Chris Patten, shortly to become a British commissioner in Brussels, was recruited to run an inquiry into the future of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

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Since then, models have become even more accurate, have better resolution, can run further out into the future and are capable of processing significantly more satellite data, Uccellini said.

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At a time when the lines between government and business are blurring and most pundits are quick to color them over with the promise of technology, Khanna has given us an important guide that will help us run the world into the future.

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Yet studies run into the unreliability of modelling future climatic effects and sometimes ignore changes in land use and health care.

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His reminiscences revolve around a man named Django (Jeff Bridges), who urged his super-recruits to run through walls and peer into the future.

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Not too far into the future, it may become commonplace for people to run common functions in their homes using their smart phones.

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But that still leaves the future potential for Boise or BYU or even Nevada to run into an insurmountable and perhaps unfair scheduling wall that may negate their championship dreams.

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Is the appropriate response to accept that it was mere bad luck to run into such a rare event or to get new forecasting models that assume more storms in future?

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After their relentless run, American stockmarket prices are now based on the assumption of juicy earnings growth for several years into the future.

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