Last week President Bush gave his full backing to NASA's project to create a lunar base, and many believe that the moon could be a jumping off point for Martian exploration.
Perhaps rather than taking every element of the report into account, focusing on teacher pay could be a good leaping off point for future reforms, laying the groundwork for more exclusive top-tier education programs and other stepping stones to a more professional teaching labor pool.
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Even if it never does, owning a home may still be a wealth building proposition for two reasons: you are locking in your housing costs with a fixed-rate mortgage while rents continue to rise, and your mortgage will be paid off at some point in the future.
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The project boundary, which was originally set to be about 8 miles (12.8km) off Peveril Point at Swanage and The Needles, will now be 1.8 miles (3km) further away from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
The project boundary, which was originally set to be about eight miles (12.8km) off Peveril Point at Swanage and The Needles, will now be 1.8 miles (3km) further away from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
The island's council wants to allow prototype energy turbines to be installed off St Catherine's Point as part of its Solent Ocean Energy Centre project (SOEC).
Near the end of last year, Hachette Digital senior vice president Maja Thomas predicted that digital revenues at publishers would level off at some point and be two separate businesses, a digital one and a physical one.
Joe Kinnear, confirmed as Newcastle manager until the end of the season 24 hours before kick-off, will be happy with a point that takes them out of the bottom three of the Premier League as arch-rivals Sunderland fall into the drop zone.
New Yorkers who have long shrugged off corruption scandals may be reaching their breaking point, too.
If and when it gets to that point, she can be taken off the respirator.
Teams using inflatable rafts locate stranded pets and take them to a drop-off point, where they can be transported to a shelter.
For the end point, we would be better off measuring the ability of people to sit on the front porch and drink a mint julep.
Once a whiff of rising rates hits the wind, homebuyers are likely to gain motivation to sign on the dotted line and at that point, our economy will be off to the races.
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Shaving half a percentage point off our GDP growth would be hugely harmful and would have ripple effects.
Taxis will be able to park at the rank and coaches will be able to drop off in the bus drop-off point.
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England play a seven match one-day series in India, with the cut-off point for automatic Champions Trophy places to be confirmed after the second match.
In the survey, released today, 31% of respondents said they were worse off financially than they thought they would be at this point in their lives.
Others point out that all exploration costs can be off-set against any tax liable ones, and that a claim can go back as far as 25 years.
But the bar for throwing people off flights seems to be creeping lower, to the point where all it takes is mild disagreement with a flight attendant.
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She said needles could be switched from point north to south, sending people off in the wrong direction while trying to navigate off a hill or mountain in foul weather.
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As ominous as this may sound, the continued litigation is slowly whittling away whatever assets Countrywide has left to the point in which the company could be sent off into bankruptcy purgatory.
Radio 2 went on to change the wording used in the show and on phone messages to reflect that not all messages may be used, but the BBC Trust said the revision was still in breach of accuracy guidelines and needed to be amended further to make clear there was a cut off point.
Even if it sold off its remaining airplanes at this point it would be unable to pay its debts.
The point is that state residents will be much better off if the money goes into a business that is growing.
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At some point, the debt will need to be paid off, so there is always the possibility that the company will issue additional equity.
In August, the CBRC told banks that loans moved off their balance sheets up to that point must be returned by the end of next year.
Honestly, wondering whether it ultimately proves to be more than a well-designed novelty seems a little off the point.
"The important point is that metals investors should be taking some money off the table, " says Band, who just sold Newmont Mining after a 51% gain since April.
The point of nationalisation would be that it would make shareholders write off the losses against their own capital, and allow the state to take equity in exchange for a public rescue.
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