• Every word is painstaking created letter-by-letter, as he stares intently at the screen, his arms at rest, his right hand displaying a 2009 Saints Super Bowl ring.

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  • This result can provide a stunningly detailed view of the genome, but this letter-by-letter approach may also sometimes result in scientists missing the forest for the trees.

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  • Lucy expected to be able to spend the rest of her days here but two weeks ago she - along with her fellow residents - was handed a letter by the owners - the Royal Bank of Scotland Care Homes Foundation - giving her three months notice.

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  • Other analysts have speculated that the company could buy up production businesses, even suggesting that Apple and ITV could settle their potential tug-of-war over the three-letter name by the simple expedient of the former buying the latter.

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  • The culprit was apparently a mix-up between the similarly pronounced cities and the three-letter code used by airlines to distinguish airports.

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  • Vancouver-based Zite was sent a cease-and-desist letter in March by multiple media companies who alleged copyright violations, according to All Things Digital.

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  • Researchers at Harvard Medical School found patients with either of two mutations--single-letter changes in their DNA--saw their cholesterol decrease by about 20% less than other patients when they took the same cholesterol-lowering drug, Bristol-Myers Squibb 's (nyse: BMY - news - people ) Pravachol.

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  • Correspondents did as they were bidden, filing their copy by air-mail letter or, in later years, by telex.

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  • Earlier that day, he had been approved for an American tourist visa, which had been fast-tracked by a letter from Fred Wilson, who runs Union Square Ventures, one of the largest venture-capital firms in New York.

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  • Gone are the days of massive sit-ins and letter-writing campaigns championed by older activists.

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  • My second question is -- unrelated matter -- the White House had been asked by the two Illinois senators to send a letter that Guantanamo detainees would not -- not be sent to the prison in Illinois that the federal government is trying to purchase.

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  • The lead investigator of a controversial study of the cholesterol drug Vytorin threatened to end working with one of the drug's makers over delays in the release of the findings, according to e-mail messages excerpted in a letter sent to drugmakers Merck and Schering-Plough by Sen.

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  • As for the crudities of hot-metal typesetting and letter-press printing, all these have long been superseded by electronic setting (in which a 1970s managing director, Ian Trafford, was a pioneer, and made The Economist one too), and by the stunning quality of modern offset printing.

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  • In early January 2006, DP World sent a dense three-page, single-spaced letter to the Department of Homeland Security promising to abide by all the U.S. government's port-security programs already in place.

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  • It would force internet-service providers (ISPs) to reveal the identities of users downloading copyrighted material, and would send them two warnings: the first by e-mail, the second by registered letter.

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  • Guidelines would certainly be a step up from regulation-by-warning letter.

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  • The letter - written by the Charity Finance Group, National Council for Voluntary Organisations and the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action - expressed concern for up to 5, 000 UK charities in "multi-employer defined benefit schemes".

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  • General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) posted a letter on its web site, seeking to calm investors by emphasizing that the majority of its commercial real estate and residential mortgage assets are outside of the United States, whose domestic real estate crisis is at the heart of the world's current credit upset.

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  • Now that he is hunting Clintons, Mr Starr has grown obsessed by this five-letter word.

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  • The fund-raising letter is signed by Mary McCarty, a Republican commissioner in Palm Beach County, one of the counties at the center of the recount dispute.

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  • You can report suspected tax fraud to the IRS by using Form 3949-A, Information Referral, or by mailing a letter describing the alleged fraudulent activity.

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  • But by the 1970s professionally orchestrated letter-writing campaigns began to undermine the letter-writers' impact.

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  • Letter by letter, his ink-stained fingers hand-set type, ink the raised letters with a hand-roller, then crank heavyweight paper through an old-fashioned letterpress.

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  • The participants called on the United States Senate to engage in the most rigorous and careful consideration of this accord in a joint letter signed by twenty-seven groups.

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  • An employee fingered by a no-match letter can go to another company and use the same bogus number and documents for a year or so, until another letter arrives.

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  • Some 49 groups - including the Federation of Scottish Theatre, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and the Edinburgh Mela - were told by letter that their regular funding would end next spring.

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  • Each submission to the Journal was accompanied by a single-spaced letter of two or three pages, bringing me up to date on his travels, his retreat in the Rocky Mountains, his thoughts on events outside the realm of his columns.

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  • The letter also says cross-pollination by bees is very rare when separation distances are 200m.

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  • For nearly two decades, ETFs in the U.S. have been held together by a series of private-letter rulings and so-called exemptive relief.

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