The smart bag, called Build Your Own Bag (bYOB), is just one object that can be constructed using computerized fabric patches designed by a team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
If you own stock in a company that is the object of one or more hostile takeover bids it could mean that it is viewed as financially weak and a good "buying" opportunity for a larger entity.
It is merely a matter of applying an agreed-upon set of rules (for instance, that any thing is equal to itself, or that if something is true for all members of a set of objects, it is true for any one specific object) to a set of agreed-upon structures, such as sets of objects.
And you've written quite a lot about this because you think that one of the underlying arguments of the people who object to that is that family ties, strong family ties are one of the great assets of the immigrant population.
And as an immobile object, housing is one of the easiest assets for governments to tax.
One person who certainly does not object is Mr Kabbah, who was elected in a flawed poll in 1996, and whom most Sierra Leoneans regard as a weak leader dependent on international support to stay in power.
And his cooperation is one reason why authorities didn't object much when a judge decided to ease Madoff's bail terms a bit.
Its smaller diameter is also good news, since there is still one chance in 1800 that the object could slam into earth in 2182.
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One condition is that the lessor must own the leased object for the duration of the lease.
In the eyes of a museum or an auction house, the object is clean simply because no-one has questioned its provenance along the way.
The economy is caught between an unstoppable force on one side and an immovable object on the other.
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Whether the means involve Federal Election Commission disclosure requirements, Securities and Exchange Commission rules on shareholder resolutions, or simply tagging those with opposing views as "hate groups, " the object is clear: to limit debate by forcing one side off the playing field.
The transferability of his gene therapies from treating cancer to treating EB is an object lesson in itself, as a breakthrough in one disease often leads to new treatments in another.
The object lesson worth drawing from this story is that just one instance of bad science given the blessing of recognized experts can lead to years of damaging lies that snowball out of control.
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This asteroid, like the one that will fly by on February 15, is considered a near-Earth object.
Well before its launch, the tiny car had become an object of loathing for environmentalists (unfairly it is one of the cleanest vehicles around).
Indoor tracking systems which process data from one or more sources of location information to estimate where a person or object is located are not new.
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While no one would seriously object to peace and freedom in the Middle East, for example, it is a serious mistake to equate worthy objectives with good policy ideas.
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Physics, astronomy's dutiful daughter, suggests that the object that people call the universe, vast though it is, may be just one of an indefinite number of similar structures, governed by slightly different rules from each other, that inhabit what is referred to, for want of a better term, as the multiverse.
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In this example, the surface is not simply connected and any smoothed-out object looks like a torus with at least one hole.
It is one of a number of premium clinics popping up around the country to tend to a clientele for whom money is no object.
In fact, one of the spooky things about cyberspace is that there is no difference between the original and a copy of a cyber object.
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