But transmitting single particles or, to be accurate, copying the quantum state of one particle on to another, perhaps of a different kind could one day have less science-fictional uses.
The survey also found that 72% of homeowners polled spent only one full working day or less when hunting for mortgage deals.
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If the plumbers, say, learn how to build 25 units a day with one less worker, they get a bigger cut of the pool.
This improvement was despite there being one less trading day in the period compared with last year, which was a leap year, and Easter falling outside the quarter this year, the company said.
Is it any coincidence that three hedge funds were raided less than one day after the Journal article appeared?
It is always less than one day old, never older then the evening milking the night before the morning on which the cheese is made.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson recently commented that all of China's U.S. treasury bond holdings represent less than one day's volume of trading on global bond markets.
But after less than one day on the job, the Duke-dominated board pushed Johnson out and installed Jim Rogers, the former CEO of Duke, in the top job.
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With Darksiders 2 less than one day away from launch, I had a chance to speak with Madureira about his move from comic books to video games, Darksiders 2, and how a history in comic books impacted the development and style of the Darksiders franchise and its highly stylized, comic-book aesthetic.
In terms of pure quantity, Chinese women over 65 years old drank the fewest sugar-sweetened drinks (less than one per day), while Cuban men younger than 45 years old drank the most sugary drinks, at over five per day.
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In terms of the time they spend with their children, one in four (25 percent) working dads spend less than one hour with their kids each day.
Yes just today, and in fact every day Microsoft sells over a million copies of Windows, but that is still less than one quarter of Microsoft revs per day.
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Then in 1656, Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens made the first working pendulum clock, accurate to an error of less than one minute per day.
He and co-host Fern Britton struggled to fill Richard and Judy's shoes, however, attracting one million viewers per day - a million less than their predecessors.
After 24 one-day internationals, he is averaging less than 20, but the feeling is that youngsters have to be selected and then persevered with before they drop out of the sport altogether.
Robbie Joseph and Simon Cook are both out injured while Azhar Mahmood, whose appearances for the county tend to be more or less restricted to one-day games, is also currently ruled out.
Between 1970 and 2000, the percentage of people subsisting on less than one dollar a day in Nigeria grew from 36 percent to more than 70 percent, from 19 million to a staggering 90 million.
Those who reported less than one movement a day were 2.7 times more likely to develop Parkinson's than those who had one a day and 4.5 times more likely to do so than men who boasted more than two each day.
Even the opening episode eventually delivered some high emotion as model Catalina Guirado, already looking less than glamorous after just one day, burst into tears when she was voted in to tackle crocodiles in the "Bushtucker" challenge.
That method worked well for Google, which rose less than one percent in its first day of trading, and a month later was up by a healthy but not unsustainable 20%.
The Dolphin will produce 20 liters (a little over five gallons, for those who don't speak metric) of water per day at 70% humidity, which is enough for your office if you go through one of those ungainly water cooler jugs per day or less plus, without the plastic waste, and avoiding other associated costs of water jug transportation (emissions, namely).
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By any standards, "Coriolanus" is an ambitious undertaking, a modern-day interpretation of one of Shakespeare's meatiest but less frequently performed plays.
"I usually recommend less than one ounce of dark chocolate a day -- a tiny square -- for heart health, " she adds.
Although e-books may one day transform the industry, another new technology that is less visible to readers is already making itself felt.
The country's National Development and Reform Commission wants government officials to cycle to work one day a week, though only if the distance is less than 3km.
First, all of these technologies are becoming less expensive each year with every prospect that one day they will be fully competitive on their own with existing fossil fuel plants or new natural gas plants.
The hospital and GE were happy too, because less anesthesiologist time meant more patients could finish in one day.
"For every few really good outings you have one day when they wake up a bit tired or with a bit less concentration, " he said.
The thinking therefore could only have been that Lara will somehow reunite the team and the region in less than a year, with approximately 20 one-day games to play before the competition starts.
When drainage slows to less than an ounce of fluid a day, usually after one or two weeks, the tubes are removed.
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