Hairs that fall to the ground can be active for up to five years.
Individual wells can be active for decades, slowly pulling (or stripping) more oil and gas out of the ground.
In September, I visited China, where my organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council, has been active for nearly 15 years.
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Experts recommend that people should try to be active for half an hour on five or more days of the week.
Bryan, 55, has been active for more than a decade in suicide-prevention initiatives, and has observed notable changes in how experts view survivors.
Rule No. 123 has been active for seven years, but only a handful of companies use it to expense stock options on the income statement.
In addition, sKyWIper may have been active for as long as five to eight years, or even more. sKyWIper uses compression and encryption techniques to encode its files.
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For a tidy sum and some untidiness, Kinect enables the kind of motion-sensing gameplay that has become the Wii's hallmark without having to strap the controller to various limbs (as with EA Active for Wii).
The Website -- this is the Website that is now active for people to donate on behalf of the relief and rebuilding efforts in Haiti that is being coordinated by former President Clinton and former President George W. Bush.
The strategic goal of SEE PhytoChemNet is the utilization of the local biodiversity to search for biologically active compounds for applications (biomedical, cosmetic, functional food etc.) and commercialization.
In some ways, the times cry out for more active government: for stronger regulation of banks and near-banks, for much more short-term government spending to counteract the contraction elsewhere in the economy, and for the establishment of a basic health-care system for everyone.
The dismay of investors was quickly apparent in the market for credit-default swaps (see chart) and in the equally active market for gossip.
These regulations will not only improve air quality for our nation's citizens, but will also create jobs and an active marketplace for emissions trading.
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And it will be a big jump for Labour's traditional voters to go from disaffection with their own party to active support for the Liberal Democrats.
The cybersecurity research community has discussed the concept of active defense for nearly a decade.
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So these are the areas where we have active requests for commodities, generators, and other support.
They ended active trading for the week at 6.923%, according to data provider Tradeweb.
The classic definition is someone who has served on active duty for more than six months.
The post notes that Zynga claims to have 250 million active users for games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars.
Today seven states have active markets for film tax breaks, with Tennessee ready to join in 2007 (see table).
Others advise selling an active fund for an index fund or vice versa.
Notably, mobile daily active users were larger than web daily active users for the first time in the fourth quarter.
Intellectual Ventures is building an active market for invention that allows buyers, sellers and inventors to realize value for their ideas.
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He has been an active ambassador for Skechers since the original deal.
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The patient should have to make an active request for death, signing a form saying clearly that this is what he wants.
This investment provides efficient access to important inventions and standards-essential patents and reinforces our leadership role in building an active market for invention.
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You know, you come on active duty for a certain period, but you also sign up for a contractual period if you're an enlisted Marine.
He had been an active fundraiser for charity, and in February this year he walked blindfold from Chester to Llandudno to raise money for blind service veterans.
So-called second-tier stocks, which include fast-growing regional oil company Bashneft , cosmetics-maker Kalina and popular-retailer Sedmoi Kontinent , have become an area of active trading for domestic investors.
RIM, of Waterloo, Ontario, is a frequent target of patent lawsuits, as the spread of cellphones makes the wireless industry among the most active battlegrounds for intellectual-property disputes.
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