So this is not something that State Department is doing in a vacuum at all.
They are desperate for someone to fill the vacuum at the heart of government.
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But imagine the convenience of having a vacuum at your elbow, to sweep up Cheerios and dog hair.
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Our correspondent says Mr Chavez's death has created a potential vacuum at the heart of his political movement.
The best members are becoming frustrated at the messaging vacuum, and some are moving to fill the void.
"There was really a vacuum at the top of the pyramid, " recalls Frenchman Henri Barguirdjian, 50, who runs the U.S. operations.
Benvenuti, the inventor of the panels, has been working on vacuum technology at CERN since the 1970s.
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The atoms in question were stripped of their outer electrons and trapped in an electric field, in a vacuum, at extremely low temperatures.
Now, with a vacuum growing at the centre, things smell different.
Designers at Dyson put their vacuum cleaners through elaborate impact tests, including ramming them into baseboards and table legs some 21, 000 times, at a rate of 30 impacts per minute.
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In order to assess executive pay, one has to raise the quality of the discussion in order to consider pay vs. performance rather than just look at pay in a vacuum.
The panels, delivered by SRB Energy, are derived from vacuum technology developed at CERN for particle accelerators.
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His first job was with vacuum tubes, at a company called Centralab.
Someone at the Superdome ran the microwave at the same time as the vacuum.
The need to address the vacuum in artistic leadership at the Met is urgent.
Mr Stark says vacuum-insulated windows at competitive prices could be on the market in three years.
And while all this goes on, at the center is a political vacuum.
"Security in a vacuum is no security at all, if you are just maintaining the conditions that created the problems in the first place, " Roth said.
At fromagerie Androuet cheeses can be vacuum-packed to take home, while luscious macaroons in flavours such as raspberry and blackcurrant can be found at Mococha light, alongside divine chocolates.
And when its aluminium coating is replaced with silver in a year or two's time (a huge vacuum-chamber housed at the telescope's base will be used to deposit metallic vapour on to the mirror's reflecting surface), it will be able to see into the infra-red with equal clarity, opening up a much neglected area of astronomy.
Flip and finance all you want, but at some point you have to sell vacuum cleaners.
When it's depressurized at altitude, it becomes a near-vacuum, causing the aforementioned heat-transfer problem.
''If we get it wrong, we could end up with nothing, and at the moment we're in a vacuum which creates a financial limbo and a planning limbo.
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The soldiers on the ground here have no political role, and at the moment, there is an administrative vacuum on the streets of many of these northern, newly liberated areas.
Tax policy is in such shambles that growth ideas might be heard--at a minimum, they'd fill the vacuum.
The Times Co. has been without a CEO for more than 10 months, at time when it can ill afford a leadership vacuum.
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Even so, the riots occurred at a time when Egypt was struggling with a security vacuum following Mubarak's ouster.
To be frank, we're not vacuum experts, but we're probably coming at this from the same angle as the general consumer.
"These boxes are really like having another compartment in your brain, " says Douglas Medema, an industrial design manager at Bissell, a Grand Rapids, Mich. maker of vacuum cleaners and an Inventables subscriber.
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