The 25-year-old Brighton woman, who had arranged to meet a friend on the seafront, was hit in the face with an object as she tried to pass the crowds.

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In a famous analogy, the economist John Maynard Keynes once likened the stock market to a beauty contest in which the object is to vote not for the prettiest face but for the face that the majority of voters will consider the prettiest.

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Shale-gas producers also face opposition from greens, who object to the industry's heavy water usage and a small risk that fracking could lead to contamination of aquifers and even to earthquakes.

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The US delegation's decision not to object to the Palestinian draft, as well its silence in the face of Iran's rejection of a clause in the conference declaration that mentioned the Holocaust, show the US did not join the planning session to change the tenor of the conference.

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If you want to demonstrate interest, first focus your torso on the object of desire, and then your face and eyes.

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He said the numerous lacerations to her face had been caused by "blunt force trauma" inflicted using an "irregular shaped object".

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Additional competitions to generate ideas for barcode scanning and face-object recognition, and to develop wireframes, a screen design, a system architecture, and more for the ISS FIT app will wrap up by late May.

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