He was chosen by the Shiite clerical leadership in the 1990s to be the head religious figure in the country after the death of his predecessor.
When I pass a sign I'll do math in my head to figure out exactly how many minutes it should take me to get there, just as an exercise to keep my mind working.
The south-east (excluding London) received 87% of the UK figure per head, and the north-east was on 107%.
"Here's this heavy metaphysical painting with a father figure whose head could be bobbed up and down like a yo-yo, played with, or dropped, " Ms. Fort says.
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Though I laughed at the warning sign depicting a stick-figure falling head-first off the cliffs, I made sure to keep a safe distance from the drop-off for fear that the wind might actually propel me over.
So what is the answer to my question - have you got a figure in your head?
Here was the Goldman Sachs president defending a leading political figure, the head of the European Central Bank for stabilizing European markets and the economy.
There was a photograph, a coat thrown over the head and shoulders of a figure being led away, a wrist handcuffed to that of a uniformed garda.
The economic boom, which gives him money to burn, may peter out, and legislators may have second thoughts about creating such a figure at the head of the state.
Ten minutes later he walks out from behind a row of bushes, a stooped figure with his head down, wearing large black galoshes and holding a closed umbrella at his side while the rain pours down onto a limp fishing hat.
My head was spinning just trying to figure out how all these different players had come together.
Overall growth in 2003 was better than 8.5%, the figure predicted by the head of the state tax office last week.
The BBC's Andrew Harding, at the scene, said the defendant cut a lonely figure, holding his head forward and breathing heavily through tears.
The fairgrounds were full of duct-tape sculptures, such as a 20ft-tall Mr Potato Head toy, a Transformers action figure, and an old-fashioned red viewfinder.
Or there is the comparison of nurses per head of population, where a figure for UK population was divided by a figure for the number of nurses - obtained from the Department of Health in London.
So I checked in with Randall Beard, global head of advertiser solutions at Nielsen, to figure out what that was all about.
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"George Nassau, Third Earl Cowper" (1772-3) is another of the artist's masterpieces a bold formal portrait of a standing figure holding his hat above his head in a gesture that might be awkward, but somehow isn't.
The spend per head on health was 10% above the UK figure in Scotland.
We would figure it out and then everybody would head to The Wagon Wheel to get breakfast together.
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It will not disappear and it will reach a point that the present head of Facebook will be forced to have another figure overseeing him as the key CEO of the company.
Under the new law this group is to make recommendations to Congress on how to reduce the rate of growth in spending per head in Medicare if that expenditure exceeds a target figure.
The only way to truly succeed over time is to use your head, think out long-term trends, figure out where productivity exists (and therefore wealth is being created) in the economy, and invest your mind or your money alongside it.
She appears to want to appease the royal bureaucracy, embodied in the figure of General Prem Tinsulanonda, the head of the privy council, so as to smooth the way for the return to Thailand of her elder brother by the end of the year.
Also head-scratching: The government is perpetually trying to figure out how to make Social Security long-term solvent.
Yet John Meriwether, the hedge fund's founder and a former head of trading at Salomon Brothers, remains a shady figure.
The head editor is Owen Thomas, a well-known figure in the Silicon Valley technology scene, having been an editor of Venturebeat, NBC Bay Area and Gawker site Valleywag.
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As its deputy chief operating officer and head of international operations, Murdoch was the third most senior figure at News Corp.
Another main figure in the case was Irina Jianu, former head of a state construction agency, who was found innocent on charges of money laundry and bribery.
"It's a simple concept: Own a bunch of good companies and figure out their fair value, " says Stewart, head of his eponymous investment management firm W.P.
He criticized states that argued for "the right and obligation to use force pre-emptively" to head off perceived threats, but he urged the Security Council to figure out how to deal with similar questions in the future.
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