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Oh, yeah, you simply pre-position it with another similar lander that just hauls fuel to the surface or you build a giant and costly infrastructure to refine the fuel from lunar regolith.
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The Tornado does not need to "poise" on the horizon on board a carrier, with all the inherent notice required to pre-position and the need for layered defence.
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In FY 2010, USAID provided $1,147,815 to purchase and pre-position commodities in Haiti for the 2010 hurricane season.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Tracking the Trail of Cholera in Artibonite Georgianne Nienaber 2010
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SAR coordinators have decided to have the Jayhawk pre-position and refuel aboard the Navy ship Trenton, in case the AMVER vessels cannot perform the rescues.
OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010
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In FY 2010, USAID provided $1,147,815 to purchase and pre-position commodities in Haiti for the 2010 hurricane season.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Tracking the Trail of Cholera in Artibonite Georgianne Nienaber 2010
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In FY 2010, USAID provided $1,147,815 to purchase and pre-position commodities in Haiti for the 2010 hurricane season.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Tracking the Trail of Cholera in Artibonite Georgianne Nienaber 2010
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A preposition must by definition be associated with a noun, and it is the separation of the preposition from the noun that offends those who see in the very name ‘pre-position’ the need, which cannot be avoided in Latin languages (or indeed in German), to place it immediately before the noun.
English in the Times 2008
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A preposition must by definition be associated with a noun, and it is the separation of the preposition from the noun that offends those who see in the very name ‘pre-position’ the need, which cannot be avoided in Latin languages (or indeed in German), to place it immediately before the noun.
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A preposition must by definition be associated with a noun, and it is the separation of the preposition from the noun that offends those who see in the very name ‘pre-position’ the need, which cannot be avoided in Latin languages (or indeed in German), to place it immediately before the noun.
English in the Times 2008
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Most of the bays contained no stretchers—we would use what the patient came in on—and we physicians would pre-position ourselves at the upper-right-hand side of the bay where the stretcher would be parked headfirst.
Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010
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