• The three small black rectangles each year are the observed global temperature histories in common use.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • Mr. HARDY: If it's a weapon that is not in common use, then it can be banned.

    NPR: Supreme Court Strikes Down D.C. Handgun Ban

  • Unfortunately, for the drugs in common use, only a limited number have been studied to determine what genes are responsible.

    FORBES: The Power Of Digitizing Human Beings

  • He was the first to import television screens and cameras to communicate with the offstage band, a device now in common use.

    ECONOMIST: Gilbert Kaplan

  • Those made by his firm use advanced laser-fluorescence technology: more accurate, simpler, cheaper and more robust, he says, than the gas-chromatography apparatus in common use so far.

    ECONOMIST: Doom and gloom are not universal

  • Revolutionary at the time, RoundUp came to dominate the market because it was highly effective but broke down quickly, making it less toxic than other herbicides in common use.

    FORBES: Survival Instinct: Businesses Must Watch Out For Mother Nature

  • But by the mid-1800s North America was in common use for mere geography, and by roughly 1900 the sheer weight of the much enlarged United States had enabled it to annex America as its own.

    ECONOMIST: Johnson

  • Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion said that citizens were guaranteed a right to keep firearms that were in common use in their homes for self-defense, but that the government could pass reasonable regulations concerning firearms and ammunition.

    WSJ: Jeffrey Scott Shapiro: A Gun Ban That Misfired

  • There are various advantages cited for this type of reactor, including the claim that it can be stopped easily if things get out of hand, and that it produces less long-lived nuclear waste than the uranium-fuelled fission reactors that are currently in common use.

    FORBES: Thorium Nuclear Power -- A Lesson From Norway

  • Foster would learn from those too, but his immersion in common language and use translates into a feeling of rightness, which works as completely in small structures as in large.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • The one factor they all have in common is excessive khat use, which leads us to believe there is huge evidence of medical harm.

    BBC: Somalis urge government to ban khat

  • Heller created a panic among gun-control advocates because it condoned the ownership of semiautomatic handguns, which are among the most common firearms in use but also the target of many restriction efforts.

    WSJ: Jeffrey Scott Shapiro: A Gun Ban That Misfired

  • The only common use in cardiology for MRI scanners, which cost millions of pounds each to install, is in the diagnosis of babies with congenital heart defects, where exact details of the layout of the tiny heart are vital to successful surgery.

    BBC: angiography300

  • "For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs, " said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

    CNN: Toxic chemicals finding their way into the womb

  • One, Mars Climate Orbiter, had a particularly humiliating crash, because the fault lay with a group of engineers who, in defiance of common sense, had continued to use imperial units of measurement in their calculations when all around had adopted the metric system.

    ECONOMIST: Exploring Mars

  • But what many projects have in common is the music they use Gregorian chant and Mozart.

    ECONOMIST: Music as healing

  • Although these sets of tools differ in important respects, they have one aspect in common: They all make use of the asset side of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The reason why possession of small quantities of cocaine or ecstasy is not treated as a serious offence is because, like it or not, the casual use of these drugs is now as common as use of cannabis became in the 1970s.

    ECONOMIST: Daft about drugs

  • Further, Europe is especially important to the platinum market since diesel-powered vehicles are popular on the continent and this requires the use of platinum, whereas gasoline-powered cars more common in the U.S. and China can use less-expensive palladium.

    FORBES: FOCUS: Platinum Slides To Five-Week Low As Other Metals Fall, Amplats Workers Return

  • Sarkeesian wants to comment on how women are represented in games and point out the common use of destructive tropes.

    FORBES: Feminist Blogger Is a Victim of a Vicious Videogame Retaliation

  • We share your sorrow and a resolve to stand with you in our common fight against those who use terrorism for their political goals.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The strategy says the government will stand up for "mainstream" values by strengthening national identity and celebrating what people in England have in common and urges local communities to use events like the Big Lunch or the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and inter-faith activities to bring together people of different backgrounds.

    BBC: Editors urged to help tackle online hate crime

  • In June, education ministers will meet in Brasilia to discuss the use of new technology in schools, development of common school testing systems, and teacher exchanges.

    ECONOMIST: Sound curriculum: but can the Americas put it into effect?

  • The jury soon became standard in criminal and civil cases at common law, and its use spread with the British empire, nowhere more so than in the American colonies.

    ECONOMIST: American juries

  • Their use is now common in America when the financial stakes are high or when the criminal defendants are rich.

    ECONOMIST: American juries

  • The kind of privacy that the Berkeley team investigated is the kind that young people have in common with their elders: information-use privacy.

    FORBES: Berkeley says young people DO care about privacy

  • It was the tou the wide, well-honed, flat-edged whacker of a knife that Chinese cooks used for everything from butchering to dicing and fine slicing and the chopstick, which, in the Song era, came into common use.

    NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own

  • Two important things happened on the wireless Internet front last week, both of which will, in time make wireless Internet use far more common than it already is.

    FORBES: Wireless Standards On The Move

  • "As the public become more educated about what's going on in medical testing, most people use their common sense that this is something that should be encouraged'" Mr Garnier said.

    BBC: UK demo against Huntingdon Life Sciences

  • The practice of jumping parties from election to election is so common in Pakistan that a term is in use: "lota, " which means a round water jug with a pointy snout.

    WSJ: Pakistani Candidates Hop Parties With Little Resistance

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