• And that geometrical prediction was confirmed directly by the Sloan survey, using the known distances of 500m light years to the density peak and 13 billion light years to the region where the microwave background originates as reference points to look for geometrical distortion, in the way that a more traditional land survey might use triangulation points.

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  • Others will read the comment as a simple reference to the effect that any poor-performing franchise in a top media market has on its respective league.

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  • This information is rampant in the information security community, but not so much in the vendor community, as evidenced by your reference to the PC Magazine article.

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  • If you excuse the personal reference, as we used to say in the Senate, this is one good man -- one good man.

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  • The comment was no more specific than that, but could be taken as an oblique reference to the fact that Giaka still has family within the reach of the Libyan authorities.

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  • The woman, later identified as Amanda Berry, apparently was making reference to the owner of the house, whom police have identified as Ariel Castro, and who has been charged in the case.

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  • Many saw it as a reference to the 1993 race when, despite the PM's misgivings, Anwar's "Vision Team" swept the polls.

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  • The term "foreigners" was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled reference to the chairman of Premier League side Mathare United, Bob Munro, who is a Canadian national.

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  • The whole device, together with a second electrode (known as a reference) to complete the circuit, is then mounted on a stick.

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  • It is still known there as Hindustan Unilever, a reference to the decades its local subsidiary spent as an essentially independent company before its fuller integration into the global firm in recent years.

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  • The press quotes a little know lab, Alab-Berlin, as the source of the evidence but there is no reference to the report this morning on the alab-berlin.de website.

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  • Now, officials at the Swiss National Bank are considering what currency or basket of currencies would replace the euro as its reference point for the currency ceiling, according to a person familiar with the situation.

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  • It can be as simple as trying to justify Fitzgerald's reference to a pink suit in The Great Gatsby.

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  • The fact that there has not been a big terrorist attack against the West since the one in Madrid last March does not mean that the threat has gone away: as Osama bin Laden's reference to the wrongs done to Muslims in 8th-century Andalucia shows, Islamist terrorists work on a longer time-scale than most people.

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  • Addressing MPs on 28 June 2012, the chancellor described the Libor and the European Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) as "the benchmark reference rates which are fundamental to the workings of the UK, European and international financial markets".

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  • The President made reference to the Humboldt National Park as an example of the Government's policy to give priority to the protection of the environment.

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  • The 300, 000 residents here chose street names such as Avenida Santa Teresa, in reference to the neighborhood's largest church, and Calle la Luz because it was in the first area in the country that had electric light.

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  • During his ceremony speech Markowitz referred to Ratner as "Cousin Brucie, " a reference to the famed, Brooklyn-born radio DJ.

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  • But for hardcore Bush-watchers among the White House press corps, ever on the alert for a "Bushism", the line that stole the show was his reference to the revered New Yorker, as "some East Coast magazine".

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  • On the Senate side, Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray made her own joking reference to the papal decision as the panel began considering the first full Democratic spending plan in recent years.

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  • And even as the majority staff chooses to rewrite the Starr referral, they, as we, has a ready reference point which they have apparently rejected.

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  • The meeting was held to discuss and prepare a programme module and its activities, as a reference to ASPNet's schools to further plan and deliver its own programmes and activities at the school level in order to cultivate a sense of peace among students.

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  • He argued that made the bill "hybrid" legislation - meaning it made reference to local issues as well as dealing with the UK-wide system - and wanted parliamentary clerks known as "the Examiners" to study the proposals.

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  • The bottom line is that the cylinders have now passed their useful shelf life as the ultimate reference for the kilogram and as a result, scientists around the world have been working on new ways to define the kilogram.

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  • He used the reference to gain work as a locum in Leicester and the Isle of Wight.

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