For the next three nights, she slept alone on a hard floor in a large, cement room.

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In Mumbai, he sleeps on the hard floor of a small room in the slum with a friend.

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Earlier this season, Rajon Rondo and Humphries were ejected for scuffling under a basket and into the first row of seats after the Nets' big man knocked Garnett to the floor with a hard foul.

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Several hundred invited guests, all wearing the blue hard hats, took construction elevators up to a top floor to stare out over the turquoise water, sip similarly colored cocktails and hear a speech or five.

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But still, most firms found it hard to spot a value activity when it hit their factory floor.

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And since it is hard to cut nominal wage rates, price stability could put a floor beneath real wages.

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Meanwhile, U.S. men remained undefeated in volleyball of the hard-floor variety, beating Russia in five intense sets for a spot in the final.

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For 30 minutes, we stood in a circle and partook in playful exercises meant to induce laughter and then wrapped it up with a brief laughter meditation where we laid stomach-up on the floor and laughed as hard as we could.

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