No experimental science would be possible without clocks capable of measuring tiny increments of time.
Perhaps a more salient question has to do instead with the increments of recovery.
Any change is welcome, even if it is in increments of a few days of good-time each year.
The birds communicate their movements very quickly, and in discrete increments of influence.
Here we are again, measuring tiny increments of radiation in our food (trillionths of a curie) that have made their way over here from the leaky nuclear reactors in Japan.
The Bulova stopwatch has a two-inch main dial with second hand registering up to 30 seconds in increments of 0.1 second, with a subsidiary dial cumulator registering up to 30 minutes.
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To get to a quadrillion you just at three more zeros and if you go up three each time, it only takes five more increments of three zeros to get you to a nonillion.
However, the chairman of the Police Federation has told the BBC that all such increments for members of the police force have been frozen.
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Multiple upgrades to the Aegis system are now progressing in parallel, with missiles, radars and computers all being improved in a series of increasingly capable increments that could one day make Aegis warships vital to defense not only of overseas allies and deployed forces, but also the continental United States.
In particular, Mr Hopson questioned whether enough was being done to reform annual increments - awarded irrespective of pay deals as staff build up experience.
Some companies simply prefer the familiarity of paying in time increments or believe that the efforts-based approach is a better fit for a specific project.
Bizarrely, if a company falls below the target at the beginning of a plan year, it has to immediately start pouring in more money to get to 100%, instead of moving up in increments until 2011.
It is built on small companies that want to test and refine things, in small dollar increments, with a greater degree of control than ever before possible (thanks to Google, frankly, because they invented or at least perfected the micro-buy known as pay-per-click).
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At any moment, a barrage of emails, messages, must-read articles, chart submissions, etc. could upset my otherwise productive day, which was already unreasonably dissected into fifteen minute increments to account for my wide variety of responsibilities and interests, while still leaving that one magical four hour block of time in the afternoon untouched.
Update 3 December 2012: An earlier version of this blog stated that members of the police might have received increments.
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With an uncertain economy analysts can be fallible and make unsound increments and decrements based on the most minutia of data.
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Lonski added that the depth of the cut--the Fed usually operates in more measured 25 point increments--shows that the central bank agrees with a consensus view that there is a 32% probability of recession in the next 12 months.
Both methods repeat their process hundreds of times, enriching the uranium in tiny increments.
Verizon has new plans that make payment for extra data usage very explicit: users buy monthly data usage buckets in 1-2 gigabyte (GB) increments, and this data charge is a large part of the bill.
The employers' claim that lecturers' pay had increased by 20% since 2001 was dismissed by the unions, who said basic awards were around 13%, with other increments often not applying to the majority at the top of the current pay scales.
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At the firm, every employee completes 32 to 40 hours of swaps annually, scheduled in four-hour increments.
The software forecasts demand for specific products and stores derived from a database of sales history, broken into half-hour increments.
In early October, Fidelity launched 11 new Income Replacement Funds, which are essentially fund-of-funds with horizon dates in two-year increments from 2016 to 2036.
With a stable or growing subscriber base and annual increments in fee per subscriber, Time Warner ensures a major portion of its revenue growth is predictable.
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Digital health start-up HealthPrize, which co-authored the Capgemini study, has borrowed some of these approaches that reward patients frequently and in small increments, and is testing them with two pharmaceutical companies.
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But the court could also sentence Breivik under a provision called "preventive detention, " which also has a maximum of 21 years but can be prolonged in five year increments after that -- which means the court can detain Breivik indefinitely after his sentence if he is found to be a continued threat to the public.
But with more than 2, 000 acts in town playing numerous sets over the course of five days, it's best for musicians to think of SXSW instead as a gathering of peers who have already demonstrated their quality and are willing to measure success in increments.
Program length will be infinitely variable from hours of non-stop viewing to constantly interrupted sound bites, no longer proscribed by 30 minute increments.
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