• We were literally making a kind of feudal social call.

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  • Of its 5, 800 permanent residents, half are now over 65 years of age - making it a kind of living laboratory not just for Japan but for other countries with rapidly aging populations.

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  • If you buy a hybrid, you're kind of making a statement, which is that you're supporting the development of a new kind of technology, and I got a lot of reader e-mail suggesting that that was an important point, that they want to put their money where their mouth is, so to speak, and support this kind of technology.

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  • The friends, too young to be abashed by their own presumption, take on the slave-trade interests a good part of the upper class, which was making a fortune from it as a kind of consecrated adventure.

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  • The result: Berliners are pulling down their pants when the car scoots into view, making obscene gestures, shouting, and kind of making a scene.

    FORBES: Pranksters Attach GPS Device To Google Street View Car

  • Ryan Croft in Asheville, North Carolina, for instance, said he was teaching his family how to subsist on alternative sources of nourishment like algae, roasted mice and earthworms, as well as making a one-of-a-kind assault rifle -- a hybrid between an AR-15 and AK-47 -- to deal with signs of doom lurking around the corner.

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  • Expect more to come: Nokia unveiled a suite of new mapping, navigation and messages aimed at making its handsets--which already serve as a kind of digital multitool in much of the world--more useful.

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  • Spike Lee, who recently directed "Clockers, " a movie about drugs in the ghetto, said that he's taking a break from making that kind of film.

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  • The kind of making a phone call?

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  • "The fact that nobody got inducted is kind of like the sports writers were making a point out of Barry Bonds, " he said.

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  • GeOS is a one-of-a-kind "operating system" for commercial use of OpenStreetMap, making use of the crowdsourced data intuitive, affordable and secure for developers to build services with it.

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  • Some influential Republicans, judging that outright hostility to public spending is failing to win support, have been making speeches of a New Democrat kind, saying that government is all right after all, as long as it is competent.

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  • But given the fact that there's been new violence pretty much every day this week in Afghanistan, October has become the deadliest month in the war, doesn't Senator McCain have a point when he says this has become kind of a long, protracted decision-making process and maybe it's time to act?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Frontier is no longer making the kind of money it was a year ago, but at least it is making money.

    FORBES: Wild Frontier

  • The onlookers may also be hampering them - some of the bystanders are acting as if it is a kind of party, making noises.

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  • The work starts with discussions focused on client objectives -- making a visual statement, drawing a particular kind of traffic, solving a spatial problem -- and moves into the design phase, rendering two or three different ideas.

    FORBES: Splash!

  • The process involves making a cell forget its identity as one particular kind of cell in favor of becoming another kind.

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  • "I am not trying to make an excuse for my behaviour by saying that others did the same, but I don't think I was some kind of a monster in making a death threat to a suspect, " he says.

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  • Ms. NICOLE ANDREWS (FEMA): From impacts on local infrastructure, sheer magnitude of making available a mobile home site, a piece of land where we can do this kind of construction to, you know, the simple fact of just not wanting hurricane evacuees in your backyard.

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  • Chief executive Hamish Morrison said that putting fishermen at the heart of the decision-making process would "help prevent the kind of dog's dinner of a deal done in Brussels last month".

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  • Now, I think it's worth mentioning since I'm with the Prime Minister of India that this important not just to the United States, but it's important to the world, and that the whole world I think has a core security interest in making sure that the kind of extremism and violence that you've seen emanating from this region is tackled, confronted in a serious way.

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  • Mr Donkin's hope is that a new kind of company will in future blur the line between work and leisure, making labour in essence a form of fun.

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  • Bos explains you can actively use this kind of intuition as a decision-making tool.

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  • Just as you were cheerfully knocking out guards and stealthily making your way through a level, the game threw some kind of gigantic armored boss at you, shattering the fiction the game had established and forcing the player through some strange hoops before the narrative resumed.

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  • By making new sounds, he was preparing the way for a higher kind of life.

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  • That is, making a market, a secondary market, in mortgages of the kind that we're now accustomed to.

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  • Moreover, Germany, in the shape of its foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, has lately been making the running on its own, with a proposition for some kind of eventual European federation.

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  • As the manager of a big Russian investment fund, Bill Browder has contributed to the circulation of the first kind of money as well as making a packet for himself, and making his rich clients even richer.

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  • Now, there aren't a lot of small businesses across the country that are making that kind of money.

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  • People do not care what kind of technology they are using when they are making a phone call or downloading a ringtone, says Julian Horn-Smith, Vodafone's chief operating officer.

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