Travel in the Toposa country was dangerous without a large armed escort, and if the Ethiopians had got word of the survey they would have tried to occupy that part of the country.
His inconspicuous role on the campaign trail may be fitting, given that Mr. Duffy, if elected, would occupy an office that carries little public recognition or respect.
Therefore, although further experiments are needed to confirm this hypothesis in our study species, the allosperm of the first mate would occupy a location that is associated with greater survival, as previously shown in Cornu aspersum[ 40], and thus contribute more to fertilization than the last male's sperm (i.e., first-male sperm precedence).
Friends of Mr. Yuzhin's said that they had encouraged him in recent years to look for other work that would occupy his mind and offer him income but that he found it difficult to find the right thing.
The mayor is seeking to build a gondola that would connect downtown to a proposed ski and resort community that would occupy nearly 1,800 acres and include Malan's Basin, 1,440 acres of mountainside land owned by a Salt Lake developer, Chris Peterson, who is championing the idea.
But the $2.4 billion market (according to market researcher Dataquest) remains limited, consisting mostly of major universities, large government agencies and some giant corporations that can afford a machine capable of solving in seconds a problem that would occupy a lifetime for an individual using a calculator.
It was while researching a book published in 1997, "New American Blues: A Journey Through Poverty to Democracy," that Mr. Shorris happened upon the vocation that would occupy his last years.
While there Leibniz published in 1666 the remarkably original Dissertation on the Art of Combinations (Dissertatio de arte combinatoria), a work that sketched a plan for a "universal characteristic" and logical calculus, a subject that would occupy him for much of the rest of his life.
A computer that took advantage of the oddities of quantum physics could solve in seconds certain problems that would occupy present-day computers for billions of years.
The process of designing the individual buildings was something of a horror, since each architect had to produce a plan that would be acceptable not only to the people who ran the performing-arts organization that would occupy the building but also the organization's board of trustees, the board of Lincoln Center itself, and the city.
