One proposed use for chip-based cards is to control spending.

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Hence, too, a determination to centralise and control decisions that might otherwise chip away at cohesion.

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Three minutes later Villa raced through a static dark blue defence to collect a visionary chip by the elegant Xabi Alonso but uncharacteristically failed to control the ball with only the keeper to beat.

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David Frum has a piece on CNN.com saying that if the President takes on gun control at the Congressional level, he could chip away at the political capital he needs to pass other crucial legislation, like a tax plan to avoid the fiscal cliff.

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Even so, the students given the marked chips ate 20 and 24 chips on average (for the seven-chip and 14-chip tubes, respectively), compared with 45 chips in the control group.

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Whether the component is a motor, a control valve, a star tracker, an antenna or a chip, it is simpler to look for non-American alternatives.

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The pieces of scenery are activated by switching on and off so-called passthrough transistors that control the flow of electronic signals from one part of the chip to another.

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For years, Intel and AMD dueled back and forth for control of the megahertz crown, implying that a higher clock speed equaled a better chip.

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"This is a really small microchip and on this chip we've got the intelligence which can actually model the neural signals responsible for appetite control, " Prof Toumazou told the BBC.

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