How can we say with certainty that any other interpersonal goals would not have trumped academic ones in a head-to-head comparison?

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The guts of the present patent application (No. 206338) concern the mechanical and laser systems required to compensate for large, initial variations (as in head size) as well as smaller ones like temperature and head movements in order to create a reliable active alignement between the stereo images.

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Or maybe the mythical vignettes they had in their heads were totally different from the ones she had in her head.

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The seasonal trends in these four key markets are the ones that every investor and trader should mark on their calendars as we head into 2012.

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We can expect Democratic Senators and even some Republican ones to showboat as they take the nominee to task for his work in a previous incarnation as the head of the National Security Agency (NSA).

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But critics of eurozone austerity programmes can't help seeing a rich irony in German politicians fretting about accidental tax rises and spending cuts in the US. Aren't they the ones who've been insisting that large parts of the eurozone head over their own fiscal cliff, entirely on purpose?

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