"In the near future, this type of simple laser communication might serve as a backup for the radio communication that satellites use, " Smith said in a statement.
One very senior unionist source suggested to me that if a poll reaffirmed Northern Ireland's position in the UK, it should be up to a simple majority vote within the assembly to decide when and whether a future referendum might be held.
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The following table provides a simple example accounting for future earnings.
In a world of multiple connections, where the distribution of future probabilities cannot be known (unlike the probabilities involved when spinning a roulette wheel), simple rules of thumb may be more useful than sophisticated models.
Ok, Shilling may be right about higher rates of saving in the future, but lost on him is the simple reality that no act of saving ever detracts from demand.
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"Our coating method is simple, and it can be applied in the future in large-area manufacturing processes, " said Rui Zhu, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA Engineering and the paper's lead author.
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If there really were such a simple and reliable indicator of future economic conditions, predicting the recession would have been easy, betting on the economy via the stock market would wither and we'd probably see an eyebrow derivatives market.
Rather, these great minds all recommend following a simple asset allocation strategy that doesn't rely on predicting the future.
The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement contains the simple assertion that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations.
"The answer is simple, " says Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co.
We are not condemned to be prisoners of the past for the simple reason that today, at midlife and beyond, we still have a future.
Regardless of where production goes, and future production is tough to figure, this part of the issue is simple.
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However, evidence from simple tests suggest the forecast is a mildly (not materially) contrarian indicator of future U.S. stock market behavior.
But this is not a simple task, particularly when it involves assets with risk exposures far into the future and which are traded so rarely that there is no good market benchmark for setting the price.
We love finding simple solutions to seemingly complex problems, and aircraft manufacturer Airbus' vision for the future of aviation is just that.
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But we have the steepest yield curve that we've had in the last 40 years, and yield curve steepness is an overly simple sense a predictor of future bank system eagerness to lend.
This simple story helped World Bank staff and managers envision a different kind of future for the organization.
But, by implementing a few simple productivity strategies, you really can create a life like this now and in the future.
His simple new communal home contrasts with the much larger accommodation currently being renovated inside the Vatican for the future use of the now retired former Pope Benedict and his staff, reports the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
Simple, soften them up with a long campaign about how a pension fund deficit is threatening the future of the company - and therefore their jobs - then ask them to pay more for their pensions.
Whether elaborate or simple, a written business plan is an assembly of facts, ideas, assumptions and projections about the future.
So far Simple Energy is only available to customers in Delaware and California but the company is looking to expand in the future.
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In that sense, if future pay is a concern, one simple solution would be for Congress to either vote to keep the capital gains rate at 15%--or better yet reduce the price of investment success to zero.
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