Several price indices point to stabilising house values, which should buoy up property-tax revenues and education budgets.

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As the buoy moves up and down on the waves, that mechanical energy is turned into electrical energy.

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He tied up to the buoy and went to sleep, believing that he would not wake up.

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It makes up the data buoy component of the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology.

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Within the rich world, the growing transatlantic growth divide has helped buoy the dollar versus the euro: it is up by more than 5% from its lows in November.

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And already Facebook, for one, is putting up impressive numbers on mobile ads, helping buoy its shares in recent weeks.

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Strong margin potential should buoy some large department stores as well, even in what's shaping up to be an average overall season.

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According to Teruyuki Kato, the project's leader, this arrangement can measure a buoy's vertical motion with an accuracy of a few centimetres, which will pick up dangerous tsunamis in the open ocean where they are mere ripples on the surface (they rear up into killer waves only when they reach the shallows).

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