Window and door manufacturers now make 8-foot-wide panels that can be combined to create a 32-foot-long stretch, for example.
The inspectors will have their work cut out: chemicals that can be combined to make deadly weapons often have ordinary civilian uses.
But a wiser strategy would be to ask how television and the database can be combined to produce new sorts of advertising in future.
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Google Glasses are already showing us ways in which visual recognition and augmented reality can be combined to provide a dizzying array of overlays and information.
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Could these be combined to bring us closer to the kind of natural, predictive experience of Apple's nearly decade-old Knowledge Navigator video than its 22 year-old Macintosh?
Radio telescopes can do a thousand times better than that because the observations of widely separated instruments can be combined to create the illusion of a huge dish.
Recently the concept of massively parallel processing has regained popularity as relatively inexpensive computers and large of amounts of memory can be combined to solve problems not previously able to be tackled.
In 2011, the US director of national intelligence concluded that Syria remained "dependent on foreign sources for key elements" of its chemical weapons programme, including precursor chemicals, which are generally dual-use chemicals that can be combined to produce blister or nerve agents.
Some very wealthy Russian buyers in the New York market have started partnering with developers before construction to make sure units in prime locations can be combined to create large, estate-size apartments, says Edward Mermelstein, a lawyer who works primarily with buyers from Russia and Eastern Europe.
They also need to be combined with steps to encourage more funded saving for old age and to ensure support for poorer pensioners.
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Some stipulated that it would also be OK for companies to fund a series of studies that could be combined, or to start one large trial and take an early look to get approval.
The headquarters of two Dorset councils are to be combined as part of measures to reduce spending.
The S Note is a unique tool that enables notes and sketches to be combined with other digital content in ready-to-use templates.
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Lip reading could be combined with speech to text to radically improve speech interaction.
This means mixing and matching components so that the same engineering and parts can be combined like Lego to produce a wide range of different vehicles.
As we suggested a month ago, these results really should be combined in order to get a more comparable picture to a year ago where April benefited from many of the same tailwinds.
We noted the 12% rise in active management fees over the past ten years and speculated this rise might be attributed to the combined forces of consultant conflicts of interest and lack of adequate disclosure to clients of information regarding fees.
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The collection manifold, which allows oil flows to be separated or combined without interrupting the flow, appears to have been damaged by an explosion.
Some, including Mastercard, which sent along a representative to the Demos fringe meeting, are pushing for the combined payment to be loaded on to a pre-paid card.
The BRABUS "iBusiness" is built to order and can be combined with any engine variant from the S 350 to the S 65.
Often, tax shelters involve cobbling together parts of the tax code that were probably never meant to be combined.
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If inflation is not to take off, freeing the currency needs to be combined with tight monetary and fiscal policies.
This allows high speed enterprise SSDS and HDDs to be combined with slower but higher capacity and lower prices storage systems.
Tony Dye and Gary Brinson, the two firms' chief investment officers, have left and the two companies are to be combined.
The African qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup are to be combined with the preliminaries for the 2010 African Nations Cup finals.
Sensor technologies can be combined with mobile devices to deliver ongoing monitoring and tracking, as well as GPS location and emergency communications.
Large amounts of data in Oil and Gas is exploration data and needs to be combined with GIS systems for visualization and analysis.
It consists of corporate bonds that although individually riskier than higher-rated issues, can be combined into a portfolio to generate a premium return, net of credit losses.
Nand memory is hot in devices like the iPod but can also be combined with server processors to boot up computers instantaneously, making Intel-based servers more desirable.
For the euro zone to find its way through this crisis, intervention in bond markets needs to be combined with a bolder overhaul of the system itself.
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