Sentences with phrase «shot in the arm today»

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) received a huge shot in the arm today thanks to Russian internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner, who will devote $ 100 million to a much beefed - up 10 - year effort to detect signals from other technological civilizations in the universe.

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Metropolitan police commissioner Ian Blair today unveiled a new temporary taskforce in response to the shootings and said there would «be an increase in intelligence - led armed interventions and high visibility policing in certain locations».
A shot in the arm for the commercial vehicle sector's drive to improve standards is announced today at the 2008 Commercial Vehicle Show.
(In fact, today's vaccine entails four shots, and not particularly deep in the armIn fact, today's vaccine entails four shots, and not particularly deep in the armin the arm.)
Today's update is pretty solid — we have new shots from oh - so - very - anticipated games like Diablo III, the recently renamed F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway which finally went gold this week by the way.
Canada's top court earlier today dismissed a leave to appeal application in Quizno's Canada Restaurant Corp. v. 2038724 Ontario Ltd., giving a shot in the arm to a class action lawsuit filed by former restaurant franchisees who say they were overcharged for food and supplies.
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