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...Hartmann, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the hole in the center of the disk "is about the size of a planetary system" which suggests that the disk is the early stage of a solar system. The presence of planets, however, is not in any way confirmed. "We have not detected any planets directly or indirectly," Jayawardhana said...
...perplexing dining hall conversations, Dartboard had grown frustrated. The things we heard went so far as actually sitting down and going through the entire house facebook in an attempt to place each person in a rooming group and thus figure out the total number of rooming groups of every size, so as to compare this figure with the number of available rooms...
...company is currently looking for "several million" dollars of venture to finance its next round of expansion, Favarola said. Among the improvements the company hopes to make are increasing the resolution, or level of detail, of the three-dimensional projector, expanding its size to at least six inches on a side and using "multicolored light sources" to generate full-color images, he said...
...comparable to that of the banks; 2,500 credit unions and caisses populaires (Quebec credit unions) remain important retail outlets; 150 life insurance companies offer a wide range of investment vehicles; 80 mutual fund companies command 77 percent of the Canadian mutual fund market. Canadian banks, due to their size and scope, constitute five more competitors in each of these markets, not leviathans standing astride any one of them...
When American banks attempt to reach national scale in these same lines of business, their explicit intent is to be able to compete with these "monoline" companies. The banks aren't seeking gargantuan size in order to strangle any one market, but simply to keep up in all of them. The battle to be waged in the marketplace is whether consumers prefer one-stop shopping, or picking and choosing among "best of breed." That is a choice consumers should be allowed to make. To the extent that banks succeed in entering a wide range of markets, financial services will become...