Nuclear warheads are the low-hanging fruit on the tree of their relations and, after their meeting in London, Presidents Obama and Medvedev announced that they intend to reach a new agreement by December.

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Having passed the 100-day mark in his second term, President Bush has already harvested most of the low-hanging fruit from the legislative tree on that big hill where Pennsylvania Avenue begins.

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And we been hanging from the same tree ever since.

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Last week, a girl's body was found hanging from a tree on police premises in the Nighasan area of Lakhimpur district.

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The noose hanging occurred after a black student asked whether he and some friends could sit under the tree, a place normally used by whites.

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Her body was then dragged through the grass both face up and face down at times until it was finally placed beneath the low-hanging branches of a pine tree.

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As the film opens, she is hanging from a tree by a lake in Kenya's Rift Valley.

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While off-the-cuff comments about tree size may provide low-hanging fruit for late-night shows, they are not usually a good measure of a speech.

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Significantly, he has learnt not run too far up into a tree when on a leash - trained langurs often run the risk of accidentally hanging themselves by the chains or ropes around their necks.

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