The Apple and Google announcements bracket Microsoft's product blast-off, and Redmond is bringing the meat to this sandwich.
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Not many images can compare with the blast-off of the manned spacecraft for summing up a nation's economic and scientific capabilities, which is why so much is riding on this mission's success and why Chinese will be watching and waiting for the Shenzhou VI to touch down safely on the grasslands of inner Mongolia.
Oil wants to blast off but the lift-off is heavy and forced.
The blast killed off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson and maimed a nurse, Emily Lyons.
The blast killed off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson, 35, who was working as a security guard at the clinic, and maimed a nurse, Emily Lyons, then 41.
The blast went off on al-Moski Street, a narrow street of tourist shops and clothes sellers - often crammed with foreigners and Egyptian shoppers, carts and peddlers - near the main bazaar of Khan al-Khalili.
The blast uncorked a BP-owned well off southeastern Louisiana that spewed for 87 days before being temporarily capped.
Yet, after nearly a year's delay, and with the financing almost back on track, it is making preparations to blast off another potentially deal-wrecking missile.
That brought Lee to the crease, and he was happy to support Hussey with some obdurate defence - although he did well to blast back-to-back fours through the covers against off-spinner Virender Sehwag.
The force of the blast blew off the embassy's bomb-proof doors -- which were later used as stretchers to carry away the injured.
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Although the company was relatively week yesterday, it is flagging in front of 52-week highs, and should blast off if the market continues to be strong.
Scientists believe it was the blast of a 6-mile-wide asteroid off the coast of Mexico some 64 million years ago that changed Earth's weather for years and hastened the departure of the dinosaurs.
Joanne Maguire, overall head of the company's space programs, said in an interview that the Orion capsule is slated to blast off on top of a heavy-lift version of the U.S. military's Delta IV rocket.
The low-fare blast is squarely aimed at siphoning off traffic from United and other legacy airlines like AMR , Delta Air Lines , Continental Airlines , Northwest Airlines and US Airways Group as the industry starts its fall season slowdown.
Unlike conventional rockets that blast off from a pad, air-launched systems similar to the one Mr. Allen wants to put together are designed to deliver a broad range of satellites to space without the constraints of weather or optimal times and locations to try to reach specific orbits.
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The game, called Space Race Blast Off is a pretty straightforward, multi-player trivia game.
Most promising: an online "CW Lab" that will let fans tie together short clips from their favorites shows along with music, logos and personal videos, and then blast them off to friends through IM and e-mail.
District co-ordination officer Kamran Khan said that the blast went off in a teacher's house, where Koranic lessons for children were regularly held.
It enables this otherwise blocky 5, 700-pound vehicle to take off with a blast and just keep on running, reaching 60 mph in 5.9 seconds.
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The sweeping melodrama of The Swimmer and St Francis Dam Disaster provide the album's most emotionally-charged moments, while Robert Onion and Blast Off carry the kind of brooding, sinister undertone which used to make the Pixies so compelling.
The Queen's cousin and former Viceroy and Governor-General of India was killed in a bomb blast on his boat off County Sligo.
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The blast went off in the city's Kadhimiya district, home to Musa al-Kadhim, Shiite Islam's third holiest shrine.
The move provoked an angry reaction from the French government, which accused Arcelor Mittal of breaking a 2006 commitment to keep the blast furnaces running - a claim denied by the steel giant - and criticised the firm for refusing to sell off the site as a whole.
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