• The 10-year pit is down from 150 or so brokers and traders as recently as two years ago to 80 or so.

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  • In Lyons on the morning of the competition, Kaysen went so far as to duct-tape loose wires and lay down carpets, so as to prevent slips or falls.

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  • I'm bumping into a lot of critics who do not buy the legitimacy of small town mayorship (Palin had two terms in Wasilla, Alaska, population 9, 000 or so) and executive as opposed to legislative experience.

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  • But was consent actually given by the governed for pension policies and bond indebtedness in Detroit so generous and so large as to be unsustainable or did politicians there take those votes and feather their own political nests with the current and future earnings of the governed?

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  • So, many a Republican newspaper or television executive watched in silence as his or her company suffered financially, and perceptually, from newsroom bias so as not to breach this sacrosanct wall.

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  • When people are mindful of balancing skill and challenge so that cooking, or shopping, is neither so easy as to be a boring chore nor so hard as to be an anxious-making annoyance pushing the limits of competence and time then enjoyment can be found and increased.

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  • So, sometime in 1992 or 3 we went and opened a little Russian company so as to be able to pay people.

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  • Thus, in a typical analysis, the lawyer is focused on a fact-specific transaction and would analyze each and every duty or obligation imposed by law and determine what must be done to comply and what must be avoided so as not to breach some duty imposed by statute, regulation, common law, or the contractual obligations underlying the transaction itself.

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  • Was it right to do so, or is He, as Smith and Bastiat and many others seemed to believe, foundational to the free-market order?

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  • You look at the clock, 15 minutes have passed since you started - do you end it here and now or do you hold, so as not to waste that valuable time already spent.

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  • At the same time, Android has become much more appealing to businesses in the past year or so, as Google and its hardware partners, like Motorola and Samsung, have worked to make the operating system more secure and manageable for IT administrators.

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  • This applies if you paid off a lien placed against your property by material suppliers because of debts owed by a builder or contractor, and you made the payment so as to avoid foreclosure and loss of your property.

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  • Perhaps if the head of some respected scientific organization made such claims, we would chalk up the ridiculous predictions as an early sign of dementia and mercifully decline to report the predictions so as not to embarrass the person as he or she checks out of the real world.

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  • Even the larger of the new areas serves mainly to hold one or two quests rather than a host of smaller ones, and so they feel linear even as the player is free to turn right or left.

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  • Bomb-sniffing dogs and police equipped with radiation-detecting devices will patrol the Long Island Marathon, and the 20, 000 or so finish-line spectators will be limited to carrying small bags such as purses and camera cases, said Inspector Kenneth Lack, a spokesman for the Nassau County Police.

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  • The company in November opened a boutique shopping mall for imported goods, Waow Plaza, in Hangzhou and aims to open another 100 or so in as little as three years.

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  • Art presented as visual and intellectual sport, rather than as high fashion or so much cultural spinach, might suddenly come alive to the many for whom it now is not.

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  • In a letter to parents and students she said those who wanted to wear dark or black clothing as a mark of respect and mourning could do so.

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  • They dismiss the offshore ban as a distraction, since it would take a decade or so to get any oil out of the seabed and into cars (although that could be seen as a reason to hurry).

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  • Leading venture capitalists tell Forbes Global that Munich and a dozen or so other European cities and regions are rapidly emerging as clusters of entrepreneurial excellence places that are beginning to give Silicon Valley in California and Boston, Massachusetts, a run for their money.

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  • The gathering included the UN Security Council's five permanent members plus Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Turkey but not Iran or Saudi Arabia, deemed so antagonistic as to cancel each other out.

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  • The song has been public since January or so, and as winter returns, it's nice to look back on its ode to a quintessential warm-weather activity: cruising, among other forms of bragging sport.

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  • It is estimated that while 2, 308 plant species are known to exist in Cambodia, another 5, 900 or so are thought to be present, and as many as 10% of all plants in Cambodia are believed to be endemic (found nowhere else on earth).

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  • Twitter and Amex, I hope, have thought through the consequences and have limited the launch to a dozen or so big brands such as Best Buy, Virgin America, Sports Authority and Whole Foods.

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  • And, as Britain had done a decade or so earlier, Italy started to sell state-run companies.

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  • Castiglione's constitutional theory is so bizarre and wrongheaded as to suggest either shocking ignorance or an intent to deceive.

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  • But if the financial system that evolved over the past 20 years is now so huge, sprawling and opaque as to defy comprehension or reliable risk assessment, maybe a better way would have been to start prohibiting certain activities.

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  • It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well-informed and yet largely unresolved debates get reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority - "there is no excuse for inaction" - and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to dictate or resolve nothing in political terms.

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  • Or so we are always told and ready to believe, plausible-sounding as it is.

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  • The antiprotons are then pushed into the same trap as the positrons and left to mingle for a second or so.

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