But my recent session under the needle had me thinking about implications beyond the opinions of others.
In a process the researchers describe in articles published today in Science and Advanced Materials, they used a silicon needle with a tip about ten thousand times smaller than an ant to sculpt a polymer material known as polyphthalaldehyde.
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Today, customized executive education is about moving the needle in terms of business outcomes.
In 2008 and 2009, he could go about buying entire haystacks, and worry about finding the needle later.
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At Christmastime 2008, Von Lipinski didn't think much about the pine needle prick until the redness started spreading and he experienced abnormal pain.
But whatever the reason for the surge, artists who are a part of it only start to move the needle when people are talking about them, generating buzz.
The teen's feet were chewed and he was about to take a needle to his blisters.
While some traditional marketers obsess about creative, the biggest needle mover on performance is good list segmentation.
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"It was a nerve-wracking experience, watching the needle go in and having to think about the risks to the baby that went along with it, " he said.
Suddenly we were coming about again, and I watched the compass needle whirl to its new heading.
In 1878, the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, originally cut from the quarries of Aswan in about 1475 BC, was erected in London.
Jamie Murphy in What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunization and Eleanor McBean in The Poisoned Needle recount many case histories of children and adults maimed and killed by the smallpox vaccine, including many gruesome old photographs.
While that might sound a bit pretentious, and just about as fun as, say, a sewing needle injury, Fashion's Night Out started for a more practical reason: To help the struggling U.S. clothing industry in an era of economic uncertainty.
American Needle, Inc. did not have much of a sense of humor about this and sued the NFL under antitrust principles.
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Republicans and conservatives who are so consumed by these "scandals" should ask themselves why, despite wall-to-wall media attention and the constant focus inside the Beltway--some are even talking about grounds for impeachment--Obama's job-approval needle hasn't moved.
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Needle, knife, abacus, eyeglasses: These are my favorite tools when I think about humanity's origins and future.
Dr Towler set about measuring the strength of fingernails by dropping a small, diamond-tipped needle on to them.
Instead they talk about how they are compelled to do what they do, because moving the needle even a fraction is better than doing nothing.
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In its own unusual way, Vita Needle proves that by changing a little to accommodate an older workforce being more flexible about working hours, tolerating older people's technophobia (the fax machine has been accepted, but computerisation is still at least a year away) and, above all, stressing trust it is possible to gain a lot.
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