When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).
Some of the newer lines of business, such as life insurance, look promising.
Thanks to Alaska Airlines' pioneering efforts, beleaguered passengers can look forward to avoiding some of those interminable lines at airports.
That does not mean a settlement is likely, but at least some new lines of communication have been opened up.
Sure, some of the big news was the integrated EV-DO in HP's nc6140 notebook, but some of the older lines get some freshness too.
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Some of the Nazca Lines, mysterious geoglyphs that span a vast swath of the rugged Peruvian desert, may have once been a labyrinth with a spiritual purpose, a new study suggests.
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On Feb. 28, Citigroup stepped in to shore up struggling lender Ameriquest, taking an equity stake and also arranging a credit line and getting the option to buy some of its business lines.
The same game is played by some of the cruise lines when they tell their passengers that certain shops in port are recommended for their good deals, when in reality there is a more basic reason for the referral: money.
This is a problem for railway bridges too, according to Network Rail, and it employs scuba divers among its maintenance crew in order to spot damage to bridges - not to mention abseilers - to deal with some of its seafront lines.
"Tourism is huge, but also some of the rail lines were washed out and railcars can't get to ships, interrupting the mining industry, " said Amy Norris, 59, a public information coordinator for the city, after finishing up a tour of the Fond du Lac riverfront by Coast Guard airboat.
Not only do certain consulting firms fail to disclose to clients important information about conflicts of interest, some firms outright lie about their lines of business when asked.
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Lucas surely had fun incorporating details of real-life stories and famous comments made by Davis, as well as lines from some of her films.
Think about some of the memorable tag lines or slogans that project bold.
This answer is a reminder that some of the old fault lines remain.
Perhaps there will still be an entry, but I do feel the bigger trade will be trying to re-short some of the broken trend lines.
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The bottom line is that Mr Osborne has difficult times ahead, but the eurozone and the OBR have given him some very good lines of defence.
It now has taken on more urgency, especially since gm and Ford had to temporarily shut down some production lines because of parts shortages after Sept. 11.
To add the layer of grayish blue that distinguishes some of the more furtive lines in "The Sisters, " I tucked in some icy blue tweedia and chose a chalky gray vase.
At the WWDC, Apple and Mr. Jobs showed that they were prepared to continue to create, even if it came at the (eventual) expense of some of their strongest product lines.
But I don't think we should close our minds to the benefits of some possible wider exam system along the lines of the baccalaureate in France or the international baccalaureate or the ... in Germany, whatever it might be.
Like McDonald's, which attracted more high-end customers with spruced-up restaurants while not abandoning its dollar menu, Wal-Mart's trick will be to build on the early success of some upscale apparel lines while continuing to offer low price points across its products, Shapira indicated.
Activists say many of the planned roads and rail lines will run through some of Rio's poorest neighbourhoods, forcing the eviction of those living there.
Kyle proudly drew lines between some of the boxes to represent interfaces that he had created between them.
Some of the listed numbers were lines that FBI counterintelligence used to keep track of the suspected Israeli spy operation.
"Maybe we should introduce some kind of scheme along the lines of that which we have with historic buildings in this country, " said Casey.
"We've gotten out of some loss-making lines but in Japan relations with customers are wet, so it's hard to cut them off, " says Kobori.
Some 10, 000 lines of clothing will be reduced to around 9, 000.
Indeed, Dr Nuzhdin and his colleagues have discovered that some laboratory-bred lines of Drosophila accumulate copia at a rate hundreds of times higher than normal.
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