But forest products have always been cut in remote and distant areas and thrown in a pipe and spit out on the other side.

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As a result, a lot of core projects have been cut down from distant remote offices and moved closer to heart.

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Past and future are distant and remote as the present moment expands to dominate everything.

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So, for example, if a field worker is having trouble repairing something, he can have a distant colleague remote in and offer help -- sort of the virtual equivalent of looking over someone's shoulder.

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Sometimes what I can do to try to improve the economy or to curb foreclosures or to help deal with the health care system -- sometimes it seems so distant and so remote, so profoundly inadequate to the enormity of the need.

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So if you're single (or would like to be), have no friends whatsoever, and don't even mind personal humiliation, keep an eye out for the Remote Wrangler to hit electronics prank departments sometime in the distant future.

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Distant will be the days when the isolation of remote villages imposed a natural quarantine on a nascent outbreak.

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The MFO is a small international command, remote from the Egyptian-Israeli border, manning small monitoring outposts distant from any civilian population centers and lightly armed.

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To the distant Western traveler, Timbuktu has for centuries conjured images of mystery and wonder, a remote Shangri-La whose tantalizing riches and intellectual wealth lured the brave and adventurous.

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