"There were 30 of us standing in the blue water, watching the snow come from the sky while discussing the values of the company, " said Gudmundsson.

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Goux at his window, watching clouds float through the sky over Paris and comparing them unfavorably with certain clouds in paintings by Pissarro or the clouds in his nightmare.

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On the train I start watching a TV show I recorded on the Sky box last night but didn't have a chance to watch.

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As the company's dominance fades and the regulators keep a watching eye, Sky will also have to learn to be less bullying.

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Customers are also able to take their Sky Movies service with them while they are on the move, watching the movies on a range of internet-connected devices including iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones through Sky's award-winning multiplatform TV service Sky Go.

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"This means that by watching what happens to the positions of the quasars on the sky as the gravitational field of Jupiter moves past their line-of-sight, the scientists can test other aspects of the general relativity theory, " says Professor Shanks.

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It stares at a fixed patch of sky, watching a field of more than 150, 000 stars for the tiny dips in starlight that occur if an orbiting planet passes between a star and the telescope.

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