But now, a group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Susan Hubbard, are lending a high-tech hand to California's grape-growers.
Still, security experts believe there's always a chance that a potential terrorist could slip onto a plane, regardless of whether he's subject to scanning at a high-tech kiosk or a hand search of bags and shoes.
With his left hand useless, he struggled slowly back to his team-mates in their vehicles, already aware that "the situation had suddenly, unexpectedly and with a high degree of frustration reached a situation where that hand wasn't going to be any good for -40C let along -80".
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This transaction will provide a stronger hand in the high-stakes game of global smartphones.
Initially, the company had high hopes that a helping hand would be lent by the flamboyant billionaire industrialist Kjell Inge Rokke whose company Aker Maritime controls 18% of Kvaerner's shares, making it the largest single share holder.
Raw recruits for the Royal Navy will be getting a first hand experience of life on board with a new high-tech training base on land.
The U.S. presents a mixed picture with high unemployment rate and a weak housing market on one hand and growing consumer spending on the other.
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On the other hand, a persistently high rate of inflation will discourage consumer spending as wages have not been rising in step with inflation.
My wife, on the other hand, has a high-quality stock frame, and has made repeat visits to bike fitters over the years for new stems, handlebar adjustments, etc.
Sweden has a complicated relationship with alcohol - immoderate consumption goes hand in hand with fearsomely high prices, official disapproval and a state monopoly on selling liquor.
"He wrapped a piece of emery cloth around the work piece, rotating at high speed, whilst leaving a single glove on one hand, " he said.
Britain's Inland Revenue last year won a landmark case obliging Barclays, a British high-street bank, to hand over the bank details of hundreds of thousands of offshore accounts held by British residents.
South Africa on the other hand will be on a high with two teams reaching the Super 14 final and will be wanting to set a marker down for their World Cup meeting with England in September.
Its aluminum chassis makes for quite a rigid device in hand, and the machined and polished bevel gives the V98 a very high-end look.
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Tara Whittington, a math teacher at Villa Rica High School near Atlanta, Georgia, who makes hand sanitizer available for her students, considers school closures a waste of time if only one student has H1N1, but supports dismissal if a quarter of the students become ill.
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Medtronic pays hundreds of thousands of royalties each year to various high-volume surgeons who have had a hand in inventing or designing certain devices.
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It also said it would be immoral to hand a patent to Glivec given its high price and the low standard of living in India.
These players continue to offer industry-leading high definition picture and sound quality as a result of hand selected, professional grade components and technologies.
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The Welsh international made light work of the Magpies defence as he wriggled into the box and struck a fantastic effort high into Given's top left-hand corner.
One unfortunate note on the LCD: we're not sure if Stantum didn't pick a high-quality part, had some trouble with the hand-built nature of this product, or is really impeding the LCD with its resistive overlay, but there was something cheap and pixelated to the display that we haven't noticed on standard Dell mini 10 LCDs.
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That pays for the high-tech printing, hand-binding and a presentation box that's covered in goatskin and linen.
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With over a million pixels in your hand, text is sharper, high-definition movies are more vivid, and the responsive touchscreen makes switching between apps, flicking through ebooks or surfing the web buttery-smooth.
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In those years, in fact, his main pitch was a hard, high fastball that seemed to burst out of his hand and run up toward the top of the strike zone, the precise opposite of a cutter.
But while most countries appear to be comfortable with women pursuing professions, the study also uncovered a lingering perception that men have an upper hand on landing high-paying jobs and are more entitled to employment in times when jobs are scarce.
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On the one hand, Telluride is a very affluent town with high real estate prices, on par with places like Aspen and Deer Valley, and as a result it has all the support industry, like dining, spas, services, and off slope activities like heli-skiing and dog sledding.
In Europe, on the other hand, efforts to keep taxes high have suffered a number of setbacks.
British shares, on the other hand, could be a big winner thanks to the high average free-float of British stocks.
"Some who have not shown their hand up to now may be ranked high in a year or two, " says Saludo.
The High Performance Chronograph on the other hand is offered with a black or white dial in a matte black ceramic case.
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