Built by Mitsubishi Electric, it boasts a 59-foot-diameter, turtle-shell-shape antenna dubbed "Gamela, " after the Godzilla-slaying tortoise.
Every other major emerging market is growing at a tortoise pace, so why not Russia?
Speaking of tortoise-like play, several Steady Eddies known for their consistency are in contention.
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For the next century or so, the Aldabra tortoise was routinely described as gigantea.
The process of setting standards and WTO policy is more tortoise than hare, according to Lamy.
The sailor slid off the tortoise, and again the two looked at each other.
He added that he will build the tortoise "a beast house" of his own.
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Tortoise's biggest single holding is Houston's Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (49, KMP) .
For tortoise soup, take one reptile, eviscerate, remove skin and all fat, remove shell.
So with the hare already racing away, is there any hope for the tortoise at all?
And China is more tortoise than rabbit (though we know who wins the race in that fable).
On the island of Pinta, goats decimated the vegetation, killing off most of the tortoise species there.
The execution of China's space program has led to "tortoise and hare" comparisons with the United States.
The tortoise raised its wormy head and fixed him with an old eye above its nostriled beak.
If tortoise stocks beat the hares so consistently, why don't investors pile in and arbitrage away the difference?
George Bellows and his friend Edward Hopper have been the hare and the tortoise of American realist art.
Naturally, Sammy the tortoise won't be on Kaepernick's mind on Sunday when he takes on the Baltimore Ravens.
The Marines don't want to hurt the tortoise, so they call us and we go in and move it.
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But to the chagrin of environmentalists, all that clean energy also threatens the habitat of an endangered desert tortoise.
In parts of Angola, putting a tortoise shell under your door is meant to ward off your rivals' muti.
In 1812, a German botanist named August Friedrich Schweigger studied tortoise specimens at the natural history museum in Paris.
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Though, remarkably, Manuela isn't the only pet tortoise who has recently found its way into the world's collective consciousness.
Reforms, still moving at a tortoise pace, according to the assessment of former Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin, are underway.
The clash over the Aldabra tortoise ranks as one of the most murky and bitter in the ICZN's 118-year history.
That is, of course, the punch line to the Aesop fable about the slow, compact tortoise and the sleek, swifter hare.
In September 2004, another tortoise was found after a three-mile journey across the Northumberland countryside - a trip which lasted three months.
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Exhausted, confused and extremely frightened, Owen immediately ran to the safety of a giant tortoise when we released him in Haller Park.
"The hippo follows the tortoise around and licks his face, " she said.
This includes the first dodo parts found in a marsh (a complete leg) and many extinct giant tortoise with beautifully preserved shells.
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