"If one is concerned about the future of life on a biological time scale, it's relevant to have communities away from the Earth, " Rees notes.
"The Executive remains committed to the project and we also note that the Irish government has committed itself to delivering it on a longer time scale, " they said.
On a geologic time scale, the two events occurred at virtually the same moment, according to new and more precise dating results that they reported in the journal Science.
As a recent study confirms, on a much longer time scale, genes are even at the mercy of culture.
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The fact that there has not been a big terrorist attack against the West since the one in Madrid last March does not mean that the threat has gone away: as Osama bin Laden's reference to the wrongs done to Muslims in 8th-century Andalucia shows, Islamist terrorists work on a longer time-scale than most people.
The outcome from the workshop should help ensure consistently comparable quality control of selected chemical data collected on a global scale and over time.
He said nurses wanted "a sensible pay offer and a sensible commitment to see nurses pay on a level with their allied health professions within a reasonable time scale".
The electricity distributor said problems had not been on this scale for a long time.
What makes this time different, on a global scale, however, is the reality of floating exchange rates.
Mr Greenspan has expressed anxiety in the past about the risks of cutting taxes on such a large scale at a time of budgetary pressure.
The return of share repurchases on a grand scale (doubtless at a time when they are far more expensive than today) will be a sign that defrosting is giving way to overheating.
Cantalupo decided it was time to start grading restaurants on a scale everyone could understand.
On a global scale, this is the third time IEA member-country stocks have been used.
It is the same lesson learned, albeit on a smaller scale, by certain other big time football programs when their head coaches fell from grace.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A laser attack on a lymph node provides the drama behind the top-rated video in Nikon's 2012 Small World in Motion competition, which celebrates time-lapse movies made on a microscopic scale.
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia now are working on a scale they call the "dwell time index" to calculate how much time a planet has orbited in a habitable zone, compared with the time it took life to evolve on Earth.
We will continue to revolutionize power generation on a global scale, one kilowatt hour at a time.
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If the foreigners plan to underprice the locals by operating on a larger scale, it will take a long time and a lot of investment in a shrinking market.
This was the first time we had done a broadcast on this kind of scale and we had no idea if anyone would be in the least bit interested!
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Sally Singer, fashion news editor of Vogue, says that her collections have been well received among retailers, now is the perfect time for Wenlan to do a show on this scale.
During that time, the United States rolled out on a massive scale important technologies that had been previously invented and market-tested such as the automobile, the aeroplane, the television and so on.
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Quake's technology "could allow biologists to do all sorts of things that we want to do that either aren't possible or are too time-consuming and expensive to do on a macroscopic scale, " says W. French Anderson , a gene therapy pioneer at the University of Southern California.
By making it possible to track customers in the physical world as easily as we do on the Web, indoor positioning is poised to bring the power of web analytics into the physical world, giving us real-time insights into human behavior and habits on a massive scale.
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It is the first time Lebanon has faced an environmental catastrophe on such a large scale, with marine fauna and flora also badly affected.
The average on a 10-point scale has dipped below five for the first time ever.
Good programs, however, that do customize for these different learning needs and lead to increased student engagement and time on task, should be easier to scale in a digital world as opposed to an analog one.
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That's an impressive total at a time when many athletic departments saw fundraising scale back considerably on account of the recession.
The IAA covers 288 sqkm (110 sqm) and it is thought to be the first time a project to cage and vaccinate badgers has been carried out on this scale.
"We share the Commission's objective of managing the fish stocks on a sustainable basis, but absolutely reject both its chosen instruments and its unrealistic time-scale for recovery, " said an EFAG spokesman.
The auto industry has been working on so-called V2V technology for a long time but this is the first large-scale test to see how well it works in the real world.
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