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But unfortunately, CCAMLR, the regional commission in charge of conserving and managing fish stocks and other living marine resources, is unfortunately starting to give in to fishing interests and has authorized the expansion of toothfish fisheries in the region.
And these telescopes, among other things, they're being used to study how the expansion of the universe is changing with time.
He didn't know about the expansion of the universe.
It means an expansion in the range of scientific problems we can hope to attack at all.
It will leave us no further along in the general expansion of humanity into space than we were 50 years ago.
But even so, there was one thing that everyone was certain of: The expansion must be slowing down.
That, much as the gravitational pull of the Earth slows the ascent of an apple tossed upward, the gravitational pull of each galaxy on every other must be slowing the expansion of space.
Now let's fast-forward to the 1990s when those two teams of astronomers I mentioned at the outset were inspired by this reasoning to measure the rate at which the expansion has been slowing.
And they did this by painstaking observations of numerous distant galaxies, allowing them to chart how the expansion rate has changed over time.
Here's the surprise: They found that the expansion is not slowing down.
You see, we learned that our universe is not static, that space is expanding, that that expansion is speeding up and that there might be other universes all by carefully examining faint pinpoints of starlight coming to us from distant galaxies.
Or larger, what's the role of dark matter in the expansion of the universe?
In the last few years there's been a great expansion in using DNA technology to study the microbes in and on people.
You had water, sewer networks that allowed for this kind of unchecked expansion.
Unfortunately, what you hold in your hand has not only enabled incredible technological development and industrial expansion, but it has also contributed to unimaginable human suffering.
Acumen's been working with ABE for the past year, year and a half, both on looking at a new business plan, and what does expansion look like, helping with management support and helping to do term sheets and raise capital.
And because it has two different coefficients of expansion, when heated, one side will expand faster than the other and result in a curling action.
Now, 95 percent of the guys that I was locked up with had been drug dealers on the outside, but when they talked about what they did, they talked about it in a different jargon, but the business concepts that they talked about weren't unlike those that you'd learn in a first year MBA class at Wharton: promotional incentives, you never charge a first-time user, focus-grouping new product launches, territorial expansion.
The question is, if this has happened, what has powered that expansion?
In the 1980s, the global expansion of the talent pool continued.
So I envision that we're going to see a great expansion of indications of this technique.
And so texting actually is evidence of a balancing act that young people are using today, not consciously, of course, but it's an expansion of their linguistic repertoire.
But I see that people are coming along, that the audiences, paradoxically, are much more responsive and much more understanding of this expansion of design than some of my colleagues are.
And Gallery One is an interesting project because it started with this massive, $350 million expansion for the Cleveland Museum of Art, and we actually brought in this piece specifically to grow new capacity, new audiences, at the same time that the museum itself is growing.
After this big expansion, you've seen no net increase in injuries, and so there is something to that axiom that there is safety in numbers.
In about five billion years, our sun will become a red giant, as large as the Earth's orbit, and our Earth will be kaput, and in a thousand billion years, if dark energy keeps on fueling space expansion at the present rate, you will not even be able to see as far as your toes, because everything around you expands at a rate faster than the speed of light.
It's this expansion of room to make differences.
They give the cause of this accelerated expansion a name, and they call it dark energy.
But with the expansion of literacy and travel, people started to sympathize with wider and wider circles, the clan, the tribe, the nation, the race, and perhaps eventually, all of humanity.
One movement for the expansion of rights inspires another because the logic is the same, and once that's hammered home, it becomes increasingly uncomfortable to ignore the inconsistency.
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