• We are obviously, because we have expertise in this area, making independent assessments, and using them to evaluate decisions we make about advising American citizens in Japan and obviously about advising Americans on American soil about any impact they may face because of this, which is what Chairman Jaczko was talking about yesterday.

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  • The royal couple then went on a walk-about on Plymouth Hoe where about 2, 000 people had waited in the wind and rain to cheer them.

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  • The CR test car got about 30 mpg on premium fuel, and about 27 mpg on high-test when the engine was running.

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  • As of the end of 2009 the study found the industry average MLR was about 85% on large group plans but only about 74% on individual plans, well below the new mandate.

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  • "Given the scale of the planned cuts, you might expect a caring population to express anger about cuts to care for older people, about the impact of cuts on the highway network and congestion and about the impact of cuts on recycling, " he wrote.

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  • Pregnancy in the 21st century isn't just about piling on pounds - again a constant topic of public comment - it's about piling on guilt too.

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  • When I asked Hank Hoell recently about the state, he waxed on about hiking the spectacular Cascades, the dreamy coastal towns and the rich farmlands of the green Willamette Valley.

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  • When you extrapolate that and think through that today via the Internet, you can learn about as much in the same amount of time about some company you don't know anything about on the other side of the world as you would some company on the other side of the country.

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  • For an Intel Pentium II, the package is a square of plastic about 30mm on a side and about as thick as a gold Krugerrand.

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  • May said people need to focus on choices about eating and physical activity rather than be concerned about the numbers on a scale.

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  • It is not about what has gone on before, it is all about what happens on the pitch.

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  • Mr. Henen, who has a doctorate in biology, is part of a little-known army of biologists and other scientists who manage the Mojave desert tortoise and about 420 other threatened and endangered species on about 28 million acres of federally managed military land.

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  • And the fact is, what we are hearing about tonight - or today, I'm sorry - is about a phenomenon that has been going on for about fourteen hundred years.

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  • And then a higher-prestige, lower-audience press, smaller and probably not as remunerative (unless it is part of a mainstream publication or media group which supports it as it might a poetry list) which writes not so much about games, or at least about the latest news on the latest AAA games, but about gaming.

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  • How much talk is there about innovating on behalf of customers or about improving customer experiences?

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  • As an adult I learned more about him on my own, reading about his work, philosophy, and history.

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  • What about the issue of, we touched earlier on about priests, but would there ever be a day when the Church would contemplate, I suspect on the basis of what you said earlier not, but would contemplate the idea of gay marriages?

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  • Rival UK mobile operator 3 said it was concerned about the impact on competition in the UK market, and was also worried about its impact on the ownership of parts of the radio spectrum used for web surfing on mobile phones.

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  • He uses tweets to promote his sites and the media coverage of them, talk about brands, send people to other sites, carry on conversations about industry topics, and reflect on quotidian happenings.

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  • And once we educate everybody about the Laffer Curve, we can then concentrate on teaching them about the equivalent relationship on the spending side of the fiscal ledger, the Rahn Curve.

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  • Asked about energy, Gordon Brown has tended to waffle on about his (unfulfilled) ambitions for renewable energy.

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  • "Apple almost never spills any beans about what its product plans are, so it's worth getting excited about fall based on Tim's willingness to talk about that specific period, as well as his mention of 'new product categories, ' " wrote Darrell Etherington in TechCrunch.

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  • Anyone who's done it talks almost mystically about painful days on the bike, about the serenity achieved by pedaling through the agony.

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  • "I think at the moment Apple has a challenge on their hands but there have been plenty or rumours about an update and blueprints surfacing on the net about what it will look like, " said Mr Thomson of V3.

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  • It lasted for about 25 seconds and it went on for about another minute.

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  • His body was discovered at about noon on Wednesday after staff raised concerns about flies and a smell at the office in St Mary's Gate.

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  • Mr Anstell said the seal pups would be suckled for about three weeks, during which time they would put on about 2kg (4.5lb) a day.

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