Because radiation from the Crab nebula is so energetic, the electrons that created it must have been travelling very close to the speed of light so close that the difference between the two speeds would bump up against Planck-scale graininess, and show up in the spectrum of the radiation.
Syria will not initiate a full-scale war against Israel because it would lose a full-scale war.
U.S. military analysts figured out during the early days of the Cold War that no effective defense against a large-scale nuclear attack was likely to be feasible.
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This is beneficial in guarding against a full-scale banking crisis, but it is not sufficient to secure levels of new bank lending to productive customers that is necessary given the European slump.
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Senate Republicans are on the verge of a full-scale revolt against the White House.
In recent months, there had been several large-scale demonstrations against factories being built in various cities.
When asked if they would be for or against the development of large-scale wind energy projects being built in their council area, 77% of SNP supporters, 71% of Liberal Democrat supporters, 64% of Labour supporters and 53% of Conservative supporters said they were in favour.
That could put the squeeze on local builders who don't have the scale to compete against the deep-pocketed McMansion builders.
With the exception of one incident in Glasgow, there have been no large-scale marches or organised attacks against immigrants to match those of the 1970s.
With the U.S. government expected to begin a large-scale vaccination effort next month against the H1N1 flu virus, Obama said the first family will not get any special consideration compared to other Americans.
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With a full-scale Commons debate on violence against women due on Thursday, the International Development Committee (at 9.30am) takes evidence on Violence against Women and Girls, from NGOs, international campaigners and detectives from Metropolitan Police Child Abuse Investigation Command.
The U.S. intelligence community and special operations forces will continue to wage a vigorous campaign against the remnants of Al Qaeda, but the period of large-scale U.S. military activity in Southwest Asia is coming to a close.
Rome has cautioned that bidders must safeguard Alitalia's "national identity", saying the airline must maintain its main routes, and warning against large scale redundancies among the airline's current 18, 000-strong workforce.
She bought one on Ebay in 1997 and began photographing it against different backdrops, playing with the scale so the doll would look life-size.
He weighed the reptile on a hand scale, pulled out a clipboard -- protected with plastic against the drizzling rain -- and made a series of notes.
But unions are also the only large-scale movement left in America that persistently acts as a countervailing power against corporate power.
Hundreds of small-scale fishermen in Chile have clashed with police in several coastal towns as they protested against a proposed new fisheries law.
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"The amount of technology that goes into PCs is going up, and that tends to work against prices going down as fast as economies of scale are achieved, " says the IDC vice-president.
But if there is a strong large-scale push in general transportation, it might make the power industry fearful of having to compete against motorists for natural-gas supplies and thus more cautious about making a major commitment themselves.
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Advanced Micro Devices ' (nyse: AMD - news - people ) antitrust lawsuit against Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ), which alleges bullying behavior on a massive scale, offers one explanation as to why one of AMD's hottest chips never caught on.
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