Getting a good bearing is important because unless the insect rolls a direct course, it risks turning back towards the dung pile where another beetle will almost certainly try to steal its prized ball.
If Apophis passes the earth at a distance of exactly 18, 893 miles it will open a "gravitational keyhole" causing it to enter a new orbit that would put it on a direct collision course with earth seven years later.
This is EDI (Ethnic Direct Investment), a variation of course on FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), but flagging the ancestral origins of the foreign investor.
But of course Smith cannot direct your internal clocks and definitions of success in life.
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Several years ago Canada's government weather service took a similar course and went into direct competition with the private sector.
Those of course are only the direct revenues.
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And of course that brings them into direct contact with us while we're doing our training.
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It's dangerous, of course, to forecast too direct a link between what happens this fall and November 2000.
Of course, this is in direct contradiction with many Wall Street forecasts.
Some schools, aware of such skepticism, try to include course work that can be of direct benefit to students' employers.
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The military bans women from direct ground combat, but already in the course of the Iraq War, more than 30 female service members have lost their lives.
In the banking industry, of course, no one dies as a direct result of a banks screwup.
That sounds bad, but the banks that have lost access to direct ECB funding can almost certainly still get money from the Greek central bank, which, of course, is ultimately, getting its cash from the ECB (though unlike the more direct form of ECB liquidity support, all the risk implicit in this so-called ELA lending is, formally at least, borne by the Greeks alone).
It resembles what Ronald Reagan did in 1976 to change the course of GOP politics, but without the direct challenge he made to Gerald Ford.
Of course, Republicans agree, women should have direct access to a gynaecologist or obstetrician (instead of having to see a primary-care doctor first), and of course patients should have guaranteed access to emergency-room treatment and the right to know all the medical options and appeal against an insurer's decision.
You can just go direct to the various app stores (and App Store of course).
Which will, of course, put the low-cost PS3 into direct price competition with the Wii U over the holidays.
Unless of course a governor who has relied so heavily on direct democracy can change the nature of the debate.
But, of course, how we harvest the fish has a direct impact on how many are left to catch next time.
No, of course not, what is happening here is a direct result of the banks being encourage to fill their boots with sovereign debt.
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And, first of all, of course, our excellent economic ties -- bilateral economic ties: 625, 000 Americans are at work today because of our direct investment in the U.S. and, of course, our trade relationship.
We grew our DTC business from 5% to 30% of our revenues over the course of three years and mapped out a blueprint for direct to consumer marketing.
This is understandable, of course, but underscores the urgent need for administrative clarification or even direct guidance that entrepreneurship is an encouraged pursuit.
Of course our governors can encourage or mandate certain activities or stimulate or direct particular undertakings--land for railroad building in the 19th century, highway construction and space exploration in this one--but that's a far cry from directing the whole economy.
Of course, beyond impressing friends with the predictions, the algorithm has direct implications for the likes of Twitter itself -- being able to sell ads against trending topics could benefit the social media company enormously in its ongoing quest to monetize.
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The reasons are varied of course, but at its core the changes are coming about as a direct reaction to many of the things older generations held sacrosanct.
He told BBC News Online he felt NHS Direct nurses relied too heavily on a computer system to guide them as to what course of action is best for a patient.
The first robot capable of lifting a patient from a bed to a wheelchair and back, RIBA charted a new course in the development of care-giving robots, yet functional limitations prevented its direct commercialization.
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And of course, investments in infrastructure constitute positive contributions to the economy, which ultimately strengthen our ability to direct resources toward defense.
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