In 1996, China carried out a nuclear explosion at its Lop Nor nuclear testing ground measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale.
Chess, with its great beauty, layered strategies and psychological gambits, was the testing ground to resolve this issue.
The link to Discover is on the company's testing ground site, buried at the bottom of eBay's home page.
The Republican candidates are heading to their next testing ground, in New Hampshire, and I won't be far behind them.
The Bangladesh business also function as a testing ground for product innovation.
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In Europe, likewise, a more highly developed wireless market is proving to be a testing ground for advertising, with U.S. agencies leading the way.
The Republican Party used the election as a key testing ground for a strategy that's expected to be deployed in several districts next fall.
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It's a sign of just how far technology--and capitalism--have come that space is evolving from a testing ground for rival superpowers into a billionaire's playground.
The testing ground for his drive for accountability will be education.
Ronald van Slot, the CEOof Albert Heijn, is working on a series of pilot stores in the Netherlands, a testing ground for new corporate-wide concepts at Ahold.
And if CES can be regarded as a sort of testing ground for those far-off conceptual products like the foldable display, crowdfunding has that very thing built-in.
This punk bar is a major testing ground for local bands, and a great place to enjoy live rock, punk and ska music, as well as cheap drinks.
Kenya, with eight million without access to proper sanitation but a university filled with bright and eager minds to help solve the problem, was an ideal testing ground.
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These walls were a testing ground where Aalto experimented with different textures, materials and designs, playing with brick, stone and ceramic swatches and setting them against various finishes and ornamental plants.
South African politicians insist that they are worried about the long-term cost and efficacy of such drugs, and fret that western drug makers may use the country as a testing ground for markets elsewhere.
According to Nutella project manager Franco Nicola, the company uses that page as a testing ground and catalyst for global strategy that it then translates into local campaigns on its large national pages, which while smaller add up to millions more followers.
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"Obliging so many of their customers to go through the lengthy Ombudman process to have their complaints resolved suggests that our UK banks use the Ombudsman process as a "testing ground" to see if their customers are prepared to go the distance, " he said.
It is also a fair testing-ground of South Africa's shifting ethnic snobberies.
Yet though the frontiers of health-care policy have been extended, making Latin America a testing-ground for reform worldwide, not all the arguments have been settled.
Mass Effect 3 was a great testing-ground for a more active consumer base, and no matter how this all shakes out, I think this experience has been a good one for gamers and the industry.
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ViaSat, on the other hand, can do much of its service testing on the ground, using that fairly ordinary Ford van pictured just above.
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Innovations that reduce operating costs and meet the sustainability goals outlined by President Obama for federal agencies (more on this below) are deployed by the GSA. Technologies proven effective in earlier rounds of Green Proving Ground testing, for instance, are being installed as part of building retrofits funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Equipment works differently in the space environment than it does on the ground, so even equipment that is well tested for ground use will need testing for space use.
But he justified the extra spending on the ground that the department was introducing testing, transparency and accountability.
As a result, the project focuses on atmospheric measurements that support advanced optics testing on planned conventional world-class, ground-based telescopes.
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Providing ground conditions do not become too testing and despite slight concerns over the four-and-a-half mile distance, Forest Gunner will take his place in a race watched by an estimated global audience of 500 million TV viewers.
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On Friday, I was in Boston -- that's good news. (Applause.) On Friday, I was in Boston, where workers will soon be breaking ground on a new Wind Technology Testing Center that will allow researchers in the United States to test the world's newest and largest wind turbine blades for the very first time.
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Earlier testing also revealed problems with a Federal Aviation Administration ground-proximity warning system.
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