And what nation is at the center, both in physical and geopolitical terms, of that map?

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"The Gore people find themselves in a situation similar to us in terms of the electoral map, " says Tony Fabrizio, the chief strategist for GOP nominee Bob Dole in 1996.

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In terms of personalization options, the map will analyze the places that you travel, highlight routes and offer suggestions based on spots that you and your friends enjoy.

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Now when we look at this map, we think in terms of red and blue states.

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Kamionkowski compared the Planck map to the Human Genome Project in terms of its importance for cosmology.

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But to have a chance, management has to come to terms with its Borders-like doomsday scenario, and map out a plausible survival strategy.

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With enough time, I would expect an object map would look similar to the Facebook graph in terms of how connections completely transcend geography.

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Overall, our approach is to map technologies on a radar diagram that projects their maturity in terms of general availability.

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In terms of pure visual data (as calculated by Photoshop at the same level of jpg compression) the Google Map screen weighs in at precisely half the information of its prettier Apple counterpart.

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