Castro also said that it's normal for a patient's face to swell up after being on a ventilator for a long time, though he also speculated the puffiness could be due to medications Chavez has been taking.

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Both men have used them as patronage and to soak up unemployment, letting them swell to around 85, 000-strong, far beyond the 30, 000 limit envisaged in the Oslo peace accords of the 1990s.

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Driven by demand for hybrid and electric cars, lithium demand is expected to swell to 250, 000 tons annually up from current levels of 100, 000 tons.

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The number of companies in that predicament tends to swell when economic conditions are weak and credit dries up, but there are also many carriers in countries with unstable economies or political systems who cannot obtain private financing for their aircraft purchases.

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In return the partners swell Fifa's coffers as they stump up to have their names associated with the most popular game on the planet.

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In just a few billion years from now, it will use up all of its hydrogen fuel and will swell to become a red giant.

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Papara's black-sand beach picks up the south swell, and waves range from small and gentle to overhead, big and fast (check local conditions).

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The money may be swell, but the top three picks of this year's draft are likely to wind up with a grisly sentence to either the Chiefs, Jaguars, or Raiders.

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The stand had gone beyond nuisance value for England when Bresnan cranked up his speed and pegged back Johnson's off-stump to silence a growing swell of approval from the Australian spectators.

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