The AIM market, unlike NASDAQ, uses a market maker, a representative firm that uses a series of factors to determine and set a fair share price for stocks like Sky Capital Holdings, which had a low share trading volume.

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Samuel Colman's watercolor "Wharf at Yonkers" (c.1869-70) takes a slightly different tack, his low viewpoint emphasizing the open sky and the broad stretch of Hudson waterway framed by the Palisades and the North Yonkers hills.

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Bad weather prompted some New Zealand planners to cancel outdoor events, but a low-key fireworks display went ahead at Auckland's Sky Tower.

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But if it survives its sunbath, we should be able to see it low on the horizon in the western sky for a couple of weeks, Battams said.

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Survivors at trial spoke of a harrowing early-morning ride, testifying that the low-fare Sky Express bus swerved from side to side and changed speeds erratically before careening off the interstate.

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Because the astronomers were looking at the asteroid low in the sky, they were viewing it through a lot of atmosphere, which scattered some of the light and made the object fainter, he said.

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Low in the sky there's the classic cotton wool Cumulus, the Stratus, a layer of "rather dull" cloud, and higher up Cirrus - "a translucent delicate streak as if a watercolour brush has been stroked across the blue".

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What came out in trial was that Mandell had a staff that was gullible, had low self-esteem and had some skeletons in their closet prior to joining Sky Capital.

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