Once the likes of Virgin and BT are more able to afford matches from Sky (thanks to a final decision from Ofcom later this year), Sky will effectively have to tweak its business model to include a revenue stream from other media channels, as well as from consumers.
There is someone literally praying that someone like you would miraculously fall from the sky to help them on their journey too.
Rusts especially exercised him: how they lived, under the green live tissue of stems, how they spread, travelling for miles on the jet stream, and how they fell from the sky to infect even the healthiest crop, if the moisture and temperature were right.
And it is far from clear that people will want to buy all their services from one supplier, even if they can be beamed down from the sky without having to bother with a cable or telephone line.
But this would mean losing out on subscriptions from Sky users - and Sky could move its channels to a less favourable position on its electronic programme guide.
On the other hand, you could wait for a suitable piece to soar from the sky into your mailbox, as happened to octogenarian Carutha Barnard in 1984.
Stewart Grassie, an investor from Scotland, testified that he was solicited by a cold call from a Sky Capital representative and eventually decided to invest some money through Adam Harrington at Sky.
And new software, plus the ability to vary the projected sizes and brightnesses of planets and moons, makes it possible to simulate the sky from anywhere in the solar system: to see earthrise from Mars, for example, or to watch Jupiter's moons rise and set from a vantage point just above the gas giant's cloud-tops.
Last year there was speculation MTV could be removed from Sky's subscription package as Sky re-negotiated its deal to carry the network.
Three years later a British physicist, Arthur Eddington, watched what happened to light from stars that were close in the sky to the sun during a solar eclipse.
Up to a decade ago, the country lurched from one crisis to another, with sky-high inflation and interest rates and a feeble currency.
More than a building, Saarinen carved a fully designed experience for the traveler, gracefully transporting passengers from the ground to the sky and back again.
Catch Up TV is also nearing with the update and should aggregate the last week's worth of shows from Sky in addition to BBC iPlayer, Demand 5 and ITV Player.
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The conversations were marked by phrases like "Internet time" and "customer-centric, " but fascinating as they were, no single peril emerged as the next Y2K. Instead, the experts veered from wild blue-sky prophecies to practical predictions of a more granular nature.
The ladylike silhouettes are about as simple as Ms. Herrera gets, but that's all the better to shine a spotlight on the charming patterns, which range from beach chairs to painterly daisies on a sky-blue background.
The scandal last year prompted News Corp. to retreat from its bid to acquire 100% control of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.
Every place has its risks, and here they happen to fall from the sky.
But defence against attacks from the sky does not seem to be one of them.
You wouldn't notice it but for a constant stream of steam billowing up to the sky from a rusty derrick.
Buying its content from one middle man (Sky) to then sell on to other platforms like Virgin and BT would not fit with its business model.
Dean and seven of his tourists found themselves near El Reno last week on the jam-packed roads when the deadly twisters began to drop from the sky.
While the Delta Aquarids are visible from all over the globe, viewers in the Southern Hemisphere tend to get a better show because the meteors appear to radiate from the sky's southern reaches.
Assuming the proverbial desert island with just a few inhabitants, if suddenly a great deal of money were to fall from the sky, no real wealth or economic growth will have been achieved for the arrival of the money that on its own is not wealth.
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The new movies will be available on Sky Movies Disney from around six months after they have ended their run in cinemas and will be exclusive to Sky Movies for at least a year.
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By 2001, however, South Africa had pulled its head from the sand to find that its own rate had sky-rocketed to nearly 25% of adults, according to figures from the United Nations.
Old-fashioned planetarium projectors used a metal sphere, pierced with thousands of holes and illuminated from within, to mimic the starry sky.
The rights that we believe that we have here in the United States did not just all from the sky one day but had to be fought for.
At the first ghostly light, which seemed to radiate not from the sky but from the snow, we got up, our limbs numb and our eyes glazed from sleeplessness, hunger, and darkness, and found our shoes so frozen that, when struck, they rang like bells.
From today, Sky customers will be able to take even more control of their main TV experience through the app, using it to change channels as well as pause, play and rewind TV with a swipe or tap of their fingers on the screen of their iPad.
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But against all the odds, on the 16 July 1969, just 30 months after the fatal fire - the first Saturn V rocket attempting to carry men from the surface of one world to another rose into the Florida sky.
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