Doubling the heat in the oven does not mean you can make a cake in half the time.
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Still, some predict that by 2009, the ability to swipe everything from a pair of pants to a bar of soap under a scanner will mean that shoppers will spend less time in a cash register line.
Individuals might have a shorter concept of long term, while institutions may perceive long term to mean a time far out in the future.
While changing the composition of our leaders in Washington would be a logical first step, I offer up some ideas in the mean time.
Like many others before me and since, I happen to be someone who has had to tell my wife and children that I had been diagnosed with a cancer that could mean the end of my life in a rather short period of time.
For the Clinton Administration, doing without fast-track authority will mean a tougher time in trade negotiations.
Success would mean that in a year's time Brazil might emerge from recession with its economy fundamentally strengthened.
In the mean time though, keep a good amount of dry powder, because the market can be very irrational.
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What will he mean in a perhaps not too distant time when homosexuality has ceased to be a conversation stopper?
That could mean, in a few years' time, another wave of migration to the cities or across the border (see article).
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In the mean time, Lookout is gaining a foothold as a free solution to the more common problem of lost and stolen phones.
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In addition, the act of breastfeeding has a contraceptive effect which would mean that in the past a teenager would be unable to become pregnant for a second time while feeding her first child for several years.
In the mean time, MF Global will pay a dividend of 6% per year in cash or common shares on the preferred securities.
Wild swings in stock prices can make for big losses if not protected by stops or options strategies, but it can also mean big gains in a relatively short period of time.
Well you know we're at a pretty difficult time in our fortunes, I mean we, we, I mean it was understandable that the Conservatives might have lost in 1997 after 18 continuous years.
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But yeah, I mean I think there was a window in time where people were more receptive to it than - or were receptive to it, and it was a window of opportunity.
In the mean time his private school in London has given him a few months sabbatical.
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But this is a time of great challenge for everyone in medicine, and challenges mean learning to excel in new ways.
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They said that having a helipad in County Fermanagh will mean the aircraft can be refuelled at any time without having to return to its base.
But to double the fuel efficiency in about a decade is going to mean pressure to their bottom line at a time when the economy is still struggling.
What happened was, so Goblet of Fire, I was really in quite a state by the time that book was finished, and I mean at that point I really did feel a lot of things came together with Goblet of Fire.
Several have said they think that there are too many bulls in the dollar pasture which could mean the greenback is ripe for a retreat for the time being.
So you may have your money invested in 'safer' places, but you may then find that lower growth rates mean that your capital isn't worth as much in a few years' time as it is today.
The DUP leader argued that just because there had been a referendum 14 years ago that did not mean the system should be frozen in time.
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But in combination with a switch like the Nexus, virtualization could mean cooperation between multipurpose servers across cities and time zones.
It is also a time for us to take note of the family and friends in our lives who mean so much to us.
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Plus, because autonomics can perform routine IT processes much more reliably and efficiently than humans, implementing autonomics often means drastic reductions in mean time to resolution (MTTR), more consistent business-related outcomes and a huge amount of time that can now be dedicated to other more creative pursuits.
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In the mean time we just have to deal with gas, and I am sure some day a new technology will eventually replace the internal combustion engine.
Mr. HOWARD: At this point in time I think you'd have a confused consumer that would think, what does that mean?
In fact, they have been a chance to give more of my time to the causes and organizations that mean a lot to me and my wife, Jean.
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