrote The Affairs of Cellini (1934) and adapted The Unsuspected (1947).
Bessarabia Bessarabia (Basarabia in Romanian, Бесарабія in Ukrainian, Бессарабия in Russian, Бесарабия in Bulgarian, Besarabya in Turkish) is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the East and the Prut River on the West. This was the name by which Imperial Russia designated the eastern part of the principality of Moldavia ceded by the Ottoman Empire to Russia in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812.
Bessarabia Germans The Bessarabia Germans are an ethnic group and part of the Black Sea Germans, who lived in Bessarabia (today part of Moldova and Ukraine) between 1814 and 1940. Between 1814 and 1842, they immigrated from the German areas WĂĽrttemberg and Prussia to the Russian government of Bessarabia at the Black Sea.
Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic The Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic or Bessarabian SSR () was a government formed by Bolsheviks as part of their plans to establish control over Bessarabia, which was united with Romania in the course of events after the Russian Revolution of 1917. The state with this name never came into existence.
Bessastaðir Bessastaðir is the residence of the President of Iceland and is situated on Álftanes, not far from the capital city, Reykjavík. From 1805 to 1846, Bessastaðir was a schoolhouse, where many of Iceland's most famous luminaries studied.
Bessbrook Bessbrook is a village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, with approximately 3000 inhabitants. It lies about three miles west of the regional centre of Newry, County Down, and close to the main Dublin-Belfast road and rail line.
Bessel beam A Bessel beam is a beam of electromagnetic radiation whose intensity is described by a Bessel function. The most important property of these beams, in many optical applications, is that they are non-diffractive.
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (B&LE; AAR reporting mark BLE) was a railroad company operating in western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The railroad's main route ran from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio to North Bessemer, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, a distance of 139 miles.
Bessemer Gold Medal The Bessemer Gold Medal is an annual prize awarded by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining for "outstanding services to the steel industry". It was established and endowed by Sir Henry Bessemer in 1874.
Bessemer Park Bessemer Park was created in 1904 by The South Park Commission as part of a neighborhood park system. Living conditions for immigrants arriving in Chicago in search of the "American dream" had become intolerable due to overcrowded housing condition.
Bessemer Trust Bessemer Trust is a wealth management and investment advisory firm established in 1907 by Henry Phipps, a partner of Andrew Carnegie in the Carnegie Steel Company. From 1907 to 1974 the private company managed the substantial assets of the Phipps family and was headed up a family member.
Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas.
Besserud Besserud is a station on Holmenkollbanen (line 1) on the Oslo T-bane system, between Midtstuen and Holmenkollen. It was the terminus station of the original line from its opening May 31 1898 until May 16 1916 when the line was extended to Frognerseteren.
Bessi The Bessi were an independent Thracian tribe who lived in a territory ranging from Moesia to Mount Rhodope in southern Thrace, but are often mentioned as dwelling about Haemus, the mountain range that separates Moesia from Thrace. Herodotus described them as a sort of priestly-caste among the Satrae, the Bessi being interpreters of the prophetic utterances given by a priestess in an oracular shrine of Dionysus located on a mountain-top, which is thought to be Perperikon.
Bessie Barriscale Bessie Barriscale (born Elizabeth Barriscale, daughter of Irish immigrants from County Cork) (30 September 1884 - 30 June 1965) was an American silent-screen actress, and a major star for producer Thomas Ince in the late 1910s. She was also a star of the stage.
Bessie Brown Bessie Brown (Cleveland, Ohio 1895 - 1955), also known as "The Original" Bessie Brown, was a blues and classic jazz singer. She sometimes recorded under the pseudonyms of Sadie Green and Caroline Lee and should not be confused with her namesake, the Bessie Brown who recorded blues duets with George W.
Bessie Coleman Bessie "Queen Bess" Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926), was the first African American woman to become an airplane pilot, and the first American woman to hold an international pilot license.
Bessie Head Bessie Emery Head (1937-1986) is usually considered Botswana's most important writer. She was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, the child of a wealthy white South African woman and a black servant when interracial relationships were illegal in South Africa.
Bessie Thomashefsky Bessie Thomashefsky was a Jewish American singer and actress, a star in Yiddish theater beginning in the 1890s. She was the wife and stage partner of Boris Thomashefsky, the most popular Yiddish leading man of his era.
Bessingham Bessingham is a village and civil parish in the North Norfolk district of the English county of Norfolk. It lies 8 miles north-north-west of Aylsham and 5 miles south-south-west of Cromer, and is in the Erpingham Hundred.
Bessus Bessus (died summer 329 BC) was a Persian nobleman and satrap of Bactria, and later king of Persia. According to classical sources, he killed his predecessor, Darius III Codomannus, after the Persian army had been defeated by Alexander the Great.
Best - The Greatest Hits BeSt is the greatest hits album release from S Club 7. Released on 2 June, 2003, it includes all 13 singles (from Bring it All Back to Say Goodbye) and 2 bonus tracks (Bring the House Down from 7 and previously unreleased Everybody Get Pumped).
Best 104 Best 104 is both Malaysia's first private radio station (though not the first commercial one, that honour belongs to Time Highway Radio), and the first to be based outside of Kuala Lumpur, in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. It began transmission in 1988 primarily as a station to suit the listening taste of the Johor state Sultan.
Best and Fairest Best and Fairest (also known as Fairest and Best in some competitions, notably the Australian Football League) is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.
Best American series The Best American series is an annually-published collection of books, published by Houghton Mifflin, each of which features a different genre or theme. Each book selects from works published in North America during the previous year, selected by a guest editor who is an established writer within the given field.
Best American Short Stories The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of the Best American Series published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has strived to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in contemporary American literature.
Best Available Control Technology Best Available Control Technology (BACT) is an emission limitation based on the maximum degree of reduction for each regulated air pollutant emitted from or that results from any new or modified stationary source. BACT is the emission rates that are achievable for a source or modification, determined on a case-by-case basis and taking into account energy, environmental and economic impacts, and other costs.
Best Available Technology Best Available Technology (or just BAT) is a "spare no expense" doctrine which prescribes the acquisition of the best technology available, without regard for traditional cost-benefit analyses. This can be the result of a future-oriented business strategy, or reflect concern for other factors, such as environmental impact.
Best Bakery case The Best Bakery case is the name used to refer to a case involving an incident which occurred on March 1, 2002, at a bakery (called Best Bakery) in Vadodara, India during the 2002 Gujarat violence in which 14 people were murdered, many of them burned to death.

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