Handed a rare absolute parliamentary majority by voters, Italy's conservatives had an historic opportunity that has now been largely squandered.
Hepatic fat increased from a baseline of 1 percent to a median absolute increase of 6 percent at 26 and 78 weeks.
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Rather than craft a test with a dictated and absolute minimum score, creating a relative measure that allows institutions to compete against each other on a level playing field for funds would have been much smarter and aligned to market realities.
Measured by medians, new issues backed by venture capital have a negative 16% absolute performance and a score of 51 relative to the market.
And a process has to be invented that can insert these targets of hydrogen, which must be kept frozen to a few degrees above absolute zero, ten times a second.
Wine scores are merely a static symbol, an absolute definition based on a singular contact with a wine, and thus completely ineffective when applied to a dynamic, evolving and multifaceted product.
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The U.S. has not been a AAA-rated nation in the absolute sense for a while.
This implies that a creditors primary concern is not the absolute safety of a bond or other credit instrument, but its relative safety.
This slows down the movement, and hence the temperature, of its atoms to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.
He dropped all of that upon his inauguration in 2003, and made a near-absolute retreat from Hollywood for the next seven years.
"After that, all theories are possible, it could also be in absolute a family drama, this is not excluded, " Mr Maillaud added.
You're presented with a mixture of absolute and relative knobs across the surface -- smoothed action on the absolute, notched on the relative.
Dr Cornell and Dr Wieman had to plumb the icy depths of 20 billionths of a degree above absolute zero in order to win their prize.
These atoms are cooled to a temperature of only a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature, at which all motion stops.
The magnetic traps employed to hold the antihydrogen are only strong enough to confine it if it is colder than around half a degree above absolute zero.
It was a week before the Amazon deal was announced, to general shock within the company, where Hsieh, whose mother is a clinical psychologist, has promoted a culture of absolute transparency (Core Value No. 6: Build Open and Honest Relationships with Communication).
I'm going to bundle up tight today -- silk underwear, hat, gloves, and insulated boots -- and go for a walk in the woods, just to savor the depth of silence, the sense of a world brought to a point of absolute and unimaginable stillness.
Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.
It is not a word for a dramatic shift from an absolute (though relatively gentle) monarchy with a weak consultative assembly to a constitutionally limited monarchy with a strong, sovereign parliament and an elected president who can remove executive branch officials without entreating the king.
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These perfect spheres are coated with niobium, a metal which, when kept close to absolute zero, is a superconductor.
Not long ago this country was faced with several years in a row of declining federal tax revenues (both in absolute dollars and as a percent of GDP), simultaneous declines in GDP growth from over 5% to less than 1%, and a 50% increase in the rate of unemployment.
The AIG mess, then, is the result of denial about the level of risk, arrogance that the triple A credit rating is an absolute safety belt, greed about compensation that leads to reckless behavior and overall, a level of irrationality that approached insanity.
Many tennis games are forgettable, some are horrible and a very few are absolute gems.
If that happens, holders would enjoy handsome capital gains alongside a good yield and absolute safety.
Cardinals who take part in the process take a vow of "absolute and perpetual secrecy".
Further, the absolute earliest a team could play in a new Virginia Beach arena is 2015.
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"The footage shows a near-on absolute lack of supervision from Bobby Roberts, " Ms Law told the court.
His budget envisages a slowdown in the rate at which government grows rather than a reduction in its absolute size.
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