• Nor is it to rule out the right of an individual artist to negotiate a resale agreement when he sells a painting: the royalties a publisher pays to an author are the product of just such a private contract, not a law.

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  • You slide a small camera a laparoscope into the abdomen through a quarter-inch incision near the belly button, insert a long grasper through an incision beneath the waistline, and push a device for stapling and cutting through an incision in the left lower abdomen.

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  • Metagenomics takes another approach, basically putting an entire environment--the water in an ocean, the soil in a forest or the insides of an animal--into a DNA sequencer.

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  • We can see that an A is an A even when the letters are squashed or written in different fonts.

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  • There was also an accordion performance, the playing of vinyl on a record player and, towards the end, an impressive piece of physical theatre cleverly set to a flickering light in a darkened room to give the impression of an old cine-film recording - a highlight for me in such a small space.

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  • Yet the decision to fire a coach is usually an emotional one and the decision to hire a new one is also more often than not an emotional one born from by a desire to win the press conference announcing that hire.

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  • The narrator sings about a man who slowly takes control of the world "with a face of an angel and the heart of a beast, " and as the man's promises lead to ruin, Norman's voice becomes increasingly defeated.

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  • We never have classified as a tax an exaction imposed for violation of the law, and so too, we never have classified as a tax an exaction described in the legislation itself as a penalty.

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  • After reciting a verse from the Qur'an, he reads something that sounds like a judgment, returns the sheet of paper to an interior pocket of his vest, and at the end of a brief meditation proposes that his listeners arm themselves with stones.

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  • In an interview with the L.A.Times, Cablevision spokesman Charlie Schueler refused to indulge the notion that an a la cart world was the end game of the suit.

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  • With an absentee landlord who never visits, nor even has a representative keep an eye on the place, a property on an otherwise clean and tidy street could be covered in unkempt weeds and graffiti or worse.

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  • Pressey, a 5-foot-11 guard whose father, Paul, played in the NBA, averaged 11.9 points, 7.1 assists and 1.8 steals in leading the Tigers to a an appearance in the NCAA tournament.

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  • But, Huddersfield were a different side after the break, beginning the fightback a quarter of an hour into the second half when Pryce was to concede a drop-out before Lawrence broke down the right, passing inside for Cudjoe to pick up and touch down.

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  • The original design was chosen in 1927 by an architect - Sir Reginald Blomfield - who wanted a design closer to the true sense of a pylon - an Egyptian gateway to the sun.

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  • The BUR added two important sets of metrics to previous DOD assessments of future force structure: a characterization of the operational element phases of an MRC and a definition of the forces necessary to conduct such an operation.

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  • The set bounce call causes a bounce of a scrolled region in an opposite direction of a scroll based on a region past an edge of the scrolled region being visible in a display region at the end of the scroll.

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  • The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.

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  • "SASCOC, like the rest of the public, knows no more than what is in the public domain, which is there has been an alleged fatal shooting on the basis of a mistaken identity and an apparent assumption of a burglary, " the South African Olympic committee said.

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  • The hotel, all brown marble and glass with a few sad ferns in the atrium, seems an unlikely base for a terrorist cell, and the supposed terrorists were an unlikely bunch.

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  • Whatever one thinks of his achievement, Mr Vidal is in many respects an exemplary figure: a model of the genteel American, an outstanding literary stylist, and a man with the unflinching courage to say what he believes, though the heavens fall.

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  • Disruptions and revolutions are quick and often violent, but I wonder if structurally what happens in these situations is the spontaneous replacement of an old central structure (the shaft) with a new exoskeleton (the housing of the engine itself) that can contain an energetic process of a higher order than the old structure could metabolize.

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  • In addition, Mr. Obama insists that the United States must become a party to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty - an accord a majority of the U.S. Senate rejected ten years ago on the grounds that it was unverifiable and inconsistent with the nation's need to maintain a safe, reliable and therefore credible nuclear deterrent.

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  • Only yesterday he had kicked in a door at the top of a dark staircase, knocked an attacker to the floor, kicked him in the stomach, crunched his teeth one by one and then allowed a beautiful brunette, naked under an evening gown, to leave unmolested by the fire escape.

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  • If you held out the prospect of getting an A on the test, we'd study longer.

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  • Whether you think spending cuts are good or bad, what are the odds politicians follow through faithfully with an automatic plan forged in the wake of a debate over an arbitrary marker particularly when the cast of players likely changes a bit this November (and two years hence, and two years hence, and two years hence)?

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  • Now, Ms. Zaccone's newly leased A8 has a sunroof for the rear seat, an improved navigation system, a Wi-Fi hot spot for passengers and technology that an anticipates a collision and applies the brakes.

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  • He became an activist on the issue a dozen years ago when state officials discussed an effort to combat the frogs on the Big Island by bombing them with a diluted caffeine spray in an effort to give them heart attacks.

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  • When pitching its new line of chips to investors earlier this year, Intel even went so far as to slap an image of the iPhone onto a slide as an example of the sorts of devices future versions of Atom will power.

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  • When a boy lost an arm in the cog-wheels of a steam winch owned by Lord Wimborne, the courts ruled in a landmark judgment in 1898 that the factory boss had breached an absolute duty imposed on him by statute.

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