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Coffey said that HDS grew rapidly under Berry's tenure, adding that Mayer said "he wants to go back through and dot all the 'I's and cross all the 'T's and make everything run efficiently...
...with knocking out a $200 million AT&T communications satellite in January. Though solar storms may sound ominous, they pose no threat at all to humans -- after all, they've been happening regularly for billions of years. NASA's astronomers note that this eruption could miss our little blue dot altogether. If not, look for an enhanced aurora borealis -- the Northern Lights that create a brilliant effect in the northern skies...
...wasn't until I was assigned to Englewood that I saw how much social conditions contribute to the rise of crime," he says, describing the damaged streetlights, broken-down cars and multitude of abandoned properties that dot Englewood today...
...piece of information that entered the magazine's pages had to be factchecked, and my job--along with full-time fact-checkers--was to verify every fact in every written sentence that went into the magazine. I was to note that I had checked each word by placing a dot over it (and by placing a dot over each letter of every proper noun to show that I had verified the spelling). In an article about the construction of the Panama Canal, for example, a caption read, "A seventy-five-foot-high canal lock gate swings shut at Gatun...
...well-funded one. The U.S. Department of Transportation spends more than $1 billion a year on research and development for intelligent highway systems and improved traffic-management programs, and the Japanese may be spending even more. The U.S. government's Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act calls for the dot to develop an automated highway prototype by 2002. Japan's Intelligent Transportation System master plan calls for fully automated cars to be plying the island nation's dreadfully gridlocked roadways by the year...