• At present, Superbot units respond to direct instructions, such as to form legs and climb a hill or reconfigure into a snake-like shape to go through a pipe.

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  • The meetings also helped to improve the general understanding among participants of what can realistically be done, as well as to form the core of a stakeholder network that will ensure that this action plan is carried out successfully.

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  • It will also give the Keeper of the Registers authority and flexibility as to the form of the land register, in particular it allows the land register to be in electronic form.

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  • Its nice to the see the leftists such as yourself keeping to form in making up things as they go along in their wretched lives being the great parasites that they are.

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  • His memories of 1930s unemployment may have done as much to form his views on industrial relations.

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  • The biggest challenge for the international force will be maintaining the equilibrium between the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance, whose unpaid fighters are still camped out around Kabul, and the Pushtuns who, as the largest ethnic group, will want a bigger slice of power as efforts to form a new government gather pace.

    ECONOMIST: At last, signs of hope

  • Initially dismissive of her gawky neighbor, Ruth warms to Minnie and sees potential for her as they begin to form a friendship.

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  • That system, which redistributes votes from eliminated candidates until someone crosses the 50% line, is marginally helpful to smaller parties, and very helpful for those, such as the Lib Dems, who might hope to form electoral pacts, as it allows supporters to give allies their second preferences.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • This is a much more plausible reason as to why the stock market is a leading indicator for the economy, as opposed to some form of investor omniscience.

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  • Apparently the skills that are required to be a successful lawyer representing a class of wronged investors are not necessarily the same as those required to form sound on-on-one relationships.

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  • During the Great Depression, Maritz was left with inventory but no customers, so its then-CEO decided to try to sell the inventory as a form of reward to long-term employees.

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  • Felter says with games offering more interactivity than other internet media such as video, they are likely to open up as a new form of online communication, particularly now that companies such as GameSalad are opening up game creation to non-experts.

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  • Last September, the Obama administration actually co-sponsored a resolution with Egypt (representing the OIC) in the UN Human Rights Council, calling on the United Nation's member states to limit such expression, as part of the OIC's ongoing campaign to have the UN recognize Islamophobia as a form of racism subject to prosecution under international law.

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  • If there is going to be a preferential rate for capital gains, people are going to try to structure as much of their income to take the form of capital gain as possible.

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  • You could argue this is as close to a pure art form as a concept car can get.

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  • But these are batched into larger coalitions, of which several stand out as most likely to form a government.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq takes another step down a long, hard road | The

  • Welshman Bradley Dredge and England's Kenneth Ferrie are both struggling to find their form as they prepare to make their debuts at next month's Masters.

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  • President Bush has always actually been closer to Democrats than Republicans on this issue, favoring a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that congressional conservatives object to as a form of amnesty.

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  • Between them, they have developed computational methods to crunch the numbers involved in quantum theory in ways that allow chemists to make sense of the behaviour of atoms as they bond together to form molecules.

    ECONOMIST: The 1998 Nobel prizes

  • "Any discussion needs to address both direct support, as granted by European governments to Airbus in the form of loans, and indirect support, as provided by the US government to Boeing, " an EC spokeswoman said.

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  • Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe of the ruling ZANU-PF signed a power-sharing deal in September, but it has failed to take effect as the MDC has refused to form a national unity government, accusing Mugabe of taking all the key ministries.

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  • But trying to evaluate the relationship consequences of this practice is premature, as is trying to identify what older form of relating such as parallel play the new multi-screen reality most closely resembles.

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  • League officials like to describe this as a form of civic philanthropy a nod to the little towns that might otherwise be ignored.

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  • The players failed to find their club form as England were held to a 1-1 draw by the United States in their World Cup group opener on 11 June ahead of a dour scoreless stalemate with Algeria on 18 June.

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  • "I think there is an enormous amount of uncertainty as to what institutions, what form of governance, is going to emerge from the post war situation, " he said.

    BBC: Iraq war 'will hit Mid-East growth'

  • In his hurry to champion this as a form of truth-telling, though, Shirky seems to miss the fact that very similar networks perpetuate the idea that Barack Obama is an African, or Saddam Hussein supported al-Qaeda.

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  • It is said that the Romans often cut down a fir tree to keep in their houses during the sparse winter months as a form of appeasement to the goddess Ceres (originally Demeter, Greek goddess of the hearth).

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  • With this in mind, it seems a good time to take a look at the actual policies and laws at work here as, only then, can individual Americans form a realistic position as to whether or not these policies are unfair to the majority of income-tax paying Americans or necessary and proper policies that benefit the nation as a whole.

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  • The Angola tournament has been eagerly anticipated as an early chance to assess the form of African powerhouses such as Drogba and Toure's Ivory Coast, Essien's Ghana and Eto'o's Cameroon ahead of the World Cup.

    CNN: Assistant coach among dead in attack on Togo team

  • And the new styles are sure to catch the eye during their two high-profile matches as they look to upset the form book.

    BBC: Cricket World Cup: Short, back and wides for Ireland

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