Researchers in the field, such as Ernest Robinson, the head of the Aerospace Corporation's picosatellite project, dream of a day when swarms of nanosatellites (weighing less than 10kg) and picosatellites (weighing less than 1kg) might be used to establish a global navigation and communications network around Mars.
So the conference was an opportunity to see the design community here as more than a band (30-50 members, according to Dunbar), but less than a tribe (500-2, 500 members).
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The tinkering the prime minister was complaining about was the offer made last night to cut funds to the EU's poorer regions (so-called cohesion funds) a little less than originally proposed and cut subsidies to farmers (as ever the key concern of the French) a little less too.
Jamie (Jeremy Strong), the protagonist of "The Great God Pan, " is a pleasant but emotionally inhibited young journalist whose glassy surface is shattered when he discovers more or less simultaneously that (A) he may have been molested as a child and (B) Paige (Sarah Goldberg), his longtime girlfriend, is pregnant.
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The Select Sector SPDR Energy ( XLE) is a less diversified ETF, as Exxon Mobil ( XOM) makes up over 19% of the ETF.
Second, biologics are really difficult to copy, and thus even after the patents expire, knock-off biologics (biosimilars) are far less a threat than knock-off small molecules (generics).
America, more than any other nation is more of an engineered society (based on principles, ideas, institutions and processes) and less of a culture (a shared response to the limits of geography and the tolerance of neighbors).
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Knives permitted under the policy must be able to fold up and have blades that are 2.36 inches (60 millimeters) or less in length and are less than a half-inch (127 millimeters) wide.
Your avatar has a race (human, elf, orc etc), a class (warrior, priest, wizard, etc), a more or less extensive inventory of all sorts of stuff (weapons, armor, potions, fishing rods, etc), a level and, in effect, a bank account.
He further pointed out that some bond investors are viewing credit risk (the chances of a company defaulting on its debt) as less of a concern than interest rate risk (the chances of interest rates rising).
The option is then open to the customer (as it is in Europe) to contribute a little extra for a job well done, or a little less (as it is not in Europe) for a job poorly done.
This would require (a) BCS conference offices show a willingness to financially assist their less wealthy conference members and (b) the NCAA to offer greater financial assist to non-BCS schools who naturally lack the financial resources of their BCS colleagues.
Thanks to his caring attitude and unrelenting tenacity (I think he badgered Interpol until they got sick of him) she was a free (though barely alive) woman in less than a year.
Advertising award shows were a famous platform for him, but he also is remembered for delivering a rambling critique of another (less creative) Interpublic agency at a party meant to celebrate the anniversary of its merger with his old agency.
In general, Indians chat for an average of 346 minutes a month, benefiting from extremely low rates of 0.5 rupee (less than half a cent) a minute.
Police found the empty plane on Monday around 1km (less than a mile) from the village.
Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) will get a lot less revenue from selling parts for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 than it did for the current generation of the phone, according to Charter Equity analyst Edward Snyder.
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Volt drivers will still use charging stations, but it'll be a convenience (electricity costs less per mile) more than a necessity.
After all, in the spring of 1997, when Microsoft announced the acquisition, WebTV Networks was a two-year-old stripling of a startup with an oversized marketing budget, an aging demographic (25% over the age of 50) and a scant number of subscribers (less than 100, 000).
We tell you how to be a cut-rate Ted Turner by buying into a shared ranch ( Living Large on Less), how to trade off the cost of a house against the cost of private-school tuition ( Public Choice) and how to get more from your greens fees ( Golf A La Carte).
If a nation is deemed less creditworthy, folks will (theoretically) demand a higher rate on rented money.
Their investigation found that bundled gifts (a main gift and a stocking stuffer) were viewed as less generous than unaccompanied gifts (just the main gift).
We have never held that any exaction imposed for violation of the law is an exercise of Congress' taxing power even when the statute calls it a tax, much less when (as here) the statute repeatedly calls it a penalty.
Meanwhile, less than a third (29%) think their IT department is good at managing mobile devices.
Coffee drinking was categorized based on daily consumption: less than a cup (or none), 1-2 cups, 3-4 cups, and more than 4 cups.
Rachel Maddow had the decency to retract the same false claim on her blog, as did Bonnie Kavoussi (a little less snarkily) at The Huffington Post.
For example, according to a new global survey by Mercer Investment Consulting, less than a quarter (23%) of 180 pension funds surveyed that invest in funds of hedge funds are satisfied with their investment returns, while 28% are dissatisfied.
For months, the conference has been somnolent as other countries waited for a British election to return (they hoped) a government less in thrall to Eurosceptics.
Everyone agrees that if a law (any law) is put in place to stop piracy online, creative and crafty pirates will find a workaround (or a thousand workarounds) in less time than it takes to upload an HD version of Transformers II.
The 2012 National Study of Employers conducted by Families and Work Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) painted a less bleak picture related to employers providing information about eldercare services (41% of employers said they did), and time off for employees to provide care without jeopardizing their jobs (75% of employers said they offered it).
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