This implies the potential for a less robust understanding of both the material risks and opportunities facing corporations as they seek to drive strong enduring business performance.

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And even just understanding the atomic-scale defects in a material can suggest better ways of making it.

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What is possible, however, is to estimate a range of possible trajectories, based on the best understanding of how ocean currents transport material.

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It is the raw material for evidence and greater understanding.

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The images from the Hubble, which has a clear view of the cosmos from its orbit above the Earth's turbulent atmosphere, will enable astronomers to gain a better understanding of black holes and the effect they have on material captured in their gravitational trap.

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This common understanding has already begun to articulate itself in the debate over materiality in the context of what is a material or relevant disclosure with respect to shareholder proxy statements.

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