Maybe cars that foresee consequences and slow you down and impose a safe passing distance.

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Layers of sound fold one over another, the low beat of a dragonfly's wings joined by the calling of crickets, the clucking of a mother hen with her chicks, and the thrum of a motorcycle passing in the distance.

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Changes in the telecommunication industry resulted in so many choices that with each passing day firms pitching long distance or local phone service grew more feverish in their marketing efforts.

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Kohli was troubled by cramps and had to use a runner after passing 50, but managed to get within touching distance of a century before being caught out.

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Unfortunately, a passing gravitational wave will make only a tiny change in the distance the laser beams have to travel.

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Drive a short distance up the road to the offices at Morrisette House, on the way passing Chantilly House, the still-in-progress antebellum manse.

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However, we can look at conditions off in the distance and surmise whether what was just experienced was an isolated financial cold front passing through, or ongoing problems that have us in the eye of a storm.

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Distance-sensing lasers will check for vehicles in the driver's blind spot and the passing lane.

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