He says X Prize has refined its prize rules over several years based on his study of historical prizes, such as the 1714 prize the British government awarded for an instrument to measure longitude.
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As it turns out, even keeping people on antidepressants nonstop for two years is nearly impossible, based on several studies that have tried to accomplish this.
After their relentless run, American stockmarket prices are now based on the assumption of juicy earnings growth for several years into the future.
As the number of mineworkers has declined steadily over the past several years, a small manufacturing base has developed based on farm products that support the milling, canning, leather, and jute industries, as well as an apparel-assembly sector.
The problem is that people have set up their lives based on the climate that exists now, and has existed for the last several hundred years.
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In 2013, a 1.7% increase was approved, based on the index, which has been the basis for military pay for the past several years.
He says several drug companies are working on medicines based on the approach, but any treatments are years away.
When the economy is buoyed by too much borrowing, when those bills come due to every American household and to every American company that has been making a profit on irrational spending based on irrational lending, which, you know, which happen all over the place over the last several years, it's going to hurt people.
At the time, it produced shots with the most detail and best low-light performance we'd ever experienced on any cameraphone, ever -- make no mistake, it took several years before CMOS-based shooters caught up.
Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.
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