Those deep water rigs use an enormous amount of diesel fuel to turn the drill bit, and also resist the force that is turning the drill bit and would otherwise force the platform to start turning in the opposite direction.
He added these people must realise that the government intends to come down on them with every bit of force and authority it can.
The wheel has a very different feel from the G27 we've been using of late, a bit more resistance and force feedback effect.
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The overall clamping force is a bit tight out of the box, but after wearing it a few times, we noticed the headphones had already loosened up a good deal.
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Other widely watched data points: the average workweek climbed only slightly to 34.5 hours, and the labor force also increased a bit.
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Under 5% of the US wage earners make the minimum wage or less, which means that since wage earners only represent a bit over half the total work force (the rest are paid a fixed salary), those who earn the minimum wage make up less than 3% of the total work force.
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But you sacrifice a bit with 16:9 because they force traditional programming into a pillarbox format, with black bars on both sides--and if you're not careful, the bar pattern can burn itself into the screen.
However, he sees "a bit of schizophrenia" in its reluctance to force mutual fund companies to lower fees, as Spitzer has done in some recent cases.
It reminded me just a bit of a friend who I once saw being force-fed broad beans by her mother.
The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center says the track of the storm has shifted slightly to the west, making it a bit less likely the state will get hurricane-force gusts, but will still see high winds and a storm surge from high waves.
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We talked to the company a little bit about its coin-sized technological tour de force and we were shocked to learn that it doesn't instantly nuke your phone's battery -- the gentleman running demos said that he was getting about a days' worth between charges with occasional use.
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Every day, by sheer force of diligence, they make some small bit of progress toward their goals.
He fell trying to force a good ball from Mascarenhas which kept a bit low as it nipped back to hit off stump.
This will change a bit next month, when General David McKiernan, the NATO force's American commander, is due to take overall charge of both armies.
If you see Iraqis starting to work together in a centrist coalition, and security being consolidated by a rebuilt Iraqi police force, then you can be just a little bit optimistic.
For iRacing we found ourselves adding a little bit of what the company calls "drift, " which actually uses the force feedback motors to help you turn the wheel faster.
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It has the penetrative force of a piece of heavy industrial equipment, something with a diamond bit or tempered-steel blades.
Each of the Swap Force characters also grant access to special areas of the game, a bit like the Elemental zones but focused on the eight different classes of these mix and match toys.
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Gates backed off a bit from his frequently stated concern about the size of the U.S. force in Afghanistan, saying that McChrystal has argued that the size of the American force is not as important as to how it interacts with Afghan perception.
"I have expected that, over the years, people would start to recognize the athletes work very hard and it's kind of an unstable, unpaid labor force, and you would start to see those numbers creep up a little bit more, " Strudler said.
After bit mapping into digital (with a separate division) and dramatically reducing its global work force from 70, 000 to 18, 800, all seems to have rolled off the table for Kodak, but studies show that institutions with entrenched issues always have bright spots.
"People have become a geological force in their own right, and we are changing the planet in ways every bit as dramatic as major geological events, " Barnosky said.
We've been trying to murder a (UK-based) GS III here at Engadget, but with no luck as yet -- we can cause the malicious digits to appear in the dialer, but we can't force the stock browser to visit them as a URL, even when trying a bit of URL forwarding and QR code trickery.
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Nellie negotiated that sum down a bit and forced the Athens Stock Exchange to freeze trading of Alumil stock so that the kidnappers couldn't force her to liquidate the family's 70% holding.
We experienced this issue with a MacBook Air and Samsung Galaxy Note II -- you can force the flexible cable to twist into the necessary position, but it appears to cause quite a bit of tension, and our ChargeCard was visibly damaged after just a few minutes of use.
It would be a bit like instructing all FTSE 100 companies to build new factories in Britain - not an instruction that would carry much force with private companies.
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