With the 2015 takeoff date looming, the Solar Impulse engineers went back to the drawing board, finally deciding on a design that added a bit of weight to get a wing that could
weather the challenges in store.
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Not exact matches
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While massive blizzards and extreme
weather in places like New York can leave hotels and airlines scrambling to alternate staff and schedules, the tourism industry
in Bali has a somewhat similar
challenge every year: Day of Silence.
It's not hard to create New Year's resolutions or annual goals for a company but the
challenge lies
in sticking to them day
in and day out, on the good days and bad days,
in nice
weather and bad
weather.
The Middle East has faced numerous economic and political
challenges in the last few years, but to its credit, it has
weathered them reasonably well.
In spite of the fact that a $ 1 - billion fund infusion from Alibaba did not materialise, its IPO plan got deferred and revenue growth slowed, Micromax has quietly
weathered the
challenges, focussing on sprucing up its 4G phone business.
Tesla stated
in the press release that «we expect Q4 deliveries and production to be at or slightly above Q3, despite Q4 being a shorter quarter and the
challenge of delivering vehicles
in winter
weather over holidays.
The winning proposal at this year's
Challenge will help communities
in Southeast Asia prepare for extreme
weather events
in the region.
Will cutting rates really boost the sectors that did much of the damage to April's GDP report like resources (can't influence commodities), utilities (can't influence
weather, with utilities output just coming off a large surge
in Jan / Feb) and manufacturing (bigger
challenges than CAD)?
The project has the
challenge of high country and
weather as well as a relatively erratic ore body
in the sense that the gold is high grade and located
in relatively narrow veins.
The only auto company that looks cheaper than GM based on this regression analysis is Ford (F), but as we'll address below, GM is
in a better position to
weather the variety of
challenges facing the auto industry today.
«Existing commercially available solutions cost tens of thousands of dollars, are bulky and mechanically complex, and lack the performance needed to unlock self - driving operation at higher speeds and
in more
challenging weather,» Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt wrote
in a blog post announcing and explaining the deal.
That means they have
weathered enormous economic and technological
challenges over the past century and are fully capable of adapting to further changes
in the banking industry.
WPX completed 10 Williston wells during the first quarter, including three wells on the Big Horn pad
in January and seven wells on the Arikara pad
in March following a variety of
weather - related
challenges.
The
challenge to technology to solve the problem of sufficient energy to power continuing increase of economic activity is complicated by the heightened concern to reduce pollution and especially to avoid disastrous changes
in weather.
To address supply chain
challenges posed by extremely perishable items such as bananas and by extremes
in climate and
weather, Class Produce maintains relationships with hundreds of growers.
We've had our raised beds for a few years now and had great luck growing
in California but the
weather in Georgia has proven to be a bit more
challenging.
The Paglione Estate Winery is located
in Ontario and the cold
weather can make growing crops a
challenge.
Taking ice cream photos is indeed
challenging in hot
weather - but the ice cream looks and sound superb - chocolate and cherries is such a great combination - esp when you have picked the cherries yourself - I wish we knew our local orchards to visit
in summer!
Cold temperatures have provided less than ideal conditions, with Vettel saying that just keeping the car on the track
in such cold
weather was a
challenge.
The fickle changes
in the
weather make the
challenge completely different depending on the time of day you're out on the course.
His next
challenge will be the World Championships
in Beijing next month with Rutherford keeping his fingers crossed for favourable
weather in which to train on his ready - made long jump pit at home.
But I must admit that I'm finding it
challenging to feel active this time of year and
in this particular
weather pattern we're
in.
Most healthy children and adolescents can safely participate
in outdoor sports and other physical activities
in a wide range of
challenging warm to hot
weather,
Starting at parent - child classes, and continuing through the school years, students are encouraged to spend time outdoors —
in all
weather conditions — to explore and to
challenge their mind and bodies.
-LSB-...] The
weather has not been very helpful for us so far with this
challenge,
in fact I haven't taken any photo's since my last post.
In a matter of weeks or months, the colic will end, and you'll have
weathered one of the first major
challenges of parenthood.»
Stachowski had the line when he
weathered a surprisingly tough
challenge in 2008 from his GOP challenger, Dennis Delano.
Cox has
weathered challenges to his leadership before, and he's not
in danger of losing his post at this moment.
Several parts of the country have been facing
challenges with water supply and
in recent times, which experts have attributed to pollution of water bodies and
weather changes.
Tasini insisted he'll
weather these
challenges and be on the ballot
in September.
I've experienced long waits
in inclement
weather and on holidays for Access - a-Ride, as well as
challenging ventures into indoor and outdoor venues and theaters to enjoy what NYC has to offer.
Farley has
weathered significant
challenges before, including one from now - mayor Brian U. Stratton
in 2000.
Carl McCall
weathered a failed gubernatorial primary
challenge from Cuomo back
in 2002 that almost cost the governor - elect his career.
Dr Narh commended the management and staff of the company for their hard work and perseverance, especially for working
in an environment that had gone through a number of
challenges and being able to
weather the storm.
SARANAC LAKE — This year's
challenging weather with warm temperatures and lack of snow provided an obstacle
in itself for contestants of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival's Arctic Golf Build - an - Obstacle Contest, organizers reported.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer,
in a statement, commended the mayor's executive budget for «enhancing our ability to
weather unforeseen future
challenges,» through new agency savings and boosted city reserves.
He was not the architect of the events that unfolded last week — opposition leaders seldom make the
weather like that — but he has become the first leading politician
in living memory to get up off his knees and
challenge the malign hold Murdoch and his acolytes have on British politics.
Campbell ends the post with a call to Burnham, Cooper and Kendall to step up to the
challenge and save the party by «showing that they too know how to make the
weather in a campaign».
Peter Goldmark, Washington's commissioner of public lands, said that beyond the
challenge in addressing the large number of incidents, «it's also the very adversarial
weather conditions that we've found ourselves
in.»
In addition to the
challenging weather, researchers have to watch out for polar bears.
Inigio - Elias: And there are
challenges in the environment because when we have
weather conditions that change suddenly they have to drop.
Manuel Cebrian, a computational social scientist now based at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
in Clayton, Australia, won that
challenge with his colleagues by using social media to hunt down 10 red
weather balloons released across the United States.
«Don't underestimate customs hassles,» warns Sanders, who
weathered his share of
challenges shipping a microscope to the jungle
in Peru.
The
challenges scientists
in the field face are myriad, including logistical and travel hurdles, dangerous
weather or animals, impenetrable forests, and thorny local politics.
The
weather — usually hot and humid — and the presence of unrelenting mosquitoes are only some of the
challenging factors to contend with
in the tropical rain forest.
Yet with the nearest emergency room 30 million miles away, and Earth - style surgical anesthetics unworkable
in microgravity, elderly astronauts would have to be freakishly sturdy to
weather the medical
challenges of the trip.
The
challenge lies
in the fact that natural variability is always a part of any extreme
weather event, so when scientists do attribution exercises, they are trying to discern the human signal out of the noise.