Fritland, a fry shop near the statue, promotes itself with a silhouette of the Manneken holding a cone of fries.
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"People act as if they're walking through life in a cone of silence in which only they and the other person on the end of the line can hear them, " he says.
For the first approach, he shapes a wettened cone of clay on a fast-spinning wheel, gradually turning a small dimple in the top into a bowl shape, which he smooths with a deerskin cloth and releases from its base with one quick draw of a taut wire.
This makes it hard, for instance, to compare real-time video images (from a camera in the nose-cone of a missile, for example) with a set of several thousand targets (pictures of enemy aircraft, say), because all the targets have to be tested within a thirtieth of a second, the duration of a single frame of video.
Wide Viewing Angle: With a viewing cone of 180 degrees, the M3D technology overcomes the disadvantages of conventional displays when it comes to off-axis viewing.
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America, meanwhile, has again been showing around documents that purport to be Iranian design work on a missile nose-cone of a sort that that could carry a nuclear warhead.
They did a dreamy marzipan concoction in the shape of a cone topped with a maraschino cherry and covered in vanilla frosting.
But the structure floats on a one-story wall of glass and the high interior space is beautifully shaped by a small forest of cone lamps descending from the roof to just above table height.
To the south is Israel - whose nearest settlement is Metulla, built defiantly on the northern side of a cone-shaped hill topped with antennae, right next to the border.
"It does, " agreed Waxman, thereby opening the door to a line of argument in which he found himself suggesting--apparently in all seriousness--that U.S. citizens might have to purchase a government-issued, Maxwell Smart-like "cone of silence" before making a speech in a public park.
"There was a little bit of confusion, " said David Cone, a starting pitcher on that team.
She goes outside and sets an incense cone inside of a ceramic Buddha.
As Cordarounds gained traction, global advertising agency Foot Cone Belding, a unit of Interpublic, offered the company a slew of services pro bono.
As Cordarounds gained traction, global advertising agency Foot Cone Belding, a unit of Interpublic (nyse: IPG - news - people ), offered the company a slew of services pro bono.
This would leave him an even more effective pitcher than he already is not necessarily the peer of a young Gooden or Seaver, but quite comparable to David Cone, the last pitcher who made this kind of impact on his first run as a Mets starter, and one whose development in his mid-20s tracked this exact pattern.
Instead of pushing a traditional cone speaker from behind with a magnet, Edge Motion-driven speakers work with a thin, slightly curved membrane that is actuated along the edge area in a manner that creates an efficient, piston-like motion in front.
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Preferred access to a market comprising the second largest population of the Southern Cone (45.3 million inhabitants) will give US business a head start as the Colombian economy is likely to expand in the coming years.
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The PlayStation Move consists of neon ice-cream-cone-looking remotes that act like a more accurate version of Nintendo's Wii remote.
Simultaneously, Los Angeles broke a coldest July day record set in 1926, Australia since 1966, and the southern cone of South America saw the coldest July in a half century.
As we poke about the town, which spirals up out of the plain like the tip of a caramel ice cream cone, the first snowflakes drift down, foreshadowing an impending storm.
The principles behind the new design follow the Fibonacci mathematical sequence discovered by Leonardo da Pisa in the 13th Century and echo the spirals at the centre of a sunflower or pine cone.
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Light passing through each microlens focuses at a point a few tenths of a millimetre beyond it, and thereafter spreads out as a cone.
Instead of the fail whale Thursday, some people who tried to log onto Twitter's website saw what looked to be a cartoon duo of an inch worm and a soft-serve ice-cream cone.
Gen Cone said a graduation ceremony for a group of soldiers was taking place nearby.
The result is that the atoms interact with the beam, are drawn into it, and settle at the tip of the cone a phenomenon known as dipole trapping.
The technology is complicated (of course)--a tapered cone wrapped in a chain that unwinds onto the mainspring barrel, ensuring that the power delivered by the mainspring remains constant.
They remained looking out on the meadow beyond the green, Hanwell Snr leaning against the van, despite his beliefs, with his sweaty cone of newspaper and chewing each chip a long time.
She artfully negotiated her scraper spoony thing around the ice cream and shaved off way more than two thirds, leaving me with the undernourished, poor cousin of what was once a giant gelato cone.
Research in 2008 by Cone, a brand consultancy, found that 79% of consumers would switch to a brand associated with a good cause, up from 66% in 1993, and that 38% have bought a product associated with a cause, compared with 20% in 1993.
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