Similarly, NASA technologies, though designed for space applications, are often modified and transformed to go into everyday products used on Earth.
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In the end, though, there is another reason, too: it is that attempts to regulate financial companies, though designed to make things clearer, can actually end up making them fuzzier.
This step-by-step negotiation preparation process, though designed to help defense department agencies purchase everything from a gross of grenades to a dozen F-15s, is every bit as useful to the woman negotiating health care services for her family, extended family, friends, and, in my case, an impoverished ex-husband.
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The system is not foolproof, though it is designed to be nearly so.
Decaying generator tubes helped push San Onofre's Unit 1 reactor into retirement in 1992, even though it was designed to run until 2004.
Opportunity has been trundling around Mars ever since, though it was designed for only a ninety-day mission. (Spirit got stuck in a sand trap in 2009 and quit transmitting nearly a year later.) It never found the lake bed, or organic material of any kind.
Though these devices are designed for first-time buyers, they present an experience that is ironically hostile to a potentially hesitant newbie.
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Hard drive-based players can still skip, though they're designed to resist it--and in our experience are usually quite successful in that endeavor.
All your old applications look and feel the same in this retro world, though tapping on buttons designed for a mouse can be tricky.
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Though the WaveRider was designed to reach Mach 6, or six times the speed of sound, program officials were satisfied with its performance in the latest test.
For years, dietetic candy tasted as though it had been designed as a torture device by the Swiss Chocolate Police: dry, dull and about as exciting as chewing on bark.
Though Acomplia was initially designed as a weight-loss drug, Sanofi researchers had found by 2001 that the affected receptors play a role in how the body processes fat.
Unlike U.S. postal facilities, shootings at U.S. military facilities are rare, even though these bases are designed to train recruits to kill others quickly, because the bases are also replete with people who wield guns proficiently and defensively.
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Critics fear that job applicants would falsely claim badges, though the technology is being designed to prevent that.
There was a problem, though: European bikes were designed for European roads.
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Run scans with your legitimate anti-virus and anti-spyware solutions on your PC (remember though that these installations are designed to work around anti-virus before you get too frustrated).
Officials say the owner of Rana Plaza illegally added three floors and allowed the garment factories to install heavy machines and generators, even though the structure was not designed to support such equipment.
Officials say the owner of Rana Plaza illegally added three floors and allowed five garment factories in the building to install heavy machines and generators, even though the structure was not designed to support such equipment.
In the context of Quora it seems most of the experience is designed around this, though there are subtle things that make it special like the ability to provide only one answer per question.
In around two-thirds of cases, Microsoft relies on old consumer-protection and fraud laws rather than new legislation specifically designed to counter spam (though the firm supports spam laws, as they tend to eliminate legal loopholes).
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Myrna Vallejo designed the basic modern costumes (though the Bricklayer seemed unmagical, more like a plumber with a toolbox).
The programme runs every Saturday until Sunday afternoon, though activities are season dependent, and is designed for a minimum group size of 20 to 25.
Though Dr Russell's experiment had been designed mainly to look at how clouds form naturally, it paves the way for future work on geoengineering.
Regularly used aircraft routes often showcase glorious scenery, even though the Federal Aviation Administration says they are designed for safety and functionality, not for sightseeing.
The crew requested an emergency landing, which Fitzpatrick said was standard because it gives certain planes first priority, though he also noted the aircraft involved is designed to run on a single engine if necessary.
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Most importantly, though, it brings a fresh, minimal interface designed to lure away Gmail users who wouldn't have otherwise given Hotmail the time of day.
Though the speakers are hidden, the newly-designed speaker cabinet reproduces rich bass and lower midrange sounds, adding extra punch and depth to action movies, music and dialogue.
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This project is designed to serve Member States and, though their best practices, jointly understand the complex nexus between science and governance in the management of groundwater resources.
Though the speakers are hidden, the newly-designed speaker cabinet reproduces rich bass and lower midrange sounds, adding extra punch and depth to action movies, music and dialogue and producing the same bass extension as a much bigger speaker.
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