• The area is now a patchwork of protected and unprotected land, much of it privately owned, including the Concord School District's 15-acre plot behind the high school.

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  • They have to slightly search around, there's a sub-plot about a young chap working in the Foreign Office, who steals some information to feed Churchill for his speeches made in Parliament.

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  • The letter also provided new details about al-Awlaki's alleged involvement in a 2010 plot to blow up U.S.-bound cargo planes with explosives hidden in printers.

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  • Valkyrie - named after Operation Valkyrie, the plot's codename - will be directed by Bryan Singer and co-star British actor Kenneth Branagh.

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  • Mercedes-Benz's 90-second ad had a Faustian plot.

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  • Eva Longoria Parker, who plays the once highly-glamorous Gabrielle Solis, says she's particularly thrilled with the plot twist--and not just because her hair and makeup preparation time has been cut down from two hours to 10 minutes.

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  • And that's not a socialist plot -- (laughter) -- for us to reduce our energy usage.

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  • Parrot is an itinerant English printer who thanks to an over-complicated plot ends up as Olivier's servant-cum-minder.

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  • Use the group's website to plot a map-based itinerary, choosing from more than 600 signposted routes, 100 bed-and-breakfasts and 4, 000 points of interest.

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  • Law-enforcement sources say Mr. Zazi's plot wasn't uncovered by the tripwire system, but through international intelligence-gathering.

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  • Helping to seamlessly blend the film's philosophical concerns with its dead-on plot is its excellent acting.

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  • Bergen doubted that the plot's true masterminds -- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh -- will be brought to justice.

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  • There is also a sub-plot about Alex's father, who fled to the West when he and his sister were young children and who re-appears in time for a reconciliation with his mother before she dies.

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  • For the first few frames of the scene, one of the tablets is shown being used to scan radio frequencies, so it's justified as part of the plot -- and busy gents like these are bound to carry a few devices around with them.

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  • In July Rezwan Ferdaus, a Massachusetts resident inspired by al Qaeda's ideology, pleaded guilty to a September 2011 plot to fly a remote-controlled plane into the Pentagon and U.S. capitol with high explosive.

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  • But French chain Novotel's site in Danang remains a fenced-in plot of earth.

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  • Don't expect Thursday's foiled terror plot in London to ground the U.S. government's Ez-pass style security program for frequent travelers.

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  • He soon learns that illegal insider information is the secret to Gekko's success, and together they plot a corporate raid against a small airline, Bluestar--the company Fox's father works for.

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  • Moscow (CNN) -- Russia's security service has foiled a plot to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea city of Sochi, state media reported Thursday.

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  • Countless modern writers have been influenced by Anton Chekhov's short stories and plays, which renounce plot-based structure, concentrating instead on the quasiabstract sketching of character and mood.

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  • He recently accused Renault of "robbing" him of the 2008 drivers' championship - which he lost be a single point - because of the race-fix plot in last year's Singapore race.

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  • Prosecutors say Mr. Smith and Mr. Halloran tried to bribe Republican officials into giving Mr. Smith a spot on the party's ticket for mayor, in a wide-ranging plot that eventually ensnared half a dozen New York politicians and has raised questions about the scale of corruption in Albany.

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  • In the fall of 2010, a year after the document was written, European intelligence agencies were scrambling to investigate a Mumbai-style plot involving German and other European militants -- which sparked an unprecedented U.S. State Department travel warning for Americans in Europe.

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  • The series' title--taken from a late-70's ABC series on which the new one was loosely based--as well as its apocalyptic plot line and deep space locale probably scared off as many viewers as it attracted.

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  • The court has heard the fire was a plot to frame Mr Philpott's ex-mistress.

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  • The story's plot is based on Steve Jobs' real-life run-in with authorities over Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s backdating of stock options to increase their value.

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  • The film's plot centers of the fortunes of failed ice-hockey player Happy Gilmore, played by Adam Sandler, who masters a powerful and dangerous slap shot which he converts to golf with devastating effect.

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  • For, whatever their economic impact, widely supported UN sanctions do give the lie to Iran's claims that it is the victim of a Western-inspired plot to deprive it of its right to nuclear energy, rather than being in the dock for what IAEA inspectors report have been serious violations of its nuclear safeguards.

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  • Oliver Twist also highlights the rank poverty of the inner cities - particularly when the plot moves to Jacob's Island, " the filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London " where the houses were "so filthy, so confined, that the air would seem to be too tainted even for the dirt and squalor".

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  • After all, on 4 October 1994, within days of his storming of the Russian White House, Yeltsin issued a decree ordering the round-up and expulsion of "persons of Caucasian nationality" from Moscow, a diktat ominously reminiscent of Josef Stalin's anti-semitic actions at the time of the Doctors' Plot in 1952-53 when "persons of Jewish nationality" were incarcerated and, in many cases, eliminated.

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