Did Hollywood finally catch up with the world, or did the world just catch up with the disaster film?
"The rest of the world will catch on, " says Charles Sweet, president of A.T.
But the English-speaking world has been slow to catch on to his cutting charm.
Research groups around the world are devising strategies to catch old rocket bodies and satellites, to pull them out of orbit.
However, if you are scanning news sites, it is probably to catch up on world events and editorial commentary from the week.
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Dr Smalley's success can be measured in the grumblings from scientists in other fields, and in the way the rest of the world has been scrambling to catch on.
The present recession, the first major one in the age of globalization as we know it today, be even more tragic if that vision is set aside just when parts of the developing world are not just about catch up and but are about to spring into the lead, economically speaking.
It's one way for Vietnam to catch up with the world quickly.
The first time I visited this august assemblage, around the turn of the century, the received opinion was that the United States was so far ahead of the rest of the world that no one could ever catch up.
"For a fire to keep on burning late into the night, you need the logs to catch, and the world's economic firewood has long since been soaked by oversupply and feeble demand now exacerbated by a post-bubble psychology discouraging risk taking, " observes Gross, who still believes stocks are overvalued.
We'll find out soon enough whether they catch on in the real world.
But, impressive as these figures are, China still has a long way to go to catch up to the developed world.
They were a whole range of different groups hoping to catch the attention of the world's press for the single issue that concerned them.
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Like most true stories, the beginning isn't tidy, but we'll start in the 1920s when the idiom top of the world was first used as an advertising catch phrase.
But once the space program commenced at nearby Cape Canaveral, Hudson could catch a glimpse of another world from her front yard as Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft lofted into orbit.
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It seems that while the world waited for the USB standard to catch up to current use models, Seagate and others found a more elegant way to transfer data: the home network.
Imagine you're the poor little richest man in the world, and you just can't catch a break.
Given such misinformation, China will need to work hard to catch up with one of the world's biggest medical problems.
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Smaller versions of MultiTaction are already in use in a few showrooms and museums around the world, but MultiTouch hopes the technology will catch on more broadly.
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The conclusions seems to be that Apple is playing catch up in the Mobile OS world and has been relegated by Google to a niche position, like it was by Microsoft in the Wintel era.
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Kellner thinks the model will catch on in other parts of the world.
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But the real catch here is that host governments the world over will become increasingly keen to get production online as soon as possible.
Complementing the desktop and newly released online versions, the Autodesk 123D Catch app allows users to capture the world around them in 3D while on the go.
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In other words, China had to first catch up with the rest of the world before Chinese companies and individuals could even think about inventing new technologies, or building global brands.
No doubt Mr Blatter, the head of world football, will be taking the opportunity to catch up with Soccerex veteran David Dein, vice-chairman of Arsenal, who last month was new chairman of G-14.
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But recently they have started to catch up with the rest of the world when it comes to coveting the nearly new and Florence is host to the biggest used clothes fair in Italy.
It's going to be particularly quick to catch on in those parts of the world where prepaid cell phone accounts are the norm and people are already comfortable with the notion of handing cash to a merchant and getting nothing but an electronic blip in return.
What are we waiting for--especially now, when the rest of the world, including India and China, is determined to catch up with us?
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