It has also served as a launch-pad for other hits on the network, including The Big Bang Theory and newcomer Mike and Molly.
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It may seem an unlikely place for a technological revolution, but Somerset is to be the launch-pad for a new generation of green cars.
The personal-loans market may also provide a launch-pad for other retail-finance businesses that are underdeveloped in Japan, such as credit cards and home-equity loans.
"Then the whole country could be confident that the Millennium Experience would be a genuine national celebration, not a New Labour launch-pad, " he said.
But this will require more than just the development of technologies to display the Internet on mobile devices, some of which are already on the launch-pad.
Elisa Carrio, an ex-member of Mr de la Rua's Radical party, had hoped to use the election as a launch-pad for a populist bid for the presidency.
The city of Trieste, for example, a mere 45-minute drive from Slovenia's capital, Ljubljana, is making a comeback as a launch-pad for doing business in the former communist world.
Ireland relies, as a launch-pad for multinationals, on its place in the EU. It survives on liquidity from the European Central Bank, and in any case cannot afford to cut itself off from Europe.
Then there was a silence and then suddenly there's this dazzling light that flashes at you from the base of the launch pad - and that's ignition.
"Developing a mid-class launch vehicle in Europe would have cost between three and five billion euros, and building the Soyuz launch pad has been just - if I can say 'just' - around 400 million euros, " he explained.
What if this could be a launch pad to re-examine the whole flawed passion that is college sports?
We eventually got to the Facebook Java app hidden inside the Applications folder -- apparently right-click on the D-pad should launch it but we had no luck with that.
For a US company, the UK - with the same language, similar culture and strong geographic and historic links with Europe and countries further afield like India and Africa - proves an excellent launch pad for international expansion.
One rocket leaves the launch pad, executes a 90-degree turn about 50 feet off the ground, streaks at several hundred miles an hour straight toward a group of landsailers, crashing just short of them in a cloud of white dust.
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With all this in mind, the Pad Rats at launch complex 39-A made their way to the 10 ordnance wires in question on Atlantis' stack as it sat on the pad.
Eventually, we will make our web browser a launch pad for our personalized recommendation engine and cloud-based services.
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The lessons that Bennett draws from recent history are familiar, and not only on the right: If Israel were to allow the establishment of a Palestinian state, what is now the West Bank would quickly become a second Gaza a Hamas-led bastion of Islamic radicalism, a launch pad for rocket fire aimed at Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport.
Among Internet start-ups, South by Southwest's 19-year-old "interactive" festival is a traditional launch pad, having given a boost to current stars Twitter Inc.
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He sits inside a hexagonal shape - the same shape, says Weidner, as the launch pad area of Apollo 11.
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Given that the e-mail service had 176m users in December, according to comScore, a market-research firm, that should give Buzz a handy launch pad.
VTech, which will never have the marketing clout of the rich-world giants, is happier using its market as a launch pad into electronics than into other sorts of toys.
We listened to emotionally-charged accounts of a desperate and frustrating attempt to keep Challenger on the launch pad.
The award would be presented to each crewmember from all 12 three-man Apollo missions, including the Apollo 7 and 9 Earth-orbit flights as well as the Apollo 1 crew, which perished in a launch pad fire in 1967.
The space industry of 2006 is like a rocket about to launch on its maiden voyage--nobody knows whether it will take off or just blow up on the pad.
It takes weeks to transport, assemble, fuel, and prepare the Taepodong-2, giving U.S. forces many opportunities to destroy the missile on its large launch pad.
In the case of the Challenger, the culprit was a simple O-ring that had become too brittle to do its job after a freezing night waiting on the launch pad.
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