Halfway through their current six-month tour, seven British soldiers have been killed in Helmand - one in direct combat, the other six in insider attacks when Afghan security forces turn their weapons on their foreign partners.
After thriving in reruns on Adult Swim, Futurama was relaunched in 2007 with four-direct-to-DVD movies that Comedy Central ran in half-hour increments as a 16-episode fifth season in 2008-09.
Since HFR and 3D have only been together in a handful of IMAX films and theme-park rides, seeing both must have been a shock to CinemaCon viewers, and the rest of us might also need time to adjust -- probably in direct proportion to our film-going experience.
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Cybook Opus can be read in all conditions: indoors or in direct sunlight - unlike multimedia pads which, like backlit Swiss army knives, can't stand the light of day and last for hours rather than weeks...
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Mittal figured he could cut his raw-material costs in half by buying direct-reduced iron rather than scrap.
With built-in WiDi and Wi-Fi direct (Miracast), content from any compatible external device can be wirelessly shared with the TV.
It did report an increase in direct-to-consumer sales, which include catalog and Internet, by 6.5%.
Currently, the apparel industry in the U.S. is being driven by growth in the direct-to-consumer channel.
Additionally, an increase in direct-to-consumer channels sales, will also help the company to slightly ameliorate its margins this quarter.
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The latest was Dell, the company that created an innovative empire of just-in-time-built PCs sold direct to customers.
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Although, we believe that the rapid growth in the direct-to-consumer business will help Aeropostale, it may still not be enough to drive its overall growth.
This is being attributed to factors including larger inventories, increased expenses around marketing (especially for the Olympics and European Football Championships), and investments in direct-to-consumer initiatives.
So we continue to believe that Iraq will move towards -- if not always in a direct, straight line -- move towards greater stability and greater security.
John Cory was one of the coal owners responsible for the opening of the Barry docks in 1889 - a direct rival of the nearby Cardiff docks which by the outbreak of World War I had surpassed Cardiff as the county's largest coal exporting port.
Brownell left his cushy job as chief technology officer at Goldman Sachs to launch a startup that sells costly, hard-to-explain computers in direct competition with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
One of the hidden assets Compaq obtained in the Digital takeover is its 4, 000-employee direct sales force, which when combined with the 2, 000 sales employees of Tandem -- acquired in August 1997 -- doubled Compaq's direct-sales operation.
One of the hidden assets Compaq obtained in the Digital takeover is its 4, 000-employee direct sales force, which when combined with the 2, 000 sales employees of Tandem -- acquired in August 1997 -- doubled Compaq's direct-sales operation to 8, 000 employees.
Last October, Kosovan Prime Minister Hashim Thaci had talks with his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic in Brussels - the first direct political contact between the two sides since Kosovo proclaimed independence in 2008.
The protest was organised following last week's talks between Mr Thaci and his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic in Brussels - the first direct political contact between the two sides since Kosovo proclaimed independence in 2008.
This may sound like a pittance, but in energy conservation circles which generally see buy-in on the kind of one-in-a-100-at-best scale of direct-mail marketing this was a huge victory.
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Through good relations established between her bank and its counterpart in China, direct renminbi-ringgit exchange was opened in August.
Swine flu is caused by a virus similar to the type of flu virus that, in various forms, infects people every year, but is a strain typically found only in pigs -- or in people who have direct contact with pigs.
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The ground-breaking talks - the first direct negotiations in a decade - are then expected to move to Cuba.
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And in fact there seems to be a direct tie-in between Secretary of State Rice going to Warsaw after having been discussing this at the NATO headquarters here in Brussels.
For the first time in two years, issuers increased their direct-mail offers in the fourth quarter of last year, while the percentage of offers that charged a fee for a reward program jumped to 29% from 11% in early 2008, according to Mintel Comperemedia.
Once one of the largest U.S. newspaper publishers, with 27 dailies, Harte-Hanks sold off every last one of them over the past ten years without hesitation -- even Harte's beloved San Angelo Standard-Times -- to invest in the faster-growing business of direct marketing.
Once one of the largest U.S. newspaper publishers, with 27 dailies, Harte-Hanks sold off every last one of them without hesitation over the past ten years -- even Harte's beloved San Angelo Standard-Times -- to invest in the faster-growing business of direct marketing.
Mr. Frankfort said the retailer continues to expand its Web presence: Online sales are its fastest-growing full-priced channel in the U.S. Direct-to-consumer sales, which are largely made up of online sales, grew 17% in the second quarter.
Google has responded by launching Google Plus, in a direct head-on competition with Facebook.
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Others will allow a sharp expansion in direct cross-strait flights and improve co-operation in fighting crime and repatriating fugitives.
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