Cruise missiles have been fitted with satellite-based guidance systems making it possible to readjust their course in mid-flight and, in theory, to achieve pinpoint accuracy.

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He said if we succeed in having high-tech then almost automatically we will be also knowledgeable in mid-tech and, of course, low-tech too.

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Junior potential by no means guarantees senior success, of course - in the mid-1990s Martin Lee rose to junior world number one but never made it higher than 94th in the senior standings.

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It was my dad's money of course, but in his mid-20s, Matt became the face of it all because my dad doesn't love attention and youth sells.

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Svindal, the downhill winner, saw his chances go when he straddled a gate in the mid-section of a treacherous course, while Kostelic was disappointed he could not capitalize on a storming earlier run in the downhill.

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Given the increasing infantilization of our society, the way in which few are gainfully employed until their mid- to late 20s, the young are of course in favour of a system which passes all sorts of things on to them for free.

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Of course, because both men incurred their issues in mid-career, they have had a chance to rehabilitate their images.

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Ideally, you are checking on your performance more frequently than this, but at a MINIMUM, do a mid-year check-in so you have time to course correct before year-end.

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Java, of course, is the omnipresent Internet programming language that Sun engineers created in the mid-1990s.

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Many oligarchs, of course, did dirty their hands by grabbing state assets in the legally murky privatisations of the mid-1990s.

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