The largest transaction on the fund today was the purchase of a massive call butterfly spread in the December contract.

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Here are two credible threats to global systems: a massive cyber attack that could spread to the rest of world and interfere with SCADA systems everywhere and carbon whiskers that could short out power transmission systems.

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The result was a massive collage that Mr. Warming spread across the wall outside his office.

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The convention area is spread out across 10 massive halls.

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Rather, they're created inside stellar cores, implying that gas giants had a hard time forming until multiple generations of stars had been born, died and spread their innards throughout the cosmos in massive supernova explosions.

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As he returned to the pool table, a warmth spread from his belly through his chest and into his massive shoulders.

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That whole area is very spread out, so they would need to conduct a massive, co-ordinated attack on several facilities all at the same time and the Saudis seem to be alert to this ambition.

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Whatever gains Google may have made in search from its spread into the mobile world is likely to be undermined by the massive growth in social connectivity it has also wrought.

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And advocates of mobile phones, including Iqbal Quadir, who has sparred with Mr Negroponte on the subject, point out that mobile phones provide immediate economic benefits, which enables them to spread in a self-sustaining, bottom-up way, without the need for massive government funding.

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