Having worked like a mule, you, the CIO, have not seen your family for six years.
"Like a mule to an airplane, " says the elder Effiinger of the H2's superiority.
Until recently, the stony interior could only be explored on the back of a mule.
The advantages of testing cars virtually, rather than building a prototype or a mule car, are numerous.
Would you mind if I take a mule back depending on the status of my legs on Wednesday?
In twenty minutes we're not going to talk about a lot of issues that haven't already been beaten like a mule.
Twenty-five years from now, piloting one's own vehicle will seem weirdly anachronistic and unnecessary, like riding a mule to the mall.
Here, it was a church of lintheads, pulpwooders and sharecroppers, shoutin' people, who said amen like they were throwing a mule shoe.
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule.
Interest, therefore, was based on an unnatural act, that of treating wealth as though it was fertile, when it was as barren as a mule.
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Crimestoppers is running a campaign in universities across the UK to warn students not to be fooled into becoming involved, telling them: "Don't be a mule!"
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But the way has not been easy, and Moto Guzzi has been bought and sold like a mule over the decades, even spending a stretch in government receivership.
Working in a two-man team, on opposite sides of the animal, packers sling a pair of manty-wrapped loads to the sides of a mule's aparejo and lay a 12-15-metre (40-50ft) lash rope gently across his creature's back.
Before long, the number of spindles on a typical mule jumped from four hundred to a thousand.
It has been in development since 2005 and is the the size of a large dog "or a small mule, " says the company.
"There's just like a million reasons why the blind mule thing is a difficult angle, " Vos said Friday.
The ranch also prides itself on being the only place where you can find a high-diving aqua mule act in which the animals dive off a 24ft-high platform into six feet of water.
And if that passivity catches up with them, Carlin's satellite-linked EKG machine or a robotic catheterization lab might be just a 20-minute mule ride away.
It had its own blacksmith shop, sawmill, a sugar cane and molasses mule-drawn mill, and we didn't want to see that lost.
The mule is given a minute to catch his breath, while the rest of the team is rounded up, loaded and lashed.
But the key moment, in the history of the mule, came a few years later, when there was a strike of cotton workers.
The wild and rugged park, 120km west of San Salvador near the Guatemalan border, is named after a mountain pass that has claimed the life of many a coffee-farmer and mule.
Dr Molette and her colleagues raised 150 male mule ducks (a cross between Pekin and Muscovy ducks that is often used to produce foie gras) for 13 weeks in standard poultry-house conditions and then transferred them into individual enclosures.
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Four or five mules long, a string is fashioned, each mule's halter tied to the rear of the next mule's aparejo.
" Another ad showed a couple in the Ozarks who had bought a Beetle to replace their dead mule, explaining: "It was the only thing to do after the mule died.
Well one of those poor souls must have grown up to become a product designer bent on saving future generations from such cruel torture, and the result is a portable "bonfire" that you can fold up and slip into a knapsack or strap onto your pack mule.
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Monteiro is co-founder of Mule Design in San Francisco, and a prolific speaker and design provocateur.
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In 1779, Samuel Crompton, a retiring genius from Lancashire, invented the spinning mule, which made possible the mechanization of cotton manufacture.
We've been known to mule-about vast quantities of gear for hours at a time in order to bring you the latest and greatest in gadgets at a real-time pace.
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