Iceland spar is a form of calcite that splits light into two beams.
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And this is an issue, by the way, that splits the Democratic Party more than it splits the GOP.
Success still depends on whether both sides can campaign without the rancour that splits them on almost every other issue.
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The work requestor specifies a workload as a package called a HIT (a Human Intelligence Task) that splits the overall workload across many workers, with specified goals, instructions and deadline.
Doug Miller of Wired reported that the main problem for BlackBerry is that few consumers are choosing to buy a BlackBerry for personal use so a feature that splits business and personal may have less appeal.
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One new company, CitiSoles, started by two New York University students, Susie Levitt and Katie Shea, offers a new twist: A ballet flat with a rubber sole that splits in the center, making it easier to fold and tuck into a zippered pouch, which also unfurls into a tote for carrying high heels home at night.
Of course, the latter comes with significant risk that he splits his party and swiftly finds himself out of a job.
Bronfman estimates that he splits his time evenly between business and charity.
The Palm Top requires the use of a proprietary file format that essentially splits the displayed image or video into three parts.
Beavers and other homeless say they were tired of a shelter system that often splits up families into different housing, does not provide a place for people to keep their possessions while they look for work and offers too few beds.
Some argue that endurance athletics have made a fetish out of negative splits and that giving them the boot may lead to more-spectacular performances.
This is biology-speak for a period of diversification so fast that the individual splits cannot be distinguished.
Fatah, too, retains the deep internal splits that contributed to its election defeat.
Tanona observes that reverse stock splits have a history of badly lagging the market initially, but outpreforming strongly eventually.
The move will assure party fealty to the presidential agenda, avoiding the internal splits that weakened the PRI in the past, analysts said.
It is hardly surprising that there are splits and power struggles.
And while I hope this is one of the reverse stock splits that result in higher prices for stockholders, I remember times when it has not.
What Dr Bininda-Emonds and his colleagues have shown, at least in this instance, is that the most important splits had already happened.
Amid heated Commons exchanges, Tony Baldry - who was a minister in the government of John Major that was riven by splits over Europe in the 1990s - accused rebels of "self indulgence" reminiscent of past divisions.
That was followed by further splits over the next 15m years, in which most of the big groups found today seem to have originated.
Once the line reaches the vault, it splits into two cables that then go into the Superdome.
And if those disputes lead to splits and new groups, that too must be a peaceful process, free of violence or coercion.
In the South, racist violence against civil-rights workers was constant, deepening sectional splits in the Democratic Party that would in time deliver the once solidly Democratic South to the Republicans.
Mouin Rabbani, a Jordan-based analyst with the International Crisis Group, a lobby in Brussels, thinks the combination of economic boycott, domestic discontent, criticism from radical groups abroad, the growing threat from Fatah and splits within Hamas itself meant that people who used to think time was on their side began to think it was working against them.
It is now clear that the migration of humans out of Africa was more complicated than previously thought, and that human history involved not just successive population splits, but also frequent mixing.
Baker, whose predecessor, Robert Thomson, is becoming CEO of the publishing entity that will be formed when News Corp. splits into two next year, just announced a slew of promotions meant to further the goal of integrating the WSJ and Dow Jones news operations.
Marathon swimming is so new that it's hard to obtain data on splits or compile any convincing evidence about strategy.
The issue reflects the regionalization of America's deep partisan divide, with splits in many states between populous urban areas that tend to be more liberal and larger, less populated rural areas that generally are more conservative.
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