The steepest declines in Pegasus shares have come in the last month, after a series of negative news articles taking Knabb to task for his background and his prior business associations.

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Likewise, the first software I download for any Android device is a task manager to kill background tasks and apps The reason is simple.

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Web Workers, for instance, is an emerging system for isolating a browser's individual tasks into separate "threads, " making it easier for a browser-based program to perform a computationally intensive task such as photo-editing in a background tab while the user is attending to something else, like e-mail, in the foreground.

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"We all bring with us to the court or to any task we undertake, our own lifetime of experiences and background, " she told CNN in a May 2003 interview.

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With a background in both agriculture and finance, Kevin was ideally suited for the task and made Nicaragua not only his project, but also his home, marrying a Nicaraguan and starting a family there.

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As soon as you back off, say by switching off the background music and allowing your foreground process to have all the processing power (and thereby complete its task more quickly), the benefits of having a dual-core machine will become far less tangible.

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