Previously, a high school could sell space in the end zone, or signage around the field, or even sell naming rights to the stadium itself.

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The primary reason is to create a space for the individual, a zone for oneself within society.

ECONOMIST: Museum architecture

The prudent use of coastal development setbacks or establishing a safe distance between buildings and the active beach zone can ensure that space is provided for a beach to move naturally, both during normal events and infrequent hurricanes, thereby ensuring the beach is conserved for all to enjoy and that coastal infrastructure remains intact.

UNESCO: Introduction

"It's a vibrant place and there's a bit more opportunity, certainly within the centre of town, to have shared space or to make it a pedestrian zone, " he said.

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When the characters fly through the air, the space becomes an actual medium, not a dead zone.

NEWYORKER: Up

This past December, for example, NASA's Kepler space telescope confirmed its first planet in the habitable zone, a "super Earth" known as Kepler-22b that's thought to be 2.4 times as wide as our planet.

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"If the Wright brothers were starting out today they'd never get off the ground, " fumes Ky Michaelson, who spent two years dickering with bureaucrats at an offshoot of the FAA to get a license to launch to 390, 000 feet, well past the boundary zone between the Earth's atmosphere and space.

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The scheme is designed to protect weak links in the euro zone for the next three years, buying them the breathing space to shore up public finances, clean up banks and retool uncompetitive economies so they can grow again and pay off their debts.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Michigan was doing what no other team seemed capable of lately the Wolverines were beating the zone by shooting over all those long-armed defenders and moving the ball well enough to create more space on the perimeter.

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