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Astronomical Unit

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The mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit), approximately 149,600,000 kilometres (symbol AU), used to measure distances in the solar system.

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Lamb added that if the Lib Dems were part of the next government,"we would go further and introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol, subject to the outcome of the legal challenge in Scotland.

Dr Mark Porter, leader of Britain's doctors, backed Mann's call for a 50p minimum unit price and called for a total ban on the advertising of alcohol to reduce consumption.

"We no longer wanted to be the place, the repository where those data lived, because we couldn't guarantee that they were methodologically rigorous enough for us to actually publish," said Erica L Smith, chief of BJS's law enforcement statistics unit.

David Cameron has appointed the journalist Camilla Cavendish as the head of the No 10 policy unit.

"I have to find Laust," concludes Peter, little knowing he is nearby with the rest of his unit.

Priority should therefore be: end the dock strike as quickly as possible, so that the coal dispute can be played as long as possible," advised Peter Gregson, head of the Cabinet Office civil contingencies unit.

Leon Lotz was once a member of the Koevoet – "crowbar" in Afrikaans – a paramilitary police unit created by South Africa's apartheid regime to root out guerrillas in what is now Namibia.

Pro-Russia forces were already in parts of the city and Sardaryen's unit had exchanged close-quarters machine gun fire with rebels, he said, cutting the conversation short when mortar fire began landing nearby.

Sergei Golovkin, head of the Maltese government's wild-bird regulation unit, said there was "an element of hypocrisy" in international criticism.

A unit led by a policeman called Bob Lambert deployed officers to spy on peaceful activists.

Michael Bell, vice-president of Intel's new devices unit, said: "We believe wearable technology will take off as it represents who you are and how you want to be seen".

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