By radio, Cornelissen provided the Zodiac with directions, and for the first mile or so the dinghy, driven by a volunteer named Adam Conniss, raced across the empty water.
The local loop assets cover the last mile or so of wire between telephone exchanges and homes.
All three Sky owners from Hixson had stories to tell about a sales consultant who went the extra mile or a service call that exceeded their expectations.
The Skunk Works small gift shop is open to the public about a mile or so down the road.
London's mayor, Boris Johnson, wants central swaths of the capital, including the financial district (known as the City or the Square Mile), the South Bank and the West End, completely exempted from the new rules, and has lodged an official complaint with the government.
You could operate a mile or two mile off the shore - no problem.
But some of the most mesmerizing work space photographs in this collection belong to the lesser-known: the coal miner working nearly half a mile underground, or the two astronauts hard at work 200 miles above it.
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If he flew that far once, maybe he'll go the extra mile again -- or bid via phone, fax or the Web.
For the last several years, as clock speeds have inexorably ramped up, the one-gigahertz barrier has for computer buffs taken on the significance of the sound barrier or the four-minute mile.
From a distance, it is easy to spot the purple Phantom sailing down 17 Mile Drive, at the Quail or in front of the Spanish Bay, parked next to the canary-yellow colored Phantom and the ruby red Phantom that belong to the same owner.
Still, it would be foolish to ignore the possibility that the repercussions of the present crisis will be made much more far-reaching if it precipitates the sort of panic that took hold after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in 1979 or the oil leak off Santa Barbara a decade earlier.
As obvious as that sounds (of course customers love good service), plenty of small businesses don't go the extra mile--or even a few yards.
Expect about 1, 000 pleasure boaters to make the 40-mile trek from Cleveland or Toledo, Ohio, or Detroit to the battle site in the middle of Lake Erie.
In towns across the Alps you can rent a sled, take a train or ski lift a mile or two up the hill, and launch yourself on a terrifying run that puts the rides at Disney World to shame.
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They claim that they will have a magic box of telecommunications hardware and software that can eliminate the bottleneck known as the Last Mile: the final stretch of cable, fiber or copper into homes.
Cycling these days consists of going to the station a mile away, escorting the children to school, or popping down to the shops.
You could say the same thing for Walk the Line or for 8 Mile.
Its oceanfront acreage, compared with the mainland's, goes for less than half the price, and a mile or two inland, it's cheaper still.
The industry argues that this is highly unlikely, as the fraccing takes place a mile or more below drinking water aquifers and is separated from them by thick layers of impermeable rock.
Alternatively, if barefoot luxury is more the order of the day, arrange a stay at Elsewhere near Mandrem, a collection of three 19th-century Portuguese homes (known as the Priest's House, the Bakery and the Piggery) on a mile or so of privately owned beach, perfect for bobbing about undisturbed with only gulls and ghosts of Portuguese past for company.
The storm cut a six-mile-long path through the city, destroying or damaging about 12% of it, Tuscaloosa officials say.
Thus if they run the car for a few months, or up to the 10, 000 mile sort of level, they can and do make a profit on the disposal into the second hand car market.
Items that go the extra mile include luxurious hand lotion and mints or blackcurrent pastilles set out on a nice tray by the sink for guests.
Delta, United, American, Southwest and Alaska were all over 7.5% of revenue passenger miles with awards. (A revenue passenger mile, or one passenger flying one mile, is the standard measure of traffic for airlines.) Alaska was best at a hefty 9% of revenue passenger miles on frequent-flier awards.
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You go about a mile or so down the road until you reach a cemetery.
When it reached about a mile or so above the surface, the chute will be jettisoned and a cluster of eight landing rockets would fire.
Dharavi is on a prime location adjacent to a big nature park and a mile or so from the city's new Bandra-Kurla business district, as well as being near the airport.
She wished she knew what kind of region it was, whether it was prairie or forest, or just mile after mile of suburb or strip mall, like the America on television crime shows.
In the meantime, the number that really matters--called the "yield, " or the price a passenger pays to fly one mile--fell 4.5%.
The Garcias' neighbor, Steve McEndree, saw cars lined up for a mile or more by gas stations as he made the drive from his Humble home to George Bush Houston Intercontinental Airport before dawn Tuesday.
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