Another factor is the intense competition for observing time on the world's largest telescopes.
The best place of all to put a telescope for observing outer space, though, is outer space itself.
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For one thing, it gives a framework for observing the ongoing battle for market share in online storage services.
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These elaborate vocabularies also constitute particularly fine-grained and high-resolution conceptual frameworks for observing ice environments and noting subtle transitions and trends.
On average, less than a quarter of applications for observing time succeed.
Regardless of your political affiliation, the presidential debates gave us a great platform for observing what body language and speaking styles can do to create impressions.
Following the recommendations of the Framework for Ocean Observing, the emphasis of the GOOS Steering Committee will be the identification of Essential Ocean Variables, (EOVs), the physical, chemical, biogeochemical or ecological parameters of the oceans which can be measured, observed and used to continuously assess the state of the oceans.
While the exact reasons for this are not definitively stated, it is worth observing, for example, that even Chairman Kerry and Ranking Member Lugar of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee both staunch advocates of the New START treaty with Russia last year allowed testimony before their committee from two known treaty skeptics (though they were vastly outnumbered by witnesses in support of the treaty).
For opposition parties observing the mess, decentralisation is an appealing (if hardly catchy) solution.
This model while simple in structure, offers certain challenges for managers in observing their team or their employees.
Murphy also points to technicals to make the bullish case for gold, observing "a very tight reverse head-and-shoulders pattern" following the break from its high in February.
The continuing uncertainty surrounding the scandal "points towards the fact that for the first time in decades we might be observing a fight for the very future of China's economic, social and political development, " wrote Thomas Koenig, coordinator of the China Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Even though the suite of instruments for the E-ELT has yet to be finalized, ESO astronomer Joe Liske says the telescope will make observing time for cosmology, nearby galaxies, solar system studies and the burgeoning list of planets now known to circle other stars.
Now, even though he no longer works for Icahn and therefore is no longer fulfilling his duties of observing the board for Carl, Meister remains there.
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The Pakistani and Indian armies are for the most part observing a ceasefire along the LoC .
He was constantly on the hunt for new insights by observing the world through the eyes of an anthropologist.
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This raised the prospect that America could construct a limited missile shield for itself while still observing the treaty.
There is no room for boredom or passively observing.
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Sinn Fein claimed this was no more than a flag of convenience for loyalist groups, supposedly observing a ceasefire.
You can learn about training equipment, definitions of dog-training buzzwords and what to watch for when you're observing a class.
For ten days of actual observing time, the Hubble pointed to an area on the sky less than one percent of the size of the full moon.
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The inspiration for the gloves came from observing fellow college students who were deaf have difficulty communicating with other students, which results in them being excluded from activities.
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The Court affirmed the decision rendered by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, observing that, if purchasers were allowed to replicate the invention, there would be a mismatch between invention and reward and the patent would afford little protection to the inventor.
While it was unclear how reliable the source was at the time, the Tokyo stock market sucked it up anyway, with Bloomberg observing a significant rise for Sony and Nintendo after the rumor was published.
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The impetus for the creation of a coordinated observing system to provide baseline data and ensure sustained monitoring came from IOC in the late 1980s and resulted in the creating of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) in 1991.
In others, it is more of a mix of the physical and mental, such as the observing and collecting of specimens for Charles Darwin.
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Writing in the August issue, Tom Slee, who has been observing market ups and downs for decades, suggests that events are actually unfolding pretty much as expected.
For its first three-year phase, the Panel expects to spending the first year consulting, observing and reviewing in order to develop a set of recommendations for biodiversity-responsible oil spill clean-up.
Mexico raised the alert level for the Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City after observing increased explosive activity.
Mr Strauss-Kahn, who had pushed hardest for its creation, tartly dismissed this by observing that in a marriage one did not invite strangers into the bedroom.
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