Ms. Barrett demonstrates what she calls her "signature sit-up" in heels.
There've been warnings - as I heard a few weeks ago from a man who made the whole room sit up - that until we as patients are persuaded to see crumbling hospitals as liabilities and not assets, nothing much will change.
BlackBerry users know that stellar Twitter clients have been hard to come by, so whenever a major new release hits the streets, it's something that makes the BlackBerry-carrying Twitter addicts out there -- and there are many of them, rest assured -- sit up and take notice.
Labor unions in Greece declared a four-hour strike Friday while in Germany , police broke up a sit-down protest outside the U.S. military's European Command in Stuttgart.
Their modular hydroponic system -- where plants sit in a soil-free set up with nutrients delivered through irrigation channels -- can be retrofitted to just about any wall.
During the Gaza conflict, Islamic and far-Left student societies up and down the country held "sit-ins" to protest against Israel's defensive action.
The prospect of giant Google-server farms built next to power plants makes executives from IBM to Accenture (nyse: ACN - news - people ) sit up straight.
Mega-philanthropist and billionaire Ted Turner, who displayed such comfort with being on stage and with the subject that it was hardly necessary for him to sit up straight, over-shared that men are too testosterone-jacked to stay in any power positions at all.
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For example, you can sit at home and pay to top-up your electricity meter or pay your cable TV subscription using Paga.
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The arcade is stocked with multiplayer sit-down driving games and stand-up light gun games, as well as Sonic air hockey tables, as well as traditional boardwalk games like skee ball.
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One of the world's biggest cranes, with a 500-foot boom, will sit between the two big foundation holes, pluck the already-built sections up and drop them into place.
The buses round about where I live are almost all double-deckers, and in general the non-smokers sit downstairs whilst the smokers sit up the stairs.
Kilmarnock manager Jimmy Calderwood had named an attacking line-up, with on-loan striker Chris Maguire returning after being forced to sit out Wednesday's win over employers Aberdeen and Danny Invincibile being rewarded for a good performance as a substitute.
Stand-up comics are leading the way, a change from the past dominance of television by sit-coms and sketch shows.
And I -- we sit there -- when my brother and sister and I -- brothers and sister and I divided up the cost of the care, we were able to do that, no complaints, not a problem.
That what-me-worry attitude doesn't sit well with advertisers fed up with the networks' incessantly rising prices.
Why not Wi-Fi up the downtown so that entrepreneurs can sit in coffee shops and surf the Net?
The knowledgeable home members, previously suspicious of the patka-sporting cult hero, were suddenly forced to sit up and recognise what the fuss had been about.
Ports for micro-USB and a 3.5mm headphone jack sit up top, with the volume rocker and lock key on the right and a covered slot for microSD or, in the case of the (gold) 308, a second full-sized SIM on the opposite edge.
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When the yet-to-be-hired Knight-sponsored fellows have wrapped up their investigations and sit down to draw up those best practices, will they conclude that most of what the Tribune has accomplished can be exported, or is it a flower that can only thrive in the soil of the Lone Star state?
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Mr Tsipras, who organised sit-ins and protest marches at high school, still enjoys stirring up the political establishment.
Joe and Frank Venezia used to sit in class like a couple of dummies -- they never kept up on the reading.
After a few sets of sit-ups, the women, dressed in gym clothes, roll up their mats and line up behind Ms. Barrett, facing mirrors.
Dollhouse, helmed by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Joss Wheedon, will be joined by two more animated series (another signature of the young-skewing network): Family Guy-spinoff Cleveland and Mitch Hurwitz's Sit Down and Shut Up.
Light from chandeliers dance over the delegates as they sit in their four closed-door sessions a day, which are broken up with coffee breaks and three course meals.
Indeed, the few times a second team member does sit up front it's to help the driver navigate big-city traffic, mostly as a second set of eyes out for cyclists, rickshaws and tuk-tuks.
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In the lunch session at his headquarters, Zhang cheerfully reminds me of a question I asked during my last sit-down with him six years ago, about how he would catch up with Gome.
And the army has chosen both a Muslim Brother and a prominent Christian judge to sit on an eight-man legal panel that has been asked to draw up new, fairer rules swiftly for early elections.
When a company with super-hot products like Apple announces a Black Friday sale, consumers sit up and notice.
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Mom and Pop investors wait some more, only to watch the market-index arrows continue to point up, and then continue to sit and wait, still worried they are missing their chance.
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