It was basic and sparsely furnished, but contained everything I needed for a comfortable stay: a private bathroom with hot and cold water, a bed, air-con, and even a mini fridge and a safe.

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However, most of the concrete problems between the two countries, such as disagreements over sea-bed exploration rights and air space, remain unresolved.

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The researchers used a biological air chamber to replicate conditions in one- and two-bed hospital rooms.

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If you hear the radio and TV ads for this bed--a remote-controlled air mattress--you can be forgiven for thinking its chief aim is to save marriages.

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His two-bed house, with a fridge and two air-conditioners, is luxurious by the standards of most of his compatriots but would be thought modest in the West.

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One of the biggest undertakings would be a 17, 800-bed Olympic Village, designed in an "open-air museum" concept, which would "be fully financed and guaranteed by the City of Madrid" to ensure "minimum risk factor, " according to the city's application, submitted in February.

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Only when I developed empathy for my local employees, thanks to numerous stomach conditions, nasty bed bug bites, and asthma from indoor air pollution (from cook-stove smoke), did I begin to make some progress at work.

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