Even at Start-3's more modest numbers, Russia claims it would need to mount more than one warhead on some of its missiles an old cold-war practice banned under Start-2.

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And the Toshiba came in last among the three in my tests of battery life, cold start-up time and reboot time.

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By enabling increased power at low temperatures, Nanophosphate EXT is expected to substantially improve the cold-cranking capabilities of A123's lithium ion 12V Engine Start battery.

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He said the incident was probably the result of "recent weather changes we are having - particularly heavy rain fall and the start of a cold snap".

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The idea is that you flash it before a meal -- thus, informing the staff of your keen ability to use the Internet -- at which point the manager will suddenly break into a cold sweat and start nervously heaping you with extraordinary service.

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Something akin to the defense contracting boom triggered by the start of the Cold War may be in the offing, especially when a cash-strapped government needs to cut back on big-ticket hardware.

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Although no longer justified, the diesel's reputation for being slow, smelly, noisy, unreliable and difficult to start in cold weather has lingered since the 1980s, when Detroit rushed out half-baked designs in response to the oil crisis.

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In cold weather, older car engines may find it difficult to start if they are using gasoline with a higher-blend of ethanol.

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