• Dr Duif also considered the possibility that, because the moon's shadow cools the air during an eclipse, this cooler, and thus denser, air might exert a different gravitational pull on the instruments.

    ECONOMIST: Gravitational anomalies

  • "Dravid has spent a lifetime in Sachin Tendulkar's shadow and the big batting records - centuries, number of runs scored - were never going to be his, but he is quite on his own in the slips, " according to Sambit Bal, editor of cricinfo.com, a cricket website.

    BBC: Dravid breaks world catch record

  • While the U.S. government is generously funding cultural activities of the group's members, the menacing shadow of CIA agents with confusing agendas haunts everyone's activities, public and private.

    WSJ: Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama

  • Though successful, Sotheby's would remain in the shadow cast by Christie's until Sotheby's entered the fine art trade in 1917, when the modern-day rivalry was born.

    FORBES: In the House

  • Shares in bakery firm Greggs rose 8% on the news but Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Rachel Reeves, described the policy reversal as "a total and utter shambles".

    BBC: Pasty tax: U-turn 'a shambles' says Labour

  • Researchers at Griffith University have managed to snap the first image of a single atom's shadow and, while the dark spot may be physically small, the implications for the field of quantum computing are huge.

    ENGADGET: Researchers capture a single atom's shadow, has implications for quantum computers

  • Labour's shadow minister for the cabinet office, Jon Trickett, welcomed the scheme, but said it needed to be viewed within the context of the pain caused by government spending cuts.

    BBC: Big Society fund launches with ?600m to invest

  • BEIJING China moved to rein in wildly popular but opaque investment products that form a key plank of the nation's shadow-banking system, after the high-profile failure of one product offered a glimpse of the risk they pose to the financial system.

    WSJ: China Tightens Regulations on Wealth Management

  • America's shadow falls on the case.

    ECONOMIST: Iranian justice

  • If approved by the CCG's shadow governing body on 17 September, the recommendations will be put to a 14-week formal public consultation.

    BBC: Friarage Hospital plans to go to public consultation

  • There was "nothing wrong with argument within the party" he said, and added that the ballot of party members on the shadow cabinet's policy on the single currency had given the party "breathing space".

    BBC: Back to front - Thatcher and Heath

  • The UK's shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said in the Commons he welcomed the agreements in principle but asked for assurances that they would not limit the UK's ability to act independently "in all circumstances" - such as the defence of overseas territories.

    BBC: Cameron and Sarkozy hail UK-France defence treaties

  • Experiments like the one he'll perform later this month or Lifton's Shadow Lab could let outsiders track the movement of a building's inhabitants and follow their behavior.

    FORBES: Breakthroughs

  • On a warm, late summer's evening, the barefooted Ethiopian ran nimbly across the ancient cobbles of the Appian Way to win the men's marathon underneath under the shadow of the Coliseum.

    CNN: Olympic memories: Bikila's triumph

  • And Maccarinelli is ready to take up the challenge and step out of Calzaghe's ominous shadow when he fights Afolabi on the undercard of Amir Khan's clash with Marco Antonio Barrera in Manchester.

    BBC: Maccarinelli inspired by Calzaghe

  • In fact, Mr. Gingrich was pursuing a long-shot bid for Congress, running as the 6th District's lone Republican in the shadow of Watergate.

    WSJ: Newt Gingrich's College Records Show a Professor Hatching Big Plans

  • And he described the shadow cabinet's decision as in the interest neither of the country nor of the Tory party.

    ECONOMIST: The Tories

  • For Ancelotti, the priority was to give some of Chelsea's shadow squad an opportunity on the Champions League stage and save established stars for sterner battles ahead.

    BBC: Sport - Football - Chelsea 2-2 Apoel Nicosia

  • For many voters, this all smacks of Japan's earlier attempt to escape the LDP's shadow, in 1993.

    ECONOMIST: Yukio Hatoyama resigns

  • Concerns over the health of U.S. banks have cast a shadow over the recent recovery, and the stress-test results, showing most U.S. banks would be well-capitalized in the event of an economic downturn, helped allay some of those worries.

    WSJ: Nasdaq Closes Above 3000

  • But Norilsk Nickel, with the world's largest reserves of the metal, treads in the shadow of rumors that the government is plotting to target it as it did Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil company Yukos.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • If they do not, and in the absence of dramatic improvements in Uzbekistan's economy, the maintenance of widespread socio-economic discontent will cast a shadow over the country's political stability regardless of who sits in the presidential palace.

    ECONOMIST: Uzbekistan's president is returned to office, surprise

  • She also highlighted how the party saw Iain Duncan Smith's shadow cabinet as a gift to the Lib Dems.

    BBC: Which way now for Lib Dems?

  • France regarded the Deutschmark as an instrument of economic terror, forcing it either to shadow the Bundesbank's monetary policy or to devalue the franc.

    ECONOMIST: Germany's role in the world

  • The conference was told that Labour's shadow cabinet would visit Wales in the run-up to the 2015 general election to learn from Labour assembly members.

    BBC: Wales politics

  • Marlborough exemplified England's class system, for it lay in the shadow of Marlborough College, one of the nation's great public schools, a preserve of tradition and privilege.

    ECONOMIST: William Golding

  • Dr Duif rules out a third explanation, too: that cooling of the Earth's crust due to the eclipse shadow causes the ground to tilt slightly, and thus distorts the results.

    ECONOMIST: Gravitational anomalies

  • Attlee was unable to subdue Nye Bevan - a heroic figure for the party's left - who quit the shadow cabinet and was almost expelled from the party a year later.

    BBC: CONSERVATIVE VICTORY

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