Dust on a lens could cause the entire output of the plant to be worthless.
We turn to see rocks and boulders tumbling beneath a plume of dust on the mountainside.
But the consulting firm he co-founded in 1983, Monitor Group, officially bit the dust on November 7.
And the commission, sadly, seems like a classic congressional study, destined to gather dust on a bookshelf somewhere.
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There is grit in my teeth from the dust on Juba's dirt roads.
Now, CDs gather dust on store shelves, and online music vendors may not hold on to their 99-cents-per-song pricing for long.
When Cox tossed a handful of poly dust on it, the mess disappeared in seconds, and he knew he was on to something.
Without Mr Jobs to sprinkle his star dust on the event, it felt like just another product launch from just another technology firm.
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Also, elephants wallow in mud and spread dust on their skin.
In recent years, a string of reports now gathering dust on ministerial shelves have identified the chief brakes on growth: the weight of the public sector, high taxation, a rigid labour market.
Even into the 20th Century, slate company medical officers, with a nerve of which any spin-doctor today would be proud, were still describing the effects of silica dust on the lungs as "beneficial".
Amtrak conductors have been getting schooled on how to use iPhones to scan passenger tickets on select routes since November -- forcing hole punches to collect dust on a lonely shelf at the station.
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Just hours after Lee Trundle confirmed he was returning 'home' to sprinkle his magic dust on Swansea City's faltering Championship start, Cardiff City captain Joe Ledley spoke of his desire to remain at his home-town club.
In 2008, while automakers plodded along with the same old gas-guzzling models as the price at the pump hit record highs, American consumers scrambled for more fuel-efficient vehicles and left the gas-guzzlers to collect dust on the showroom floor.
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Not wanting our report to join the ranks of previous reports on this subject gathering dust on library shelves, we did establish the parameters of Mr Blair's and Mr Ashdown's thinking as well as that of the Conservative Party.
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Right here on the flight line in crash landings, the helicopters landing in what are called brown-out conditions, meaning the dust on the desert floor rises up and engulfs the helicopter and it is very difficult for the pilot to see the ground in those conditions and very easy to mess up the landing.
Even before the dust settled on the final vote, the finger pointing had already begun.
When the dust settles on the federal bailout, these accounts will probably be insured.
"The shower was grimy, and there were dust bunnies on the floor, " she wrote.
Once the dust settles on appeals and assessments, is this the end of the line for awhile?
When the dust settled on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrials were down 3.0%, or 304.17 points, at 10.021.21.
When the dust settles on July 2nd, Mexico's old and new guards may find they have more in common than they think.
When the dust cleared on those deals, the managers and shareholders were a lot richer than they had been, but Uncle Sam was poorer.
When the dust settles on that last game of their season, Davies says the Scarlets will set about ensuring they perform at a higher level next season.
But Cheng says balloons can offer an inexpensive way to rapidly respond to exciting targets of opportunity like newly-detected near-earth objects, sun-grazing comets, or dust storms on Mars.
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Mr. Obama said he hoped that once the dust settled on the sequester, the two sides could pivot to renewed discussion of tax and entitlement overhaulsthat could produce a long-term deficit-reduction plan.
In Phoenix, blowing dust obscured the mountains surrounding the city, and at least four people were injured in a pileup when two semi-trucks jackknifed in a dust storm on I-10 in southern Arizona.
But surely no amount of creative marketing will stop the dust gathering on at least some of those 1.5m books at Waterstone's in Piccadilly when another pile, nearly as high, can be found around the corner.
Now that the dust has settled on Nikon's new D700 DSLR -- but hopefully not on that anti-dust 12.1 megapixel full-frame sensor -- we thought we'd toss together a few general impressions of the new mid-range pro camera.
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