Word: developable
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...take control of TNK-BP. Given the acrimony between BP and its partners, it's not hard to see why the Brits might welcome Gazprom. Likewise, Gazprom may be more attuned to the benefits of having a foreign partner with deep pockets and a long-term outlook. To help develop a vast gas field in the Barents Sea, Gazprom teamed up with Norwegian oil firm StatoilHydro and French giant Total last year, indicating there's still an openness to such partnerships, even as Russia gains confidence in its ability to fly solo. Moreover, Moscow is under pressure to reverse...
Emissions reductions beyond 2016 are not yet defined, but Faust called the 30 percent target an "initial short-term goal," indicating that the University will develop plans for further reductions beyond that date...
Like a coder, Wroblewski set to work trying to understand the elements of narrative structure from experienced writers at school, and endlessly hacked his manuscript. "You develop a lot of habits when you write software that are helpful in writing novels," he says. "One of them is simply holding in your mind a very large, complicated structure of some kind. A complex set of moving parts." Likewise, he usability-tested his manuscript, debugging it by talking "some poor slob into reading it and telling me which parts worked and which didn't." Over a decade, he wrote eight drafts. Only...
...same could be said of the $63 million push by the European Commission (E.C.) to develop so-called smart fabrics and interactive textiles. Though the technology was pioneered in the U.S., the Europeans have taken the reins in a bid to revitalize their traditional-textile industry, which has been hammered by Asian competition. "We want to develop state-of-the-art know-how that can't be found in Asia," says Andreas Lymberis, a scientific officer with the E.C. who has championed smart textiles. "Our purpose is to create a new market...
...dividing along ideological lines. Of the 15 cases in which the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed briefs this year, 80% were decided by 7-2 or higher, and a third were unanimous. Roberts told me that he thinks that bipartisan agreement in the less visible business cases can help develop a "culture and an ethos that says, 'It's good when we're all together.'" A sign of Roberts' success in putting his stamp on the court: he was in the majority in 90% of the cases this term, more frequently than any other Justice...