Like surfers who have been waiting for the big wave, the spacecraft are riding to the red planet as Mars and Earth make their nearest pass to each other since prehistoric times.
And then the big multinational began to shift its manufacturing facilities off-shore, the first big wave of deindustrialization in the second half of the 1980s.
He told CNN the last big wave of the attack hit Tuesday morning, but that he doesn't "live under the illusion" that there won't be more.
The second big wave of Hollywood blockbusters will hit theaters in the next few weeks with movies like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ( now in 2-D), The Tourist and the third Meet the Parents film.
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The growing acceptance of open-source software, especially when it is supported by a dedicated vendor, is another way by which the big data wave is different from previous surges of investment in the collection and analysis of data.
Or they may rise with the big data wave to lead the digital transformation of businesses, non-profits, and government agencies.
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Mobile ads have been touted as the next big wave for advertisers.
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As it turned out, though, this was to be the last big wave of technology spending in recent U.S. military history that came to fruition (some parts of the Reagan-era plan, like missile defense, did not pan out).
For a company whose image has grown staid in recent years--its mainstay is still printers and computers and the company largely missed out on the first big Internet wave--HP is trying to get back on the cutting edge track.
All because so many venture capitalists are trying to ride the next wave of technology IPOs and make a quick, big buck before the wave runs its course.
The bosses of the big paper companies explain the merger wave with visionary strategic statements.
Broadcasts include international sporting events such as the Mavericks big-wave surfing contest from Half Moon Bay, Calif.
If Hellstrom can't lift the sales of Sony-Ericsson handsets, he may find himself competing not with the other big five but with the next wave of competition from Korea and China.
It wasn't too bad - hands in the air, a couple of finger clicks, and a big wave to the camera.
Middle Easterners: Different cultures, petite, my friends, scarves, The Kite Runner, big eyes, New Wave, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Alicia Keys and bagels.
The last spectacular wave of growth for the big western firms came several decades ago after they were kicked out of the giant fields of the Persian Gulf.
It was like there was a big drop and then the wave came over us, it was like a big wall of water.
What is more, it is becoming ever clearer that the big banks face a wave of write-offs on their loans.
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For those too young to recall the big-city crime wave of the sixties and seventies, it may seem like mere bogeyman history.
But six weeks after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, she could never have guessed how big was the wave she had begun.
With that computational power and the ability to tirelessly swim across vast oceans, the Wave Glider SV3 represents a big step forward in the state-of-the-art of unmanned monitoring and exploration.
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In a sense, the foray by Google and Amazon into financing resembles the wave of loans made by big telecom and Internet gear makers to their customers in the late 1990s.
On Monday, the University of Maryland Board of Regents unanimously approved leaving the ACC and joining the Big Ten conference, a decision that may trigger the next wave of college sports realignment.
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The world even said good morning to a big wave of Japanese tourists by placing miso soup, rice, grilled fish and pickled vegetables on the breakfast menu.
Nevertheless, several people in the hedge fund business say there is no huge redemption wave hitting the industry and, by and large, big institutional investors have elected to remain heavily invested in hedge funds for 2013.
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For the CMO, does this growing wave of Big Data represent progress or a problem?
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Big data is a big wave flooding all corners of the enterprise and it may sweep with it the IT organization.
Dance, television and the big screen have been crests for the Celtic music wave.
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