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The second task was to catch two man-eating vultures of enormous size that were posing an equal threat to the neighborhood, again without use of any devices.
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The task of drawing the components were complicated by the complex angles involved in the design and the degree of precision required: the position of rivet holes were specified to within 0. 1 mm ( 0. 04 in ) and angles worked out to one second of arc.
The time it would take to write such a number also renders the task implausible: if a person can write two digits per second, it would take around about 1. 51 years, which is about 1. 1 times the age of the universe, to write a googolplex.
The task passed to Alexis Tsipras, leader of the SYRIZA ( the second largest party ) who was also unable to form a government.
Verifying this relationship throughout the orbital cycle, however, required very extensive calculation ; to simplify this task, by late 1602 Kepler reformulated the proportion in terms of geometry: planets sweep out equal areas in equal times — Kepler's second law of planetary motion.
As a second example, medical diagnosis viewed in terms of rules ( e. g., MYCIN ) looks substantially different from the same task viewed in terms of frames ( e. g., INTERNIST ).
An early description of the system shows how these questions were answered in the task at hand, supplying the second layer of commitment:
In the expanded second version of the poem, the Sampo is forged by Ilmarinen, a legendary smith, as a task set by the Mistress of Pohjola in return for her daughter's hand.
For example, if the processing task consists of adding digits, then having to add another digit every half second places a higher cognitive load on the system than having to add another digit every two seconds.
The American Psychiatric Association released its second task force report in 1990 where specific details on the delivery, education, and training of ECT were documented.
Darius died while in the process of preparing a second army to invade the Greek mainland, leaving to his son the task of punishing the Athenians, Naxians, and Eretrians for their interference in the Ionian Revolt, the burning of Sardis and their victory over the Persians at Marathon.
Darius began preparations for a second force which he would command, instead of his generals ; however, before the preparations were complete, Darius died, thus leaving the task to his son Xerxes.
One group of children saw the machine do the task, and a second group saw a human do the task.
After task force reports were submitted to the White House, Moyers began a second round of review.
Either way, he was given the task of rebuilding the Temple in the second year of the reign of Darius I ( 520 BC ), along with the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak.
This means an SDR could change transmission protocols and frequencies in one fiftieth of a second, probably not an intolerable interruption for that task.
Heracles placed it under a great rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Elaius ( Kerenyi 1959: 144 ), and dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood, and so his second task was complete.
Anna Snitkina, a stenographer who would soon become his second wife, was a great help for Dostoyevsky during this difficult task.
The first constraint requires that every agent is assigned to exactly one task, and the second constraint requires that every task is assigned exactly one agent.
However, finding this second cycle does not seem to be an easy computational task.
Construction of the second phase of the project, which will involve making the South Forty-Foot Drain navigable from Donington to Guthram Gowt, where a connection with the River Glen will be made, has been delayed by the change in the economic climate, and the complexity of the task.
Smith was named as Parliamentarian of the year twice ; the first time in November 1986 for his performances during the Westland controversy, during which Leon Brittan resigned and the second was in November 1989 for taking Nigel Lawson to task over the state of the economy and over his difficult relationship with Sir Alan Walters, the Prime Minister's Economic Adviser.
His second premiership was short and frustrating, and Russell failed in his great ambition of expanding the franchise-a task that would be left to his Conservative successors, Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.
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The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.
A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.
Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.
The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.
His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.
One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.
The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.
Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.
The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.
Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
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Rockies second baseman Clint Barmes, playing in, made a miraculous over the shoulder diving catch after a long run, and doubled off Albert Pujols, who thought the ball would drop and was nearly at third base, to end the game.
It was Griese's last pass of the game and only Warfield's second, and last, catch of the game.
Then after Dallas ' Dennis Thurman recovered an onside kick at 2: 19, Drew Pearson caught 2 passes for gains of 22 and 25 yards ( the second catch on 4th down and 18 ) as the Cowboys drove 52 yards in 9 plays to score on Staubach's 4-yard touchdown pass to Butch Johnson.
Irvin also became the second player, after Washington Redskins wide receiver Ricky Sanders in Super Bowl XXII, to catch two touchdowns in a single quarter.
Watters also became the second running back to catch 2 touchdown passes in a game, matching Craig.
In the second quarter, Neil O ' Donnell's controversial 5-yard touchdown pass to Kordell Stewart gave Pittsburgh a 10-6 halftime lead ( replays showed that Stewart stepped on the end line before making the catch, which would have made him ineligible ).
Bailey attempted to make a diving catch, but the pass was batted away at the last second by Randy Fuller and ruled incomplete.
However, the show did not catch on and the second season was not commissioned.
A passed ball may be scored when a runner on first, second, or third base reaches the next base on a bobble or missed catch by the catcher, or when the batter-runner reaches first base on an uncaught strike three ( see also Strikeout ).
Mays ' fly was hit to deep right center, and as both Mantle and DiMaggio converged to make the catch, DiMaggio called for it at the last second, causing Mantle to suddenly stop short as his cleats caught a drainage cover in the outfield grass.
Assuming that the balls travel at a constant velocity and the pitcher is stationary, the man will catch one ball every second.
In the novel, Lora May ( not Lora Mae ) is less a gold digger than a woman who has always been dominated by her wealthy husband ; Rita is trying to succeed in a second marriage with a man she has never felt passionate about ; and Deborah is a plain and quiet ex-spinster whose " catch " of a husband has been disappointed in her lack of success in society.
His catch in the first innings equalled Border's 156 and another in the second made him the sole owner of the record.
The Cutting Halo does have drawbacks, however ; a Baltan alien was able to deflect a Halo with his barrier, Gubira was lucky enough to catch a second Halo on his nose rather than be sliced by it, and Keelar was just as lucky to catch a third Halo with his tail.
Lloyd made 90 in the second innings as Lancashire declared on 305, with Gower taking one catch to dismiss Jack Simmons for 17.
* April 13-David Crosby is arrested on drug charges for the second time in three weeks when Dallas police catch him preparing cocaine backstage before a show.
The song did not catch fire in the U. S. but was a major hit in England, where it charted a second time in 1963 after being covered by Liverpool beat band Buddy Britten and the Regents, also appearing in instrumental form on The Shadows ' debut LP.
The Monarchs would catch fire in the playoffs, once again sweeping both Houston and then top seeded LA to reach the Finals for the second straight season.
A helicopter, with a second helicopter as a backup, was then to attempt to catch the capsule by its parachute on the end of a five-meter hook.
Wiseman's study of the Genesis colophons, sometimes described as the Wiseman hypothesis, has a detailed examination of the " catch phrases " mentioned above that were used in literature of the second millennium BC and earlier in tying together the various accounts in a series of tablets.
In the 1500 m, his second event, he could have done better, but started his final sprint to the finish line too late to catch the two leading Swedes, who finished narrowly ahead of him.
Another states that he stole two bases on a single pitch, which is difficult but feasible if a catcher making the throw to second made a mediocre throw and had a shortstop unable to catch the runner at third with a throw.
In one especially infamous incident, on June 18, 1977, in the middle game of what would prove to be a three-game series sweep by the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Martin pulled Jackson off the field ( replacing him with Paul Blair ) in mid-inning for failing to hustle and catch a shallow outfield fly ball by Jim Rice, allowing Rice to reach second base.
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