This probably helps them to work out from which direction the vibrations are travelling rather as a person might stick a finger first in one ear and then in the other to work out the direction that a sound is coming from.

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They're hoping Mr Obama has waved a very big diplomatic stick in Bibi Netanyahu's general direction.

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As any portfolio manager knows, however, if you stick with a strategy long enough, eventually things will turn in your direction.

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Stick to a very stock selective plan and do not make big bets in either direction until we get more definitive clues about what direction the next leg of the market will be.

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When a grandmotherly type strolled by, propped up by an assistant and a cane, she wound up lifting her walking stick and pointed it in my direction.

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It could be a virus on a USB stick, as the Stuxnet worm showed, though it went in the other direction.

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