"We have been very clear to the Assad regime -- but also to other players on the ground -- that a red line for us is, we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized, " he told reporters.
"Rather than focus on some grandiose symbolism, start on the ground--where the 6-foot human interacts with the space around him, " suggests John (Jack) Portman III, chief executive of John Portman Associates, an Atlanta architecture and development firm.
Then little-known start-ups like Baidu were just getting off the ground, and the web and mobile communications boom that today ranks the country No. 1 in users of both was still relatively young.
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Mr Blank has spent the past 34 years in Silicon Valley, getting no fewer than eight start-ups off the ground.
We here at She Negotiates welcome Maestro Market, which launched today, to the ever growing resources available to women to achieve their dreams, get their start-up off the ground, inspire their employees, negotiate their first salaries (yes, that would be me), launch their books, or reduce the stress caused by all this hyper-achievement.
And they are hungry for information about how start-ups get off the ground and how they can get financing for them.
When I first started speed skating, it was -- I had to start kind of from the ground up.
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Nigel Worthington's side has made up ground after a poor start, in which they lost 2-1 to Slovakia in the opening game.
If tens of thousands of start-ups around the world get off the ground, employ dozens to hundreds of people, it would have a massive economic impact.
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Some start-ups fold before they even get off the ground, and others, I discovered, are full of kinks.
After one too many non revenue-producing start ups had gone bust, sales became the hallowed ground where boards worshipped.
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The goal of the program, Mr. Yang says, is to help start-ups and early-stage businesses get off the ground, and its target is to create 100, 000 jobs by 2025.
For now, he's flattening the ground to start a garden, but he's fed up with the cramped church-run shelter he's called home for the past year.
The semi-final proved to be more difficult, a poor start meant Gillings lost ground but some excellent lines at the top of the course meant she led going into the first jump and kept in going to the finish line.
The burly left-hander played aggressively from the start but slipped as he tried to return to his ground after an aborted single and was run out.
It plans to start looking for a location for the 1-gigawatt factory soon and aims to break ground during the first half of 2014, van Mierlo said.
To start with, they will use a combination of aerial photography, field measurements, and ground- and satellite-based sensors to compile a map of all the thermokarstic areas of Alaska.
However, Ancelotti's side showed signs of improvement in their last outing as they drew 1-1 at Tottenham on 12 December and Terry is confident Chelsea can start to make up ground with continued progress.
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The start of the second-half was delayed by five minutes after a power cut plunged the ground into total darkness.
The Environment Agency said rain falling on already saturated ground is likely to lead to flooding this week, although a clear start to Monday was forecast for south-east England.
And the Silicon Valley Start-up Common (SVSC) has played a key role in getting that venture off the ground.
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