• She proceeded to fairly rapidly go down the list, with minimal explanation, placing next to each item either a check (good) or a cross (bad).

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  • Congo's has a catanga cross (a large copper cross), while Equatorial Guinea has a pair of cowrie shells.

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  • In the new movie, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is a similarly elite killer, though drawing his checks from the Defense Department.

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  • Young Eliza Naumann (Flora Cross) is a champion speller.

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  • If and when a specific event occurs (e.g. 50 individuals cross a virtual line), owners can be alerted via SMS -- and, of course, they can then view only the footage pertaining to said event with merely a click.

    ENGADGET

  • In January 2014, private insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and a host of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans will be providing subsidized coverage to individuals and small businesses via state or federally-regulated exchanges established under the health law.

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  • Almost a third of all marriages involving a Hispanic or Asian partner cross racial lines (counting Hispanics as a race for this purpose).

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  • The 1880s saw a shift from Nordic skiing (cross-country skiing), to Alpine skiing (downhill skiing), because the adrenaline rush of gliding down a mountainside had more mass appeal than skiing across level terrain.

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  • According to Goodwin, a customer's checking his bank balance is a great cross-selling lead (awaiting a year-end bonus, perhaps?), and cost-conscious banks that forward callers to outsourced operators may be missing the plot.

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  • However, company internet evangelist Vint Cerf argues that Google shouldn't (and doesn't) cross a line in the sand on user anonymity.

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  • This in turn might lead the Sudanese government to renew its support for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a bizarre cross between a religious cult and a rebel movement based across the border in northern Uganda, which abducts children and makes them attack Ugandan government forces and civilians.

    ECONOMIST: Threats and excuses | The

  • Harry also appeared sans sword, but displayed a cross belt, aiguillettes (ornamental braided cords) and sword slings.

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  • An area of ground in Cornwall is being cleared ready for a 20m (66ft) Celtic cross to be put up.

    BBC: Ground is cleared for Saltash Celtic Cross

  • Each party in this community-organized Za Krizen ( following the cross ) procession is led by a cross-bearer who walks barefoot or in socks, never resting.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • Some board members are keen on a European investment-banking tie-up, perhaps with Banque Nationale de Paris, which recently took control of a rival French bank, Paribas, and which has a longstanding alliance (and small cross-shareholding) with Dresdner.

    ECONOMIST: Dresdner Bank

  • The running man returns not Jason Bourne but a new character, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), another hard-ass special-ops agent who defies his superiors and keeps on moving when they try to eliminate him, racing from continent to continent and across shantytown rooftops, through crowded marketplaces, down alleyways.

    NEWYORKER: The Bourne Legacy

  • While the definition is ever expanding, cross script scripting (XSS) attacks are generally considered a type of injection problem where malicious input is injected into an otherwise trusted web page causing an unexpected behavior such as sending data to or from an unknown third party web site (cross site).

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  • Maybe a reporter (EMPHATICALLY NOT ME) could take a bag of high-tech doodads on a cross-country flight to New Mexico or San Francisco and try them out.

    FORBES: Oh, The Humanity

  • The conference was a first of a kind Pan-regional unconference (a cross between TED and TechCrunch for the Middle East).

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  • Burgundy's growers have relegated Pinot Gris to the fringes--all but run it out of town, really--in favor of its oak-loving cousin, Chardonnay (a cross of Pinot Noir and something called Gouais Blanc).

    FORBES: Pinot Gris makes the Pinot family proud.

  • Burgundy's growers have relegated Pinot Gris to the fringes-all but run it out of town, really-in favor of its oak-loving cousin, Chardonnay (a cross of Pinot Noir and something called Gouais Blanc).

    FORBES: Pinot Gris makes the Pinot family proud.

  • The number of cars using the bridge, at 9, 000 a day, is much lower than expected because tolls are steep (SKr500 for a return journey), and cross-border traffic is building up only slowly.

    ECONOMIST: Borderless

  • The DUP's Peter Weir was speaking on a cross-party motion on emergency life support skills (ELS).

    BBC: Emergency Life Support Skills

  • St Austell Community Kitchen (STAK) opens seven days a week in High Cross Street in St Austell.

    BBC: Community kitchen celebrates its resurgence

  • After slumping to 47-4, Steven Croft (70) and Gareth Cross tried to resuscitate the innings with a fifth-wicket partnership of 63 in 13 overs.

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  • Rachel Weisz (the scientist who designs Cross's meds) puts on a wig and glasses making her look even more like a nerdy scientist and nobody at JFK airport recognizes her, even though there is an APB for a nerdy scientist out all over the East Coast.

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  • Now Europe's big mobile-phone companies are building cross-border heavyweights with a despatch rare in any European industry (see article).

    ECONOMIST: Walking on air

  • Astronomers calculated recently that there are nearly 1, 000 asteroids at least a kilometre (0.6 miles) wide which cross the Earth's path.

    BBC: You are in: Sci/Tech

  • Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership.

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  • Key titles include the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, Newsnight, noted for its in-depth analysis and robust cross-examination of senior politicians (available within a week of the UK broadcast), as well as HARDTalk, Click (a popular technology magazine show covering news and developments in consumer technology), Fast Track and Talking Movies (a guide to the best in film, from the most recent Hollywood blockbusters to ground-breaking world cinema).

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