now

(adverb)

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

Related Terms

Examples of now in the following topics:

  • Ions and Ionic Bonds

    • This leaves it with an overall charge of +1 since there are now more protons than electrons.
    • It is now referred to as a sodium ion.
    • This gives it a net charge of -1 since there are now more electrons than protons.
    • It is now referred to as a chloride ion.
    • Both ions now satisfy the octet rule and have complete outer shells.

  • Ideological Interest Groups

    • Some examples of ideological interest groups include the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Taxpayers Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Christian Coalition.
    • NOW is an example of an ideological interest group.
    • However, NOW also works on a number of other issues.
    • The current priorities for NOW include constitutional equality, violence against women, diversity/racism, abortion rights/reproductive issues, lesbian rights, and economic justice.
    • National Organization for Women (NOW) founder and president Betty Friedan; NOW co-chair and Washington, D.C., lobbyist Barbara Ireton; and feminist attorney Marguerite Rawalt.

  • Defining the Time Value of Money

    • You can either have $500 right now, or I can give you $500 in a year.
    • " Presumably, you would ask to have the $500 right now.
    • If you took the money now, you could use it to buy a TV.
    • Since there's no cost to taking the money now, you might as well take it.
    • This is what the money is worth right now.

  • The Discrete Fourier Transform

    • Now we consider the third major use of the Fourier superposition.
    • Now we write down a Fourier approximation for the unknown function (i.e., a Fourier series with coefficients to be determined):
    • Now we will compute the coefficients in such a way that $p$ interpolates (i.e., fits exactly) the data at each $x_k$ :
    • Now, of course, there are many ways to interpolate data, but it is a theorem that the only way to interpolate with powers of $e^{i 2 \pi x}$ is Equation 4.6.3.

  • Example Transactions Showing How a Bank Can Create Money

    • Suppose a customer now deposits $1,000 in Anderson Bank.
    • There are now $11,000 in deposits in Anderson with $9,900 in loans outstanding.
    • Brentwood's deposits now total $10,900.
    • Thus, you can see that total deposits were $20,000 before the initial $1,000 deposit, and are now $21,900 after.

  • Understanding the Cost of Money

    • If a $100 note, payable in one year, sells for $80 now, then $80 is the present value of the note that will be worth $100 a year from now.
    • The trade-off between money now (holding money) and money later (investing) depends on, among other things, the rate of interest that can be earned by investing.
    • An investor with money has two options: to spend it right now or to save it.

  • Music in Different Keys

    • Before equal temperament became the standard tuning system, major keys sounded more different from each other than they do now.
    • Even now, there are subtle differences between the sound of a piece in one key or another, mostly because of differences in the timbre of various notes on the instruments or voices involved.

  • Types of Operations: Evolving from K, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade

    • We now have been introduced to all of the operations of the elementary curriculum:
    • Why learn these types of operations now?

  • Types of Operations: Evolving operations through the K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th Grade

    • We have now been introduced to all of the operations of the elementary curriculum:
    • Why learn these types of operations now?

  • Investor of involvement

    • The 115-page petition, signed by state treasurers, attorney generals and state fund managers in California, Florida, Maine, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Vermont, states that ‘climate change has now become a significant factor bearing on a company's financial condition… Investors are [therefore] looking for companies that are best positioned to avoid the financial risks associated with climate change and to capitalize on the new opportunities that greenhouse gas regulation will provide. ' The petition went on to claim that ‘Interest in climate risk is not limited to investors with a specific moral or policy interest in climate change; climate change now covers an enormous range of investors whose interest is purely financial…
    • Guidelines approved by the SEC in January of 2008 now require companies to weigh the impact of climate-change laws and regulations (including overseas regulations and accords) when assessing what information to include in corporate filings.