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adjective basic, beginning, commencing, early, elementary, embryonic, first, fundamental, inaugural, inchoate, incipient, initiative, initiatory, introductory, leading, maiden, nascent, opening, original, prefatory, primal, primary, primus, pristine, rudimentary, starting
Associated concepts: initial carrier, initial fault, initial license, initial loss, initial payment, initial pleading, initial stage of a proceeding

INITIAL. Placed at the beginning. The initials of a man's name are the first letters of his Dame; as, G. W. for George Washington. When in a will the legatee is described by the initials of his name only, parol evidence may be given to prove his identity. 3 Ves. 148. And a signature made simply with initials is binding. 1 Denio, R. 471. But see Ersk. Inst. B. 3, t. 2, n. 8.

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This issue is reflected in an elastomer's high initial CSR relaxation and its high compression set values when test samples are removed at lower temperatures.

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Between 1994 and 1998, the proportion of clinic visits for gonorrhea infection that were due to reinfection increased significantly (from 19% to 21%), and the average age at initial infection among individuals who became reinfected decreased significantly (from 28 to 23 years).

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Many projects suffer sagging sales momentum after the initial in-rush because they did not properly plan to sustain their projected fill-up ramp of four to six units per month.

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FIST is an extremely powerful tool now adopted by all of the DoD for truly integrated tracking of FMS initial support logistics.

FMS Initial Support Team (FIST)

Producing a record of interested parties, or stakeholders, both internal (specifically, officers and support staff involved in the initial intervention projects) and external (including business and property owners, residents, and other city and government agencies)

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A board of managers of a condominium has the same fiduciary duty as a board of directors has to a cooperative, namely, that the members of the initial board of managers of a condominium must perform their duties in good faith and with that degree of care which an ordinary prudent person in a like position would use under similar circumstances.

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No randomness is built into the model, yet the final state of the system cannot be predicted with certainty if there is any error (no matter how small) in the measurement of the initial condition.

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Rather than immediately using an initial strategy, the physician executive should diagnose the other party's negotiation situation.

Negotiating with interactive scenarios and strategies

1502-20(c) provides taxpayers substantial relief from loss disallowance (at leat compared with that permitted under the initial regulations) because it allows taxpayers to claim the benefit of losses to the extent that they exceed --

Comments on revised loss disallowance regulations (T.D. 8294 and CO-93-90) January 23 1991

2002-15 for a late initial classification election if:

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500 square feet taken by Men's Bath Shoppe, a menswear retailer, at 131 Christopher Street, for a term of five years with an initial annual rent of $21,600, and increases aggregating the total rent to $121,813.