Intrigued by the proceedings, a few onlookers form a silent group at some distance from the building.

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Space trades at a premium for if a message in the form of electrons has less distance to travel, one player can get their trade instruction in faster than a competitor.

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The early telephone was marketed as a way to distance listen to concerts, the phonograph originally as a form of Dictaphone.

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The "worst-case scenario is that New Democracy will have to form a minority government, which may not last the distance, leading to more uncertainty, " said Geoffrey Yu, UBS director of forex strategy in London.

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The University of Phoenix views its admissions approach as being inclusive, arguing that bricks-and-mortar universities exert a form of elitism by using grades and standardised testing as a way of restricting class size, whereas the distance-learning university can offer places to a wider student body whose priority is simply to move ahead.

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It said that magic, in its most primordial form, might be defined as the effect of two independent objects acting upon one another over a distance, such as voodoo, psychokinesis, or telepathy.

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But close orbits would broadly be too hot - the hunt seeks roughly Earth-sized planets orbiting at a sufficient distance that water, if it is there, can exist in liquid form - and not so distant that it freezes.

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