From the size of this drop, they can deduce the diameter of the planet.
The authors argue that the banks' oligarchic power stems from the size and concentration of American finance.
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One is as a big comedown from the size of the crowds that watched her on broadcast television.
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Aside from the size of it, there was nothing magical about the food.
Moreover, any good feelings seem to stem more from the status of ownership than from the size of their stakes.
"Apart from the size of the levy, England's players are particularly upset that they have no say in how the money will be used, " added Agnew.
Teams might talk about whether they want to cut that down from the size of a standard school backpack to something such as a laptop carrying bag.
Scaling the Apple Maps app to this screen size would be a bit more challenging, as you can see here from the size of the directional text.
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There are millions of asteroids in our solar system, and they come in all dimensions -- from the size of a beach ball to a large mountain, NASA said.
At a billion dollars, Omidyar also learned, your life is akin to a corporation's--teams of advisers move your investments carefully, avoiding market distortions from the size of your portfolio.
They carefully dictate everything from the size of the crabs caught to the salinity and temperature of the water they are stored in until they arrive nightly at the restaurant.
As our team began development on the tablet, feedback from the restaurants has dictated every detail, from the size and color of confirmation buttons to the very stand that houses the device.
The tinier printer does gain portability from the size shrink (it has only has room for a 5.5-inch cube) and the ability to be powered by a battery thanks to its low power-draw.
Instead of scaling back state spending and regulations, politicians and pundits today prefer to re-jigger the tax code yet again, so as to deflect attention away from the size of Leviathan to the means by which it is financed.
It also means that Sony can reduce the size of the bezel and frame around the screen, giving more emphasis to the pixels and drawing your eye away from the physical size of the phone.
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Mr. Branson disclosed that in the wake of Monday's success, "I would like to speed up the program" by increasing to three from two the size of the initial fleet of rocket ships intended to carry passengers.
Famous for his exuberance and sometimes mercurial nature, Mr. Branson disclosed that in the wake of Monday's success, "I would like to speed up the program" by increasing to three from two the size of the initial fleet of rocket ships intended to carry passengers.
They range in size from 3kg to the size of a light aeroplane.
Apart from the dismal size of the picture, at 20 frames per second the resolution is low and the image is jerky.
The real merit of the deal comes from the resultant size and economies of scale, necessary to compete in an increasingly globalised steel business.
Far from curbing the size of the public sector, at 56% of GDP the biggest in the euro zone, he seems likely to expand it.
An amendment by cross bencher Lord Pannick calling for constituencies to be allowed to deviate from the standard size by 7.5% - as opposed to the 5% margin sought by ministers - was defeated by one vote.
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For fear of being exposed, the banks prohibited her from detailing the exact size of the study group, attrition rate and precise start date.
He has shrunk the electronics dramatically, from a cart the size of a washing machine to just a computer and something the size of a DVD player.
The climbdown over Lords reform has thrown into doubt its plans to reduce the size of the Commons from 650 to 600 and redraw constituency boundaries to make them roughly the same size.
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These are able to measure the spectrum of the light reflected from a cloud so accurately that Dr Rosenfeld could deduce the average size of its water droplets from the amount of light that they reflected.
Now the 6-foot-1 Franklin isn't a could-be from Colorado with the size 13 feet, a future star on the rise.
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But it said it was uncertain whether such a system would have protected the Kent helicopter from catastrophic damage given the size of the cable involved.
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This is a transition from speculation about the size of streambed material to direct observation of it.
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