However, large-scale natural disasters--though rare and well spaced out in time--undoubtedly have that power.
Figures published in 2007 (see Condoms or family meals?) suggest, at that time, 15-year-old boys in England and Scotland spent far more time than their European counterparts out with their pals - mostly just hanging around.
At the close on day three England had scored 38 of the 132 needed for victory, skipper Hutton the only man out, the fourth and final time he was run-out in his illustrious career, and the only one to involve his trusty partner Edrich.
These "marathon mice" can run twice as long as their unmodified brothers and sisters-- and, in a paper coming out right at the time of the Olympics, that's leading to hand-wringing about the possibilities of applying this knowledge to create performance-enhancing drugs.
She compared illegal loggers to terrorists, and put Victor Corpus, a former military-intelligence chief and one-time communist guerrilla, in charge of a drive to stamp it out.
First, we need to reconcile the American people's demands for swift action with the fact that a good bill requires time -- time to hold hearings, read the bill in painstaking detail, and root out waste.
But that always, sort of, translates - but there's the time-honored, leave your costume in the bushes and change on the way out.
Part-time volunteers, who in the West are often middle-class people who want to help out in their spare time and are often the mainstay of charities, are all but unknown in Russia.
The boom in prices ushered in a time of profits and high valuations in a business where bail-out and bankruptcy had previously been the norm.
We've done plenty of talking in the dressing room - now is the time to go out there and put those big performances in.
Germany says the EU should now seek an all-embracing deal, including on the size and scope of the bail-out fund, in time for the next summit in March.
It is ironic that today's computer industry has its origins in a data-processing project carried out in 1890 that was completed on time and under budget.
Of course, many other games like the weird-looking Puppeteer on PSN, the highly-anticipated DUST 514 free-to-play shooter, and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time help flesh out the many PlayStation exclusives of 2013.
Ovi Maps beta adds visibility to subways, trams and trains in 85 cities around the world, real-time traffic, safety alerts in or out of navigation mode, visibility to parking and petrol stations, and speed limit warnings.
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They've beaten Australia home and away, they beat France last time out, they won away in Wales - this side has different personnel and a different mentality to the England team that played Ireland in the past seven games.
The restaurant's theme is inspired by Harlem in the late 1920s through the '40s, and the staff is decked out in red-and-black uniforms from the time period.
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Holmes hit the front just before the bell in front of a sell-out crowd in Glasgow and cruised to victory in a time of four minutes 14.74 seconds.
Mess up--or just run out of time--and your e-mail will ferment in your mailbox, awaiting you in a more lucid moment.
SideCar, which launched in Seattle in November, has fined-tuned the technology and believes it can now roll-out in multiple cities at the same time, Paul says.
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On the contrary, she and her lieutenants point out that Mr Lieberman served for a time in the outgoing Kadima-led government and they suggest that, once in office, his incendiary rhetoric tends to subside.
When HR sees an innovation they immediately think in terms of an enterprise-wide roll out, which is expensive, risky and time consuming all in all, better be put to death than permitted.
Deep in chapter 4, Rheingold, a long-time writer and observer of digital culture, looks at how human collective action plays out in the digital world.
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The 2006 champions are aiming to reach the final for the fourth time and are participating in the knock-out stages for a 10th successive season.
The former reason poses a bit of a problem: those incoming interns who are seeking notice and eventual full-time employment may get left out in the cold come next season.
None of the parties has excelled at putting women candidates in winnable seats this time around - and many of the Blair babes have faded out of the photograph already.
For her family, protecting Achieng from burn-out is a priority and her time in Kenya is vital to that.
It will be helpful for the inspector to point things out to you in real-time and demonstrate where the systems are and how they work.
Brodeur returned to Devils practice for the first time in nearly a month Monday and felt pain-free after working out for an hour at the team's practice rink at the Prudential Center.
Theoretically one way to game the contest would be to trade in and out of positions using real-time quotes, which would give a trader the advantage over others in the contest, who used delayed quotes when they tracked their portfolio on the channel's Web site.
Rosicky was substituted at half-time in Arsenal's win and Wenger confirmed the midfielder could be out for a month.
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