Stephen Ball, chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin UK, owner of UK Seabed Resources, says the engineering experience of offshore oil and gas operations and the trend to rising mineral prices have now combined to make seabed mining feasible.
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Australia raced to 89-0 but at 120-3, and needing two runs off the last ball, Stephen O'Keefe was run out and England won by virtue of losing fewer wickets.
Sunderland had the first chance after six minutes when Stephen Kelly gave the ball away to Jones whose strike on goal was crisp but poorly directed straight at Sorenson who palmed away, and Reid could only fire the follow-up well over the bar.
He found space in the box to receive the ball and just as was about to pull the trigger, Stephen Carr's tackle diverted the ball to Bent, who fired in from six yards.
After 17 minutes, Pandiani shrugged off Philippe Senderos and cut the ball back to Stephen Clemence who sidefooted over.
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Stephen Warnock's long ball dropped behind Joleon Lescott, and Santa Cruz slid a simple finish past Howard as Everton appealed in vain for offside.
The Slovakian winger's quick free-kick caught the Motherwell defence out as Miller retrieved and bundled the ball home as Stephen Craigan and Randolph closed in.
Going into the final over, the Bears needed only five to win, a task made harder when Keedy had Trott caught by Stephen Parry off the first ball.
"The game plan tonight was to keep the ball out of Stephen Curry's hands, but he came off (the pick-and-rolls) and had open looks and then he started finding people, " Lawson said.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave Mr Obama a ball signed by the 2011 Toronto Raptors professional basketball team, as well as a "golden-framed 19th Century antique map of North America, surrounded by drawings of North American Indians, beavers".
Evans struck with his fourth ball of the day to have home captain Alex Gidman also held by Hall at slip and later had Chris Taylor caught by Stephen Peters at extra cover the ball after being hooked for six.
Gareth McKeown twice went close with long-range efforts and Ross Arthur stabbed the ball past the post as Stephen Baxter's side pressed for a second.
Pascali again lost a long ball, this time from Stephen Craigan, to leave Murphy clear on goal, but Bell dived to his left to push away the Scotland Under-21 striker's effort.
Baines' square ball should have been cleared by Stephen Jordan but Camara pounced on his half-hearted clearance to deflect past Weaver.
Villa left-back Stephen Warnock was almost punished for giving the ball away in the opening minute when Arshavin put Chamakh through before home keeper Brad Friedel came to his team-mate's rescue by blocking at the striker's feet.
Tim Howard was fortunate to see the ball drop out for a corner when he dropped Stephen McPhail's deep free-kick close to his own goal.
But Spain demonstrated their threat when Villa escaped central defenders Stephen McManus and David Weir to latch on to a speeding ball from midfield, but his shot went over the bar from 18 yards.
Motherwell had the first serious attempt at goal when Stephen Hammell's corner found John Sutton, who bundled the ball towards goal but Shaun Maloney headed away on the line.
The home team might have forced their way back into the game minutes after the restart but an unmarked Stephen Elliott could not control a driven low cross from Jones and the ball flew wide.
Raith were gifted an equaliser 14 minutes later when Jamie Langfield, who had endured a nervy start to the match, made a mess of collecting a Stephen Simmons free-kick and the grateful Mole calmly slotted the loose ball past the stranded goalkeeper.
Within seconds Derby should have been level after Stephen Pearson ended a mazy run into the Coventry penalty box with a square ball towards Dickov but the striker inexplicably drilled his shot over from six yards.
Their attacking play brought them level on 15 minutes with Stephen Jones slotting over a 30-yard penalty after the French side killed the ball on the floor.
Both Ball and Staunton are nominated for best performance in a musical, while the Stephen Sondheim-created show is up for best musical production.
The All Blacks went 42-3 ahead as they worked the ball wide for Smith to stroll over for another easy touchdown, converted by replacement Stephen Donald.
Stephen Jones put in a try-saving tackle on his rival fly-half but the ball rebounded off the Scarlets man into touch and the Ospreys had a five-metre attacking line-out.
Zaza did even better to stop Robinho's first-time shot after good work by Stephen Ireland, while Wright-Phillips was horribly off-target following another sublime Elano through-ball.
Stephen Jones' kick-off epitomised the Scarlets' season thus far - off kilter as the ball ran dead, bringing a scrum on half-way at which the Wales fly-half must have been relieved to see a free kick awarded against Ulster.
Atapattu's 244-ball innings, which lasted more than six hours, finally ended when he was caught by Stephen Fleming off Nathan Astle.
Manchester City boss Stuart Pearce, without Joey Barton, Micah Richards and Michael Ball, makes two changes to the side that lost to rivals United last time out, Stephen Jordan and Sun Jihai coming into the team.
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