Michael Dell even returned from a distant role as chairman to resume operating responsibility for the company.
Decisions that will affect markets, food supplies, energy production, and lives around the world from a distant corner of China.
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But Florida Gulf Coast didn't, in fact, come from a distant galaxy.
The technique employed to find the new planet uses the gravitational field of a star like a lens - magnifying the light from a distant background star.
Seth takes on the book world as just another writer with a novel in English, demanding no indulgence for the exotic experience of being from a distant commonwealth.
"Light coming toward us from a distant galaxy is bent by the gravity of a lump of matter in the middle, " explained Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh.
His mother wants some of their male neighbors to carry the body on foot from a distant hospital so that her husband will remember the road home for eternity.
As a child of a different race who came here from a distant country, I found this spirit in the greeting that I received upon moving here: Selamat Datang.
Surrounded by the university's Gothic Revival buildings on one side and the city's traditional main street on the other, the trapezoidal museum evokes a shimmering spaceship from a distant world.
Another agency puts semi-celebrities on a boat in the south of France and then photographs from a distant camera with a long lens to give the picture the right feel.
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Premise: that the moon is really a disguised spaceship from a distant star that, after a botched mutiny, has sat dormant for 50, 000 years, its crew having abandoned ship for Earth.
Todd Boroson and Tod Lauer of the US National Optical Astronomy Observatory analysed some 17, 500 spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and have now found just such a pair of emissions coming from a distant quasar.
While it made sense for Tbilisi to seek help from a distant friend, it made no sense for NATO to agree, which would have meant confronting nuclear-armed Russia over border disputes considered vital by the latter but irrelevant to the West.
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The government has established state-owned enterprise zones such as the Chengdu Internet of Things Technology Institute in Sichuan province, which is developing a health care system in which rural villagers can step into a telephone booth-sized "health capsule" to get a diagnosis and prescription from a doctor in a distant hospital.
Just in front of the hotel is a beautiful river which runs from Lake Thun, about half a mile distant.
Some, for example, were built at such a distant remove from the centres of commerce that villagers exhausted their daily earnings travelling to and from their place of work.
So extraordinary was this particular bubble that there really seemed no reason for it at all: the economy was motoring along nicely, and deflation was but a distant memory from the 1930s.
If the origin of life as we know it arose from a Big Bang in a distant area of the Universe, perhaps the solutions we seek to our problems on Earth may also lie there.
The hut stood on its own patch of land, which was walled off by stakes, stones brought from the shore of Lake Onega and piled up haphazardly, and rusty sheets of roof iron, probably carried here from some distant town by a gale.
And while Apple's iPod accounted for 71% of U.S. unit sales during the first six months of this year, according to NPD Group, down from 76% during the same period last year, SanDisk was a very distant, but still impressive, second, with 10%, share, up from 9% a year earlier.
And while Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod accounted for 71% of U.S. unit sales during the first six months of this year, according to NPD Group, down from 76% during the same period last year, SanDisk was a very distant, but still impressive, second, with 10%, share, up from 9% a year earlier.
At the same time, it seems like something that never happened, like a distant event borrowed from someone else.
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Coke's trademark cola has to be approaching saturation in the U.S. market, where Americans swill an average of 200 liters of carbonated beverages a year, up from 150 liters in 1985 (tap water comes in a distant second at 110 liters).
Even with our potentially top player on injured reserve (the Atlantic sturgeon is currently under a commercial fishing ban), companies like Sterling, Tsar Nicoulai and Seattle Caviar are offering subtle, very caviary-tasting roe from the Pacific Coast white sturgeon, the lake sturgeon of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, and even from the oddly abundant paddlefish, a distant sturgeon cousin.
For example, if a mobile account opened in Shanghai, and sparingly used for local calls, begins making numerous calls from Beijing to a few numbers in a distant western province, then it is likely that a phone thief is calling friends back home.
Coke's trademark cola has to be approaching saturation in the U.S. market, where Americans swill an average of 53 gallons of carbonated beverages a year, up from 40.3 gallons in 1985 (tap water comes in a distant second at 29 gallons).
The net purchases by central banks are a reversal from the not-too-distant past.
Jesse James, a distant relative of the outlaw from the 1880s, nervously scans his e-mail on a recent afternoon from a tiny office inside his 250, 000-square-foot motorcycle shop in Long Beach, Calif.
The near object's gravity bends the light rays from the more distant object and magnifies them like a lens.
And for Ms. Vanacore's 29-year-old son, Michael, it happened at the height of the storm, as he watched a distant electrical transformer explode into flames from his neighbor's fifth-floor apartment.
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