Sentence examples for pss from inspiring English sources

"Basically, before it was pss and after it was ktsch-h-h-h-h," Christophe Cauvy said.

It was rapidly adopted, with British Telecom offering a data service called Packet SwitchStream (PSS).

From the homecare schemes run by the British Red Cross, which prevent hospital admissions and ambulance call-outs in 75% of cases, to the community health volunteers trained by PSS to provide peer support and advice to those with complex conditions, charities are leading the way in developing intelligent, preventative health and care services.

Rays corresponding to waves that have been reflected at the Earth's outer surface (or possibly at one of the interior discontinuity surfaces) are denoted as PP, PS, SP, PSS, and so on.

The pitch at the PSS, said to be the best in the country, may encourage both seam and spin and will almost certainly not permit a high-scoring draw.

McKesson, based in San Francisco, is offering shareholders of PSS World Medical, a medical products and services company, $29 in cash for each PSS share, 34 percent above its closing share price on Wednesday.

The detector, developed by a clutch of American universities and L3 CyTerra, a Florida firm, uses algorithms to analyse data from each detection system to determine if buried metallic objects might be part of a mine.GlobalSecurity.org, an American think-tank, reckons the AN/PSS-14 is a vast improvement over previous mine detectors and the Pentagon has promoted its use by demining organisations.

Moreover, the AN/PSS-14 requires a number of technical skills to operate which deminers with little formal education may not have, adds Mr Banks, the retired deminer.For those with big budgets, even more elaborate detectors are being developed.

Nevertheless, progress can still be slow because everything detected must be treated as a potential mine until it is dug up, be it a splinter of shrapnel or a bottle cap.Peering below groundNATO forces in Afghanistan have been using a novel landmine detector known as AN/PSS-14.

"The combination of McKesson's medical surgical business and PSS World Medical is an exciting next step in McKesson's commitment to improve business health and clinical performance across health care," McKesson's chief executive, John H. Hammergren, said in a statement.

McKesson said it planned to secure $100 million of annual cost savings by the fourth year after completing the deal to buy PSS World Medical.