Much like the language, the arrangement is a model of sublime economy, built around Veirs' slender guitar part and gentle rhythmic accents. (With her sweet, breathy delivery, the Oregon-based Veirs sounds at times like an older, romantically thwarted Taylor Swift.) But as the song continues, the production gradually builds, as if matching her own escalating ache.

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They have painstakingly cut through a heart, millimetre by millimetre, to measure and model the arrangement of the muscle fibres in each slice.

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In the new arrangement, called the "agency model, " the publisher set the retail price and the bookstore agreed per contract not to discount.

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This arrangement between a private university and a further education college shows how an alternative model might operate.

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The proposed arrangement with the state would buy CRRA time to come up with a sustainable business model, CRRA Chairman Don Stein said during a conference call Monday with town officials who are members.

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