She also stresses the importance of a stand that keeps the instrument at the proper height, since good posture is essential to proper technique.

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Since keeping the ball stable requires abdominal strength and concentration, distracted workers may not maintain good posture or end up rolling onto the floor.

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The wedges increased the forward tilt of the pelvis, which reduced pressure on the lower lumbar discs and the muscular effort required to maintain good posture, researchers said.

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Ms. Easley added one more essential accessory: good posture.

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Her posture was too good to hide it past the third month.

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Clearly separated from the tourist costume of T-shirts, baseball caps and running shoes, a local aristocratic lady also dressed in black, with a gold-handled onyx cane, good jewelry and noble upright posture, entered her apartment building.

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The appeasement of North Korea intensified earlier this year with a Nobel Peace Prize- winning visit to Pyongyang by South Korean President Kim Dae Jong, and a host of concessions by the South unreciprocated by any appreciable diminution of the North's threatening "good-to-go- to-war" military posture.

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However, regardless of the outcome, it is likely that a sizeable chunk of the Kenyan population will vote for ICC indictees with all the implications that has for the rule of law, Kenya's posture with regard to international standards of human rights and good governance, and for the country's standing within the African continent and global community.

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That's characteristic of the sniping posture of many defensive elders who haven't put their gifts to good use in the guise of cultural critic.

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