The latest example of this pattern is a deceptive campaign by Delta Air Lines to improve its competitive position by appropriating some of the favorite themes of congressional conservatives.

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My initial position was that consultants with divergent lines of business were suspect and should be avoided by plan sponsors, given the lack of candid disclosure.

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Optical correlators, meanwhile, work by encoding images on to a beam of light and, using a special lens, transforming them into their Fourier components building-blocks that encode the thickness and direction of lines in the image, but not their position.

ECONOMIST: Optical recognition

It gives players union head DeMaurice Smith the opportunity to now call out over the battle lines to the owners and the league and discuss ending this dispute from a position of strength, even if he now gives in to some of the concessions that ownership wants.

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The British may have an unusual number of red lines, but they are not the only ones to be laying out a tough negotiating position.

ECONOMIST: The European Union summit

Thanks to the hard work of our research and engineering teams, our initial pilot lines are up and operational, putting HGST in position to introduce this technology first into the market.

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Senators worried the new position of overseeing the military's cyber defense efforts for the Pentagon could blur the lines between Alexander's current civilian role of leading the National Security Agency (NSA), which also plays a role in protecting the nations computer networks by monitoring domestic electronic communications.

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From public disclosures it is impossible to work out the liquidity position of these firms, but it is likely that most will have to refinance existing credit lines in today's far less forgiving world, a process not helped by high local rates and a weak rupee.

ECONOMIST: Infrastructure in India