In the House, Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI), Jim McDermott (D-WA), Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Ed Pastor (D-AZ), and Pete Stark (D-CA) all scored below a five percent, while those in the Senate who failed to reach double digits include Russell Feingold (D-WI), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Robert Menendez (D-NJ).

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's flip, cynical Stark (Iron Man) gets a good measure of the movie's best lines, bouncing off Steve Rogers' (Captain America) boy scout idealism and Thor's guileless sledgehammer style (sometimes literally).

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Behind the robust overall performance lies a stark dichotomy between the robust (America and China, in particular) and the wheezing (Japan and continental Europe).

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There's a loophole in the law for performance-based pay (like options), but the law still stands as a stark statement about pay equity.

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This came as a stark reminder of the dangers facing America (the world's largest oil consumer) and the instability in the Middle East (home of much of the world's oil reserves).

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Finally, he confirmed that the inner workings we've heard about in Project Denver will first be present in the Tegra line with the introduction of Stark -- a long ways out, but at least you've got something (else) to look forward to.

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Ms. ANTOINETTE STARK (Colorado): I'm 82 years old, and so my income is under a thousand a month.

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This puts it in stark contrast to, say, the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG) , which has a low current yield but holds companies with a long history of raising their dividends.

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Well, if you have ever observed how the second hand of a mechanical watch moves, you know that it appears to run smoothly (in stark contrast to the second hand of a quartz watch, which makes a little jump once a second).

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