Spending long periods in close quarters with others is also known to spread disease.
But, imagine a situation where you're confronted by someone in close quarters with a handgun.
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Anti-spying pro-tip: The accelerometer trick only works if the phone is in close quarters with your keyboard.
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Some of their preparation consists of scuba diving, dropping quickly out of helicopters and battling in close quarters.
There's also the reality of living in close quarters with 220 die-hard New Yorkers who've seen it all.
Moreover, working with other start-ups in close quarters pushed PlanGrid to keep up thanks to peer pressure and their internal drive.
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In short, almost anywhere copper wire is used in close quarters or for fine quality--there is a promising opportunity for the light pipe.
But Singh says that observing Welch s toughness with GE s managers in close quarters provided a model for running DLF: Think big and be a sector leader.
Team cohesion and concentration on missions would suffer if our troops had to live in close quarters with others who could be sexually attracted to them.
Mesopotamia created urban culture: Ur, Babylon, Nineveh and countless lesser-known sites are where humans first worked out ways to live together in close quarters in large numbers.
However, dogs primarily catch the virus while in close quarters with other dogs that are coughing and sneezing, says Steven Shell, head of Merck's U.S. companion animal group.
It is especially important in enclosed settings where disease droplets can easily spread to passengers sitting in close quarters, especially infants and children and those with special health care needs.
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In addition to shooting wide-angle shots in close quarters, expansive panoramas and nose-to-nose close-ups, the Olympus SP-620UZ is flexible enough to experiment with intermediate zoom settings for portraits, still-life subjects and movies.
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If you do suddenly find yourself in close quarters with one of these beasts, your best bet is to get out of the water, swimming away with smooth, even strokes that won't attract its attention.
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They have experience in close quarters, having spent two years with six other people sealed inside Biosphere 2, a research facility situated on a little over 3 acres in Arizona, in the early 1990s.
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Though the dishes are normally served with beans in Chile, they would not be included, so that the men -- who are living in close quarters -- can avoid getting intestinal gas, said Jorge Diaz, a medic involved in the miners' care.
First, the ducted fan design allows the car to achieve the speed and maneuverability of a helicopter -- 155 mph, 12, 000-foot altitude, two hours of flight time, vertical take off and landing -- but removes the dangers of exposed rotors, allowing the "car" to sidle up to buildings for rescue missions, or coexist in close quarters with other vehicles.
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The Assassin might focus on ranged weapons and become a cloaked sniper, or specialize in close-quarters attacks from concealment.
"We're trying to cut that amount of time that they had to be in those close quarters, " NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said, noting the spacecraft has a basic bathroom but little living space.
On foreign assignments too, I have seen her at close quarters in Canada, America, Singapore and Borneo.
The whole experience had a slightly surreal feel for a sport in which combat at close quarters inside and outside the ring is the norm, but one has to move with the times I guess.
According to the new series, economic activity has risen in three of the last four quarters but is still close to the minimum level reached in the second quarter of 2012.
Animals kept in close confinement, reared at close quarters, will inevitably infect one another very quickly.
Any of these problems can be dangerous in the close, confined, pressurized quarters of the space station.
Some three-quarters of the adult population are now in work, close to a record and some ten percentage points higher than in Europe.
The result is a very visually detailed film in which Eva is seen scraping red paint off her house at close quarters and facing the pain of confronting Kevin after his deed.
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By way of a rebuff to the robotic, slavish activity of their foe, they get to prove their human handiness, not least when Santos and her new pals, defying our expectation of a gargantuan nuclear strike, end up bayonetting the enemy at close quarters, as if this were a Belgian trench in 1917.
In fact this scenario of unlocked laboratories and sleeping quarters is probably as close to a global utopia as we're ever going to get.
This gap will close as quarters are announced and I believe it will play out in typical form that the bottoms-up estimates are too high and will decrease unless the worldwide economies perform better than expected.
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According to the Central Statistics Bureau, private consumption accounts for close to three-quarters of GDP, up from two-thirds in 1997.
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