Lord Sainsbury and a group of biotech experts recently set off for America to find out how Britain can keep its edge.
Unlike the British and Germans with their carpet bombing of one another, the Americans put their faith in daylight precision raids and set out to pick off Japan's engineering factories one at a time.
Chanting monks led Buddhist prayers for the former king, before an artillery salute sounded out and fireworks were set off.
If you make up 15, 20, 30, 40 percent of the population, you have a reasonable chance of dominating the country, and so it's not totally irrational to set out to dominate and kill off your opponents.
Police say Myers sauntered into a barbershop Wednesday, coolly asked if the man cutting hair remembered him and then opened fire with a shotgun, the first shots in a burst of violence that would leave four dead, two critically wounded and people in this small village aching to find out what set the gunman off.
However, it's highly unlikely that the Slovenians will slip up against the minnows and Northern Ireland now look set to miss out on a play-off spot.
The sale and run-off of non-core assets, first set out in early 2009 at the start of the RBS's three-to-five-year recovery plan, meant a fifth of the balance sheet was to be non-core, and the balance sheet was to be halved in size.
X-43A will set off on its own, burning hydrogen as it streaks out across the Pacific.
In the long term, however, the five-region set-up may pay off: when these contracts run out in 2013, there will be four firms with the experience to bid for new ones at keen prices.
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Finally, Murray gathered himself and found some first serves to reel off four games in a row and serve out the set.
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Yorkshire sent in Rana Naved-ul-Hasan to open, but he was run out without facing a ball when Andrew Gale set off for a suicidal run to cover, hesitated, then went again.
This ruling set off the chain of public disclosures that led the accuser to drop out.
Sugen set out to find a druglike chemical that could to turn off the VEGF receptor in humans.
Golovin had a chance to round the match off when serving 5-4 up in the second set only to miss out.
They are flying out to Canada next month, and plan to set off in late June or early July, depending on weather conditions.
Others point out that all exploration costs can be off-set against any tax liable ones, and that a claim can go back as far as 25 years.
Her designers set out to address her pet peeves: sashes that fall off robes (hers are buttoned on like in a vintage couture jacket), pants and sleeves that are too long (hers are designed to be cuffed), and pajama bottoms with bulky ties that are uncomfortable to sleep on (hers sit below the waist and have flat fronts and elastic backs).
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Young duly whipped over the set-piece and Agbonlahor shook off Shaun Derry and converted from four yards out.
News that the dreadlocked Bronx native known as "Face" had been found to be the common denominator in numerous HIV cases, including that of a 13-year-old girl, set off a panic in the small city and sent lines for HIV testing out clinic doors.
Finally, Athens has set out to expand their local production potential by offering exploration bids off their Western coast, as well as entering into discussions with Cyprus in a bid to set up Greece as a transport hub for natural gas from the Leviathan natural gas field.
But senior ministers know it has set back their efforts to shake off the charge that they are a party of out-of-touch toffs.
While other entrepreneurs focused on using the Web to revolutionize commerce, Vignette set out early (1995) on a quicker path to profits: designing off-the-shelf software that would make all those new outlets work.
They set off from the Greenwich Meridian Line in London in 1994 and cycled through Europe before heading out over the Atlantic on a unique pedal-powered boat.
Carew then contrived to waste another opportunity to finish off Newcastle when he somehow failed to find the target after being set up by Agbonlahor six yards out.
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In the afternoon, I dug a hat out the depths of my pack, by way of formal attire, and I set off for the wedding.
Before Mr Adams set off for the Middle East Israeli officials said they would not meet him because he would not rule out meeting Palestinian militants.
The government found this out six months ago, when discontent over corruption, punitive taxes and land shortages set off uprisings in the rice-growing northern province of Thai Binh, near Hanoi.
The barrister set out how both phones were picked up by the mast around an hour before the bomb went off.
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