Japan began to adapt the Chinese writing system for its own use around 1, 500 years ago, and it is still something of a mixed blessing.
Proto-Elamite is the oldest known undeciphered writing system.
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The exhibit makes its case by presenting a variety of innovations, including mass-produced goods and the first known system of writing.
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The city's financial and administrative systems relied on the world's first known system of writing, cuneiform, which was used to record transactions, issue receipts and compile inventories.
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"It is a bit ironic, but the fact that Apple currently has such a small market share versus Microsoft 's Windows means that there are far fewer hackers writing virus code for the Macintosh operating system, " says Pile, who notes the premium IT managers place on system reliability.
And the tax system is still subsidizing the donors writing the checks and the universities that are cashing them.
Some pay-day lenders reportedly threaten to use the criminal justice system to prosecute delinquent borrowers for writing bad cheques, a crime that carries a jail sentence in many states.
This symbolic system of notation also has shown scholars how writing first developed to provide a permanent record of information rather than as a way to set down spoken language.
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The Federal Aviation Administration plans to begin flight testing and writing rules aimed at integrating unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system as soon as 2015.
She took on tasks that went beyond her duty, but cemented her popularity with the soldiers by writing letters of condolence to relatives and setting up a banking system so soldiers could send money home.
This would be a writing off of more bad debts, not the collapse of the financial system.
Another way to put this is what on earth has happened to an education system where 20 year olds are still having to be taught writing skills?
From an Exchange facility front, before a share is traded it must go through a rule-writing process with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which lays out how the system works.
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The book, available on the government court document system Pacer, was not a best seller but for Bodnar it beat writing letters home from prison.
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One of the biggest challenges was writing software to integrate ADS-B with an older, less sophisticated collision-avoidance system.
The pledge system hadn't been officially created as of Tuesday, but fans were already writing in the site's comment section that they're willing to pony up.
The abrupt attack on the welfare system triggered by the comedian's incident met with loud protest from welfare experts and people writing to newspapers and in the blogosphere.
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The changes to the Welsh system follow a review which heard concerns about the quality of GCSE students' abilities at reading, writing and maths.
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