• "This has resulted in stacks of mail remaining in the depot, " a CWU spokesman said.

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  • Growing up, Salinas sold honey in jars door-to-door and spent weekends playing in stacks of lumber for cabinets made at the family factory.

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  • From his spartan office in the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy he established at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, Huang wades through stacks of papers and presentations to explain why.

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  • In delivering more than stacks of information, we were able to deliver our thinking under the guise of redesigning the home page.

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  • In the packed crowds, OTL producers saw men holding stacks of bills often in large denominations as they watched the games.

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  • Two million to three million of the five million volumes in the stacks including the more specialized material many of us depend on, and referred to by the library as the "least used" books would be moved to Siberia. (Excuse me, to New Jersey, where the offsite storage is located.) Books would be returned in an optimistically estimated but unreliable 24 hours, by truck, on the traffic-jammed New Jersey Turnpike.

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  • He had to send an Ontario lottery official a batch of unscratched cards in two stacks, one winning one losing, before getting a suddenly speedy rise out of him.

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  • Nanotubes are like rolled up sheets, while nanofibres consist of tall stacks of small sheets in various configurations.

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  • Stacks of them, in Georgian, Hungarian, Arabic, Algonquin and nine other tongues.

    ECONOMIST: What makes some people learn language after language?

  • Another Toyota innovation is within reach of the assembly line: stacks of car parts in plastic bins, neatly sorted in the sequence in which they'll be needed for the mix of cars coming down the assembly line.

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  • These include Yuri Suzuki, a materials scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is building stacks of metal oxides in the hopes that, when combined with carbon-based materials, they'll blend into a new kind of semiconductor that can control spin at normal temperatures.

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  • Teens and women alike mobbed the Rampage boots, calling out sizes and colors to employees working in a roped off section around huge stacks of the coveted footwear.

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  • Scripps encourages students to take advantage of these special resources, making it easy to get lost among stacks and stacks of papers and artifacts in a temperature-controlled basement.

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  • Rather, it houses an exhibition hall, the famed Rose Main Reading Room, and some 5 million research volumes many of them housed in closed stacks that occupy a space two blocks long, a quarter-block wide and eight stories high.

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  • Using a new 3-D chip design that stacks more capacity in the same amount of space, Matrix claims that it can deliver packaged content faster and less expensively than masked ROM and avoid the moving parts that plague discs.

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  • The cultural heart of Oracle remains in the software stacks where it has dominated.

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  • There he was in his office, an office cluttered with stacks of paper to a scale that was legendary, though he had us convinced he knew where every one was.

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  • With Google now as much a verb as a company name, search engine optimization (or SEO)--the process of increasing a site's odds of ranking high in the search stacks--is a key consideration for any e-commerce player.

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  • At the makeshift showroom, two sociable poodles welcome visitors who are seated on a sofa in front of a coffee table weighted down with stacks of fashion magazines.

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  • The UK-based mom-of-two was stuffed into a lacey black dress, armed with stacks of gold bangles and topped with a pair of square-rimmed glasses, as if forgotten in her hair.

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  • Poring over stacks of documents, investigators at the American Embassy in Kabul have pinpointed dozens of instances in which Kabul Bank executives may have bribed Afghan officials, including a successful bid to process the salaries that the government pays its employees each month at least seventy-five million dollars.

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  • The dimly lit stacks of a library are among the most delightful places in the world for the likes of us.

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  • "We live in a gas chamber, " says Denis Danielevsky, pointing at several smoking chimney stacks on a hill overlooking a huge industrial area in the town of Ust-Kamenogorsk, eastern Kazakhstan.

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  • While much of the 2, 900 tons of gold produced annually is merely added to the stacks in London and Zurich vaults, the world is burning through, and sometimes spilling, a record 88 million barrels of oil a day.

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  • The most important items in each of these boy-caves were the ever-present turntable and stacks of rock and roll records.

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  • Now, having been stuck with the library shtick, she has to go on working the stacks in the Harry Potter movies, while the kids who have since come of age nudge their parents.

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  • It is ironic that the very band they are trying to emulate probably did not make enough money in their spluttering career to pay for one of the industrial-strength speaker stacks that dominate the skyline whenever Metallica play live.

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  • In a room down the corridor, several people are hard at work scanning barcodes from stacks of documents with an optical character reader.

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  • This year the 49-year-old made 15 trips to move stacks of cash from his Dallas home over the border to Durango, Mexico in his 2002 silver Ford van.

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  • The downside, of course, is when you get so many they start to accumulate in large stacks that topple over if you so much as look at them wrong.

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