• The Osprey's tiltrotor technology makes it the world's only transport plane capable of taking-off and landing vertically and converting in-flight to fly at speeds comparable to conventional turbo-props.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Thanks to this sustained investment, myriad engineering challenges have been overcome that previously precluded a single aircraft design from taking-off and landing like helicopters and flying horizontally like conventional airplanes.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • But when get tired -- and you will -- when you start to think about taking a day off -- and you will -- I just want you to remember that what we do for the next 22 days will absolutely make the difference between waking up the day after Election Day and wondering, could I have done more, or feeling the promise of four more years.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • The U.S. also argued in favor of governments taking a hands-off approach to the Internet.

    CNN: U.S. refuses to sign UN Internet treaty

  • And Drudge and some of the other bloggers, you know, played this all clearly she's taking off - is this a swipe at Hillary?

    NPR: Latino Bloggers Watch 2008 Candidates Closely

  • The site currently hosts 5, 000 courses, each a mix of video, audio and PowerPoint that users follow along with note-taking software off to the side.

    FORBES: Excel vs. AI: Udemy Vies For A Chunk Of The $3.9 Trillion Education Market

  • Intel's microprocessors were then taking off--and investors were looking to knock out Intel with a new chip, even one as crazy as a rat smell center.

    FORBES: Touchy Touchy

  • Since the late 1940s, when an American journalist, Alfred Winslow Jones, began taking off-setting positions in shares to hedge market risk, New York City and (more recently) a swathe of leafy suburbs radiating from Greenwich, Connecticut, have been the centre of what became the hedge-fund world.

    ECONOMIST: Hedge funds

  • She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, rejoined Summers as part of the Clinton administration, and was recruited by Google's Schmidt to join Google in 2001, when the company was just taking off -- a process she drove by improving the reach of AdWords and AdSense, two of Google's major moneymakers.

    CNN: Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg suddenly in crossfire

  • Cisco offered to pay one-third of salary, plus full health care and options-vesting, to laid-off workers taking jobs at not-for-profit organisations.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate downsizing in America

  • Eyewitnesses and residents described their community -- so accustomed to military planes taking off near their homes -- suddenly taking a surreal turn for the worse when the jet fell out of the sky and spewed its fuel, a possible maneuver to minimize the inevitable fire upon crashing.

    CNN: Navy jet has 'catastrophic mechanical malfunction,' hits apartments in Virginia

  • The 63-year-old Fossett disappeared September 3rd after taking off in a single-engine plane from a Nevada airstrip.

    NPR: Annapolis Peace Conference Begins

  • But over the past few years, offbeat smaller-scale works have been taking off, thanks largely to digital-distribution platforms that give a broader audience access to them.

    WSJ: Gaming's Art-House Hits

  • But Steyn had deceived the right-hander by taking the pace off the delivery, and Bopara tamely inside-edged onto his stumps.

    BBC: South Africa crush sorry England

  • It sends learning rates (both individual and corporate) shooting through the knee of the curve like an F-16 taking off.

    FORBES: Woody and the Dow

  • That plane also was Flight 1549 -- also taking off from LaGuardia to Charlotte, North Carolina, but on January 13.

    CNN: Plane in Hudson River had engine type that drew FAA scrutiny

  • But the British Liver Trust said people should follow its recommendations throughout the year, including taking 2-3 days off alcohol every week.

    BBC: File photo of a person drinking a bottle of beer

  • On discovering these problems, Oxford says, it faced an unpleasant choice between raising premiums more than expected or taking a big write-off.

    ECONOMIST: Oxford Health Plans

  • Taking away the one-off boost from the Olympics, the figures suggest that the UK economy was broadly flat in the second half of the year.

    BBC: Straws of hope from GDP

  • We're conserving it - by taking off any harmful pollutants.

    BBC: Rebecca Fountain in Bath

  • Gerrard was allowed time and space with the ball in midfield and he used it to telling effect as he slid a ball through to Torres, who took a lovely first touch and held off Gary Caldwell before catching Al-Habsi off guard by taking his shot early to find the bottom corner.

    BBC: Fernando Torres puts Liverpool ahead at Wigan

  • After taking off several months to deal with his off-course marital problems, he finished a surprising fourth at the Masters.

    FORBES: Golf Hopes Tiger's On The Tube This Weekend

  • But he's just the latest in a long line of big-time Republicans taking off.

    CNN: Jonathan Karl

  • Is there a trade-off between taking advantage of good times and providing shock absorbers for bad ones?

    ECONOMIST: Globalisation

  • Taking off from turn-of-the century France, with "petticoat pioneer" Alice Guy who saw beyond the camera's scientific uses.

    CNN: March on The Screening Room

  • England had done well enough with the ball, keeping the hosts to 222-7 off their 50 overs with Harmison taking 2-38.

    BBC: England collapse to heavy defeat

  • At present the county council runs 45, 000 lights and so far 14 parish councils have expressed an interest in taking part in the switch-off.

    BBC: Somerset street lamp plan 'could save council ?120,000'

  • Doyle missed the conversion and was substituted soon after for Peter Stringer, the all-action O'Leary shifting to stand-off and taking over the kicking duties.

    BBC: Ospreys 21-25 Munster

  • My children were so obsessed that they had their baby sitter also sit the Tamagotchi when they were off taking ice-skating lessons, or whatever.

    WSJ: The Evocative Power of Toys

  • Gatland took the bold decision to make wholesale substitutions, taking off both half-backs along with his loose-head, his hooker and captain and number eight Ryan Jones.

    BBC: Gatland promises more tinkering

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