• The ultimate promise of reusable craft like SpaceShipOne is a vastly reduced launch cost, greater ease of preparing a flight and the prospect of opening space for tourism.

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  • Equally, the prospect of an opening up of the local oil and gas industry to more meaningful foreign participation will involve many complex political manoeuvres.

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  • That might allow further interest-rate cuts, opening the prospect of more jobs for voters.

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  • This would entail passing the same bill, a second time, in the 2013-14 session, opening up the prospect of a re-run of this week's festivities.

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  • Dr Rosalind Thomas, eFive's chief executive, agreed last year to alter the cable's path to bring it closer to the island, opening up the prospect of connecting it.

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  • Such shareholders may not blink at the prospect of virgin Alaskan wilderness opening up for oil exploration, but they care if this poses a risk to a company's share price.

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  • But that time frame now seems unlikely, analysts say, opening up the prospect that a new president is elected without a clear constitutional framework by which to govern, or checks on his powers.

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  • At this stage he is offering only "greater" opportunities, not the full opening, but the deal is in prospect.

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  • But one thing that could salvage a Texas-San Francisco matchup is the prospect of dueling aces Lee and Tim Lincecum opposing each other in the opening game (and, presumably, again in a Game Five).

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  • Now that official restraints have been loosened, Americans nonetheless retreat into what Holder calls "race-protected cocoons" and rely upon cliches, stereotypes and familiar habits of ethnic and racial congregation instead of opening ourselves to the undeniably uncomfortable, but ultimately rewarding, prospect of facing each other across the chasm of learned behaviors and inherited reflexes.

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  • However, if that prospect is in close proximity to the home office, what is the point of opening in New York in the first place?

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  • After Sexton hit an upright with his first penalty shot at goal, the outstanding young prospect's slick distribution was on target to help launch the move that ended with the game's opening try.

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