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They must turn their heads in this extraordinary way because of their eyes' narrow field of view and relative immobility.
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For GPS, this is an enormous issue because it turns out that the clocks on the satellites drift by almost 40, 000 nanoseconds per day relative to the clocks on the ground because they are high above the earth's surface (and therefore in a weaker gravitational field) and are moving fast relative to the ground.
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The budget, which will be announced on March 21st, is likely to encourage brown-field development by changing its tax treatment, relative to the construction of new houses.
ECONOMIST: The south-east
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This relieves data scientists from having to be Hadoop managers and MapReduce coders, and it also lets business analysts field new questions across large data sets with relative ease.
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The Red Sox and the Yankees will become (relative) penny-pinchers and will suffer for it on the field.
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Flying in formation, they could map the gravitational field of an asteroid or moon by monitoring tiny changes in their relative positions.
ECONOMIST: Picosatellites
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To keep the playing field level across the years, we rated all players on a relative basis, with their stats compared to the norm of the era.
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Rather than craft a test with a dictated and absolute minimum score, creating a relative measure that allows institutions to compete against each other on a level playing field for funds would have been much smarter and aligned to market realities.
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In all, the Rangers should be praised for their epic frugality, the Giants should be lauded for an unbelievable turnaround of fortunes relative to the last five years, and the sport in general has slowly begun to level its competitive playing field financially in large part due to revenue sharing.
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And even though the restaurant business is relatively paltry relative to the size of the debt, and relatively risky, the fact that it also owns this giant oil field means when push comes to shove it can pay off the debt by turning on the oil spigot.
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