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The boat nudges ahead, the chain swings vertical and the anchor itself rises out of the water, glinting and dripping like a fish.
BBC: Sailing in Croatia
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Sometimes, in fact, he orders his charges into the deep end for a session of vertical kicking, with the aim of lifting their torsos out of the water.
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In places, even its primeval marrow juts out: where the river flattens we slide evenly past eerie, vertical folds of Vishnu schist, which our guides tell us whistle when the wind blows through its billion-year-old fins.
BBC: Missing pieces in Utah
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At 9, 730 feet, a vertical mile above the valley floor, you gaze out over 60 square miles of alkali --the Alvord Desert.
FORBES: A Desert Where?
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They can no longer go on with the management style of vertical integration, in which profitable affiliates suffer while helping out loosing affiliates.
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The first 800m are an intense vertical climb through Alpine meadow, but the trail levels out at an altitude of 1, 500m and the rarefied views of Lake Uri are worth the sweat.
BBC: In Swiss utopia, the devil dwelled
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Since they are built on to a flat wafer, rather than etched out of it, layers of vertical transistors could even be constructed on top of one another, raising the intriguing possibility of multi-storey semiconductors.
ECONOMIST: Transistors: A tall story | The
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It also turned out that Applied's investment bank, Vertical Capital, had twice been fined by the National Association of Securities Dealers.
FORBES: As a businessman, he's been mixing with a sketchier crowd.
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There's a new Google Apps icon which opens up a tray containing a number of featured services put out by the search giant, and long-pressing the home button brings up a vertical Honeycomb-style multitasking menu.
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In a report, Merrill Lynch analyst Jeanne Terrile points out that Chemdex, a "vertical portal, " brings together buyers and sellers of life sciences research products on the Web.
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