Any new owner will want to ensure that Ford retains an interest in the future of the business, in part because it may be possible to persuade the commission to count Jaguar and Land Rover as part of Ford's bigger and more economical range for the purpose of measuring emissions.

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For a trip to be deductible, you must put in 40 hours of work a week. (Keep a log in case you're audited.) Tasks can range from genteel drudgery such as observing, measuring and cataloging, to more taxing activities, say, hiking to 17, 000 feet in the Himalayas to study Nepalese snow leopards.

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Henceforth, in studying the processes of development, researchers and experts have the choice of a range of quantitative tools which can renew the methods of measuring these processes.

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The phone felt slightly fuller in the hand compared to the recent glut of sub-10mm devices, measuring in at just under 12mm thick, but like Palm's HP's now defunct Pre range, it's a very comfortable fit in the hand.

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By measuring the way their fields reflect and emit energy at visible and infrared wavelengths, precision farmers can monitor a wide range of variables that affect their crops such as soil moisture, surface temperature, photosynthetic activity, and weed or pest infestations.

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