Such research also represents a healthy half-step between pure academic research and for-profit development.
Each step forward, however, is often accompanied by a glance, or even a half-step, back.
The FAA took a half-step in that direction in 2008, creating a nonpunitive reporting system for air traffic controllers.
The occasional half-step across that ill-defined line is tolerated, indeed applauded at times.
Though Israel's exasperation is understandable, it would be wiser to take a half-step in response to what some see as a half-step by Hamas.
Mr Obama also took a half-step in the direction of bringing down costs through the Republicans' favoured measure: tackling the huge costs of doctors' legal liabilities.
Then again, markets have often rallied ahead of summits in the expectation of an agreement, only to be disappointed within days, or even hours, of the latest half-step being announced.
Though the U.S. is Ecuador's most important trading partner, Alberto Acosta, who was elected to the constitutional assembly and serves as its president, opposes negotiations for a free trade agreement with the U.S. Instead, he wants "a commercial agreement"--some kind of half-step toward free trade.
Often, the deterioration reveals itself in increments a mile or two per hour in lost velocity, a half-second slower step initially imperceptible to the athlete.
Pavey will step up to half-marathon in the Great North Run, which takes place on 1 October.
Five tries in an 18-minute spell early in the second half brought the Bulls a ninth successive victory and a step closer to a fifth-successive Grand Final appearance.
And it would also address in one step more than half of the so-called fiscal cliff.
HALF-EXPECTING to be shot, dozens of tourists nervously step down from the luxury buses that line up every Sunday morning outside the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.
One step-sister has been refashioned as half of a secondary couple, and the King and Queen have been dispatched in favor of a wicked stepfather figure for the Prince.
Half of all adoption orders are now accounted for by step-parents formally assuming the care of their partners' children.
The visitors had a spring in their step and moved further ahead just after the half-hour, McGillvary taking a superb lofted pass from Brown to dart over in the corner.
But City continued to look dangerous too and they should have won a penalty before half-time when Robinho, after bamboozling Michael Beauchamp with a succession of step-overs, was hacked down by the Australian defender only for referee Alain Hamer to decide against a spot-kick.
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Nielsen took the first step a year and a half ago when it began including time-shifted viewing data, typically measured within three (termed "live plus three") or seven days ("live plus seven") of a program's original airing.
It's a major-key sound, but unlike our major keys, which have a half step between the third and fourth tones, the Lydian scale has a whole step there, and the half step between steps four and five.
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If Martin had been on the fifth step however, the gap would only be seven-and-a-half inches wide, the court was told.
After announcing an unexpected fall in first-half net profit, Swiss Re said that John Coomber, its chief executive, would step down at the end of the year.
England took the inevitable step of moving Monye from full-back to the wing for the second half and England made a dynamic - at least compared to the first half - start.
All the evidence suggests that, despite more than decade-and-a-half of goods being labelled in both metric and imperial, the British remain defiantly out of step with their counterparts across the channel.
Thanks to a second-half surge Saturday night in the semifinals of the West Coast conference tournament, it'll step on the floor Monday night in the championship game of the event as the nation's No. 1 team for a second straight week.
But as the first half wore on Hull KR established a foothold and got their first try thanks to Galea's side-step and surge over the line.
Pennant curled a left-foot shot over as Watford looked to step up a gear, but they suffered a setback when Helguson was injured just before half-time and had to be replaced by Dominic Foley.
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