It was easy, sitting at that worn counter, listening to the comforting sound of ringing phones and clinking china on a rainy weekday afternoon, like the last time I was there, to even imagine that it felt permanent.
His critics at home counter that Mr Chavez has sacrificed Venezuela's long-term market share and the health of its oil industry for a probably ephemeral cash windfall.
The bulls will counter that, at the first sign of serious weakness, the Federal Reserve would engineer a collapse in mortgage-borrowing costs.
The report also takes aim at perceived gender roles, suggesting that counter-terror practices involving both sexes be reevaluated due to their basis in traditional perceptions of gender.
But according to the people familiar with the matter, at issue is a kind of over-the-counter deal that allows banks or brokerages to sell bonds to investors at prices higher than they paid, pocketing the difference.
The waiting area at the pharmacy counter at my local drug store has a cute little sign that asks customers to keep their distance to respect the privacy of someone picking up a prescription.
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But she informed me that she, be the person on the other side of the counter could not see my number, at that point I realized that thousands of people a day across America, use Wal Mart to cash their checks, and that means a lot of people are being put at risk, when they may not think about.
China has always suspected that American missile-defence plans are intended at least in part to counter its own nuclear arsenal, and has given warning that, in response, it might have to build up its own arsenal of nuclear-capable missiles.
Though that seemed counter-intuitive at the time, Google focused on letting people use its search tool without the diversion of ads, and for free.
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We like awesome new software as much as the next guy, but Google's been moving so fast lately that they've created a near constant culture of obsolescence anxiety among the hardcore user base -- and in turn, that leads to paralysis at the sales counter.
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He explained that "whereas you might get frustrated when the waitress at the counter gives you the wrong coffee, " after a recent trek he was so inured to adversity that he spent a couple of hours outdoors without even noticing it was pouring.
Any man that is as insecure about allowing his wife to be surrounded by males, should be just as concerned about a co-worker as the man that works behind the meat counter at the grocery store.
These love to pretend that they live in one of the world's toughest urban jungles, beset by warring gangs and malevolent Nature, when, in reality, the biggest danger they face is that the person behind the counter at Starbucks might mis-hear their order for a double tall, decaf, non-fat latte with a vanilla shot and make their coffee with full-fat milk by mistake.
What this latest campaign of deceit by Team Obama is meant to obscure is its own national security malpractice, namely a dogged refusal to face the reality that America is at war with an enemy that they have been unwilling to name, have failed to counter and are actually emboldening.
Moreover, they argue that taxing capital gains at higher rates would be counter-productive because people would just stop selling assets with gains and Treasury revenues would fall.
Electronic tickets were less common back then, and the festival organizer had written to tell me that my ticket would be waiting at the KLM counter at the airport.
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He argues more plausibly that al-Qaeda was held at bay by counter-actions, including the eviction of Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan, enhanced homeland security and the vigorous gathering of intelligence, including legally questionable surveillance at home.
These cases confirm a perhaps obvious intuition that fraudulent transfers can prove counter-productive at best, and disastrous at worst.
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But the BBC understands that some senior officers at Scotland Yard who deal with counter-terrorism feel the police are not ready for a January start.
In addition, Emirates airline said Shahzad bought his ticket with cash at the airport counter, and the staff, considering that unusual, immediately informed airport security officials.
And that's very counter-cultural here at Ford Motor Company.
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Unfortunately, a close look at Olmert's counter-terror measures makes clear that, no, in spite of the wailing of the international press corps, and the whining of the State Department and its European and Russian counterparts, in fact, Olmert still refuses to get it.
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It means that I can use my PayPal account and at the checkout counter, I just use my cellphone number and a pin.
At that time, it should assume full responsibility for peacekeeping and counter-insurgency, with a separate American-led force, currently of 20, 000 troops, merging into it.
The government's consumer watchdog accuses them of hoarding and speculation, complaining that they are selling under the counter to restaurants at a higher price.
The Iranians know this but have not met their obligation even at this late hour to counter this impression, and for that reason the burden of proof has now shifted: The moral, political and legal responsibility for violent confrontation has passed entirely to Teheran.
Boost-phase defense, which is necessary to counter such a threat, was not technologically feasible at that time.
Nowadays, that kind of pointed counter-criticism is very effective at shutting down conversations about how to improve things.
It seems likely that the counter-attack in Mazar was organised, at least in part, by Mr Masoud's lieutenants.
Mandy did think about it, the thick directory that used to boost her up on her stool at the kitchen counter.
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