Meanwhile, Comcast said it was launching a test of use-based pricing in unspecified markets.
By defying the UN and launching its nuclear test now, our correspondent says, Pyongyang is giving the new leadership in Beijing a very public test of its own.
North Korea had built up expectations for the explosion for months by launching rockets to test missile technology and then undertaking a propaganda campaign, a pattern seen in both 2006 and 2009.
Sooner rather than later the foreign-exchange markets will put our government to the test by launching a full-scale attack on the greenback.
The U.S. Department of Transportation today is launching an important road test involving 3, 000 vehicles in and around Ann Arbor, Mich.
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We did a lot of research and had a ton of comparable examples for each of our assumptions, but our first real test was launching our site.
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Rather, Iran says this plot represents its latest bid to join the space race, though Iran's foes fear the real aim may be to test missile launching capabilities for less peaceful purposes.
Vivus, aiming at surgically menopausal women, found a 64% increase in "satisfying" sexual activity in a small trial of premenopausal women (placebo was 42%) and is now launching a larger late-stage test in postmenopausal women.
Britain's government has been sitting on the fence: it is supposed to decide this year whether to allow the planting of GM crops but has decided to test the waters by launching a nationwide debate, including public meetings and a website.
In August, Iran performed a test of a rocket capable of launching a satellite into orbit.
"One of them heat check shots at that time, " he said, claiming he was unaware where he was standing and using the term for a player launching from extremely deep or extremely quickly to test how hot he really is.
Before launching, Mateschitz hired a market research firm to test Red Bull's acceptance.
It is launching a fleet of spy satellites and plans to test a rocket that can reenter the atmosphere--officially, for space shuttle research.
"If this is Kim Jong Il's welcoming present to a new president -- launching a missile like this and threatening to have a nuclear test -- I think it says a lot about the imperviousness ... of this regime in North Korea to any kind of diplomatic overtures, " Mr. Gates said.
The government wanted to introduce a new test for so called 'non doms' and were launching two consultations.
The Soviet empire fell not because radicals like Obama called for the US to destroy its nuclear arsenal, it fell because president Ronald Reagan ignored them and vastly expanded the US's nuclear arsenal while deploying short-range nuclear warheads in Europe and launching the US's missile defense program while renouncing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
As the first national wireless carrier to test, launch and market 4G technology, Sprint made history by launching 4G in Baltimore in September 2008.
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U.S. and South Korean officials have said that North Korea appears to be preparing to test-fire its long-range missile, the Taepodong-2, under the guise of launching a satellite into space.
The trouble is, having severed what few diplomatic ties it had with Pyongyang after last year's test-firing, there is not much the Japanese government can do to dissuade the North Koreans from launching their new missile.
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