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...craft has a 247-foot wingspan and solar panels that power the 14 propellers that keep it aloft, and Tuesday it traveled higher (96,500 feet) than any other non-rocket-powered plane. The possible uses are twofold. NASA hopes that this test will help it to design aircraft that can fly in the thin Martian atmosphere. And some entrepreneurial sorts think that eventually a network of these high-flying birds could serve as low-cost alternatives to communications satellites...
Robin Pearce, one of the HR project leaders, said the reasoning behind switching to PeopleSoft was twofold...
...role played by the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan throughout the peace process. They have traditionally created the political cover for Arafat to make compromises that his own people find unacceptable; now they're doing the opposite. The motivation of the moderate Arab leaders is twofold: To avoid falling foul of the mounting popular anger at the Israelis and Americans in their own countries and because many of them are faced with large Palestinian populations that they do not want to accommodate forever...
...purpose of the alternative senior gift is twofold. It provides people with an opportunity to come together as a class to support important causes, and it sends a message to Harvard that it has to earn our financial support and that its current policies and initiatives do not warrant the kind of gift we are being asked to give," Orr wrote in an e-mail message...
...report, which was two years in the making, outlines a twofold purpose for the new policy: to improve the quality of education at BU, and, by linking salaries to performance, to control the surging faculty payroll...