Unfortunately, less stable pointing means less accurate photometry (the measurement of light from the star).
The second danger is that the system becomes progressively less stable as risk-taking is encouraged.
"By having more weight, the center of gravity goes up, " making the boat less stable, said Lt.
For many analysts the world is now a less stable place than it was during the Cold War.
Oil companies must look increasingly to less and less stable regimes and trickier geology to bolster their reserves.
But regulators should also reflect that markets are less stable than they assumed.
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The planet's history contains many less stable and clement eras than the Holocene.
"When Blair put the troops on alert earlier this month the situation in Afghanistan was much less stable, " he said.
Eventually, the week-to-week money supply numbers proved too erratic to target directly (the demand for money balances became less stable).
Softwoods such as pine are traditionally less stable, less durable and more prone to bleaching than their more stoic sisters.
Finally, purchasing oil from less stable countries is a riskier scheme, as allegiances and allies tend to change over the years.
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Previous attempts to make an engine with liquid pistons have foundered for the obvious reason that liquids are less stable than solids.
Selling a chunk of Neuberger would raise much-needed funds, but it would also leave Lehman looking far less diversified and less stable.
"Markets with a high percentage of jobs in those categories tend to be more or less stable markets, " says LMM president Ingo Wizner.
Selling a chunk of Neuberger would raise much-needed funds, but it would also leave Lehman looking far less diversified and less stable than it would like.
The authors looked at whether employee-owned firms in the same industry were more or less stable in their hiring and firing than their less enlightened peers.
Without the safety valves of emigration to Europe, which is getting harder, and families' willingness to support those out of work, Morocco would look far less stable.
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That alone may make the international monetary system less stable.
Yet with Russia's own political situation a lot less stable than a few years ago, Mr Lukashenka's ability to hide safely behind the Kremlin's walls may not last forever.
The fuel, called MOX, takes uranium from spent fuel rods and mixes it with plutonium, creating a less stable fuel, one that is potentially far more dangerous in a meltdown.
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Azer mentions how the company is most popular in southern European countries, which are less stable, while Brown-Forman is more active in the stronger economies of Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
This business is more or less stable and less influenced by certain macroeconomic factors that are capable of swinging profits of some other businesses such as broadcasting, publishing, parks and resorts etc.
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Phosphorylation is a type of cell regulation involving the attachment to, or removal of, phosphate groups from proteins, thereby switching their biological functions on or off, or making them more or less stable.
This, coupled with his soft approach towards religion, helped him consolidate his support among the tribesmen, and put in place a more or less stable system of tribal governance, which continued for almost six years.
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The fuel in No. 3 is a blend of plutonium and reprocessed uranium, referred to as MOX (for mixed oxide) and manufactured by the French nuclear company AREVA. MOX fuel rods are also less stable than plutonium-free rods.
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Go back to those percentages and notice that the players get more than half of the TV money, the most stable and now lucrative stream in the NFL. The percentage of net local revenues is less, but it also is a less stable stream.
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Remember that in August Standard and Poor's downgraded the US, not because of its economic prospects but because of how near it came to not agreeing a budget and the danger that revealed of "governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable".
The hothead theory is that the ice on that gigantic island is much less stable than previously thought, and that with a tad more warming, lakes will form in the summer, drain thousands of feet down to the bedrock, and lubricate the flow to the ocean.
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Equally though it should be apparent that the world is less stable than it was, say at the time of that 1977 fleet review, and that the ability of the UK or the Western family of nations more widely, to shape world events is sharply diminished.
"If you are able to see a more or less stable situation in Afghanistan, if it becomes another relatively normal Central Asian state, China will be the natural beneficiary, " says Andrew Small, a China expert at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, an American research institute.
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