The pilots flew in the dark, arrived at the simulated compound, and settled into a hover while the SEALs fast-roped down.
In my testing, I found that the phone sometimes registered a close hover as a touch.
The idea is to send a satellite to hover alongside a threatening asteroid and, using the gravitational attraction between the two objects, to pull the asteroid gradually off course.
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And we've had enough experience now that sometimes misinformation does arise, and there's intense speculation, and everybody sort of goes into a high hover.
We were also pretty excited to hear that a California-based tech company has developed a working hover bike that travels up to 30 mph.
But, as the pilot passed over the compound, pulled into a high hover, and began lowering the aircraft, he felt the Black Hawk getting away from him.
At the same time, such surrogate servers also allow helicopter parents to hover a bit too closely.
Just zoom into a pin, hover to see the locale, and click in to see the images that were taken at that point.
She does this now rather than ferry her doddering mother (a feisty Frances Sternhagen) to the grocery story or chitchat with her husband (a sad sack John Ellison Conlee) or hover over her daughter (a solid Phoebe Strole).
Linux, the free, open source operating system, continues to hover at a little over one percent.
Planck will need three manoeuvres in total to put it in a much tighter "hover" about L2.
The best times of year to visit are March to June or September to November, when temperatures hover at a pleasant 20 to 30C.
These include a quick preview function, which can show the contents of a folder when you hover over it and before you actually tap into it.
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In Nvidia's labs engineers hover around a cluster of 16 six-foot-tall computers that mimic the behavior of a future Nvidia product hooked up to an ordinary PC.
This means it can hover like a helicopter, but when flying forwards can reduce the speed of the main rotor and let the wings provide part of the lift.
Gone are the days when shop assistants might hover over a customer's shoulder to check that expensive volumes were not just being read and then put back on the shelf.
During their 20-year partnership, Levete and Kaplicky worked on the unusual Media Center at Lord's Cricket Ground, a spaceship-like structure that appears to hover above the ground, and a new Selfridges department store in Birmingham.
The Home software also can display SMS communications and Facebook messages as "chat heads" that hover over a user's screen regardless of what app is being used, another feature that places Facebook at the center of consumers' online interactions, no matter the medium.
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Most restaurants can serve liquor, but you must ask your server for the wine list (your server cannot mention alcohol until you do.) Restaurants are only allowed to serve one glass of alcohol per person, but occasionally a sympathetic waiter will hover near your table and "refill" your glass before you empty it.
On the domestic front, the clouds of inflation hover, putting a question mark over the sunny economic outlook.
One challenge would involve creating a magnetic head that could hover over those dots, read their signal and write new data onto the grid.
Similarly, if a high balance is reported as your credit limit and your spending is fairly consistent, your utilization ratio will hover near 100% on a monthly basis as well.
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So a club winning 100 games in a relatively balanced season--one in which many clubs hover close to 0.500--scores better than a 100-win team from a season with more disparity between weak and strong.
But the average age of a CEO running a large public company continues to hover around 54 years.
The idea is similar to the "mouse hover" feature on a PC, which sometimes reveals things before the mouse is clicked.
Hover over any icon and a pop-up window will appear with more information.
If you hover your mouse pointer over a pin, a small thumbnail pops-up, which you can click to see the photos from that area in the right-hand-side bar.
Worldwide the ranks of the obese hover near 400 million adults, a number projected to grow to 700 million by 2015.
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