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  • Nearly all students will interpret con… fidence intervals at … first as a probability interval.

    The best paper I read this month 2009

  • For the past four years, Democratic New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt has been pushing his own extension of HAVA, the disturbingly titled "Voter Con (fidence) Act", which would enshrine into federal law the "rights" of private corporations to count our votes in secret using ever-increasing complex technology that even the most competent public official can not manage without corporate "support".

    America Needs a Voting Rights Movement 2009

  • During his campaign, Ma proposed direct flights, economic agreements, con­fidence-building measures CBM and a peace accord with China.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • They carry an unquantifiable cost: con fidence in the Internet as a "legitimate in strument" is suffering, says Cynthia Heijna, a spokeswoman at OPTA, a communications law-enforcement agency in The Hague.

    Escalating Spam Wars Take Their Toll 2008

  • Like so many other things in the world where con-fidence has taken over the rules of Knowledge: it is a myth.

    Liquidity Nightmare... Drowning In Cash 2007

  • Stabilization is the word to sustain con-fidence of course.

    Liquidity Nightmare... Drowning In Cash 2007

  • In response to the judgement of the Durban High Court in the case of the State v Schabir Shaik, which was handed down on 2 June 2005, the ANC affirmed the basic principles of justice, including the right to presumption of innocence, and reaffirmed its con fidence in the integrity of the country's legal system and the maturity of our democracy.

    Organisational Report 2007

  • He had every con - fidence that his identity would remain a secret.

    Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005

  • Its people also need the con - fidence to trust each other.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • They had con-fidence in the future, and felt sure it would do well by their children.

    The Case Against Kids Hacker, Andrew 2000

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