By 2010, it also needs to have a successor to the shuttle, or one almost ready to fly.
When I visited, house-size graders were levelling it to within a six-inch tolerance, and it was almost ready to be paved.
Losing out on a property that you were almost ready to make an offer on because someone beat you to it can be heartbreaking.
Of the items on display, the one that looked most useful and almost ready for prime time was Sharp's media player with video-on-demand functions (above).
But also French and Italian readers will be able shortly to read books in their languages, thanks to other agreements that are almost ready to be formalized.
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Last week, the First Minister Peter Robinson said the strategy paper was almost ready for publication, but he acknowledged there are three areas of disagreement between the parties.
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The parties are held weekly or even multiple times per day just before a launch, with releases that are almost ready for the public but still running on test servers.
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Izhar Gafni, from Israel, spent 18 months just folding the material every-which-way in order to discover a strong enough design, and now he claims his technique is almost ready for mass production.
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He's cooked up prototype clamshells, controller-toting tablets, and built two top of the line gaming laptops along the way -- but now his dream is almost ready: the Razer Edge.
The release this week of the minutes of its last meeting created brief excitement when the minutes revealed that at that meeting three weeks ago members of the committee were more concerned about the economic slowdown and almost ready to take action.
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While some of these weapon and sensor systems like the Electromagnetic Railgun or the Free Electron Laser are at least a decade away, the Laser Weapon System and Air and Missile Defense Radar systems are almost ready for prime time deployment today.
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Like a couple ready to pounce on the next two vacated seats at the bar, we gave meaningful looks to one salesperson who was feigning that almost-ready-to-rock and roll look as he head nodded with his patrons.
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Among those worries are the fact the UK has an ageing RAF transport fleet which is stretched almost to capacity until replacements are ready, while the ability to fly warplanes from a British aircraft carrier will not be regenerated for almost a decade.
Those figures found a ready place in almost every news report about the Doha round that autumn.
It is difficult to separate out fact from fiction, sin from expiation, punishment from reward when we are so muddled about the facts and so ready to believe almost anything.
In an ideal world, the Ministry of Defence likes to keep at least two brigades, say, 10, 000 soldiers, ready to go almost anywhere for six months at virtually no notice.
After inching towards a rapprochement over the past few years, Louris and Olson have collaborated on Ready for the Flood, an almost-acoustic, not-quite-reunion disc.
The reasonable person would expect Roger Federer should be ready, because Roger Federer has seen almost everything in tennis.
Ironically, it comes from Spain: there, it took almost two decades of democracy before the voters were ready to trust the right.
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Humdrum crimes are declining almost everywhere, thanks to better street policing and the ready availability of legitimate ways of earning money.
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The problem is that EU leaders, who nowadays hold summits almost every month, are often too chummy to be ready to criticise each other.
It seemed almost too good to be true -- AMD looked ready to stick to its timing and deliver the first Fusion Brazos platform by early 2011.
Almost every force already has armed response vehicles, equipped and ready to attend the scene of a robbery or siege.
Almost two-thirds of those surveyed thought that the Vatican was ready for an African pontiff, while more than 50% believed the church would become more conservative under an African pope.
But five weeks is a pretty short period of time for something like this to get up and running and to be ready, as I believe it is now, or almost is, for homeowners to find out whether or not they qualify.
The drop slowed in the 1990s as the Got Milk? ads won their awards, but that was still the heyday of ready-to-eat breakfast cereal consumption, which drove almost a third of milk sales.
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The blacksmith had the ramrod out and he was shoving it into the muzzle, pumping and pumping and pumping furiously, his hand already on the trigger, and he was ready to fire, strangely calm with the tiger there, almost on him, its whiskers so close and surprisingly bright and rigid.
He also said the results of almost all the tests ordered by the Food Standards Agency so far would be ready by Friday.
He was almost a symbolic figure: young, energetic, polished, well-educated and ready to tackle challenges.
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Finally, though, that Android app is here, and it's (almost -- we'll let you know when it's live) ready to download in the Google Play store.
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