In any event, the Fusion's weird Aston Martin-ness was a matter of board-level sign-off, the judgment of designer Chris Hamilton, design chief J Mays and CEO Alan Mulally.
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Four of the suspects were charged as major traffickers under the "drug kingpin" statute, which is aimed at getting higher-level dealers off the streets the most people ever charged under the statute in a single takedown, Vance said.
Stored in Spanish sherry casks since Wolrd War II and left to age for over six decades, the extravagant concoction boasts a diminished alcohol level of 42.5% just above the cut-off level for scotch classification.
Per-minute charges will keep falling, but average monthly revenues per subscriber-down 35% over the past five years-will level off through 2000.
The current Range Rover Sport excels at driving on- and off-road to a level that few other SUVs do.
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The two were forced to go to the one-off play-off in Khartoum after finishing level in Group C.
VMware also benefits by creating even more demand for its cloud-level operating system, and staves off competitors that also want to create meta-server environments, like Microsoft.
He and his fellow tech migrants all seem to be what my editor refers to as "economic super-predators" kids who are super-smart, super-ambitious and hyper-educated, but still manage to come off as likable and level-headed.
Instead of using senior recruiters to filter through the company's applicants, lower-level screeners process them first and only hand off the most-qualified.
But despite a host of chances they were unable to draw level, ending their play-off chances.
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After each innovation and burst of performance improvement, gains level off, return-on-effort diminishes and results plateau out.
The company says county-level forest bureaus signed off on the transfer of trees, but the committee struggled to verify these agreements.
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For instance, the requirement to keep grades at a certain level--Levy cuts money off if an heir's GPA dips below 3.0--may unfairly penalize heirs with learning disabilities.
Charles Kernot, the mining analyst at Paribas in London, predicts that British production, which was 31m tonnes this year, will level off to 6m-10m tonnes by 2010, most of it from open-cast mines.
The sides were level again straight from the kick-off, with Swanson's cross evading Goodwillie and two defenders before the unmarked Daly swept it into the net from five yards.
Developed by researchers at RIKEN and Tokai Rubber Industries (TRI), the new robot can lift a patient up to 80kg in weight off floor-level bedding and into a wheelchair, freeing care facility personnel of one of their most difficult and energy-consuming tasks.
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While women represent 53% of new hires, the drop-off rate of women at each level up the ladder is startling: 37% of the next-level promotions go to women while only 14% of executive committees are female.
Britain emerged from the first world war with debt at 140% of GDP and prices more than double their pre-war level, but it was determined to pay off its debt and return the pound to its pre-war value against gold.
Recent college graduates who are working in high-school level jobs might be better off in the long run by freelancing or starting a business in their field than, say, waiting tables.
Beyond their basic evaluation of soldiers and veterans considered at-risk of suicide, the researchers are also interested in determining whether all soldiers (and, perhaps, some civilians) would benefit from some level of omega-3 supplementation to ward off mental health problems.
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It was truly a mega blockbuster in the age of the massive saturation-level opening weekend, a phenomena kicked off by Batman four years earlier.
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China cannot really short US bonds on any meaningful level, because if it induced a sell-off of US bonds, it would be shorting its own portfolio.
New joints in the robot's base and lower back enable RIBA-II to crouch down and lift a patient off a futon at floor level (Figure 1), the most physically strenuous task for care-givers and one that RIBA was not able to do.
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Market participants will be watching to see if physical demand picks up, as occurred last month when a mid-April sell-off sent gold to its lowest level in two years.
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It got even more exciting when Tamim slog-swept two sixes in an over off Swann, and as he eyed his third Test century Kayes reached his first fifty at this level with a well-executed sweep shot for four off the expensive Swann.
As a result, it only seems rational that national union organizations, such as the AFL-CIO, SEIU and others, would follow the example of the International Association of Firefighters and swear off political contributions to federal-level politicos in favor of spending their money in support of state and local candidates.
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