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Test-takers in the red environments, were much better at skills that required accuracy and attention to detail, such as catching spelling mistakes or keeping random numbers in short-term memory.
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The deaf, like dyslexics, rarely win spelling bees, as they tend to produce wildly inaccurate spellings.
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Absent precise language in a contract spelling out contingencies, courts use such doctrines as force majeure to decide whether the contract is still valid.
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Finalists included several spelling bee veterans, but as the night wore on they were down to four contestants after more than 2 hours of competition.
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Jon Pennington, who rocketed past both Miller and me to become the 1986 victor on the word "odontalgia, " came to the Bee possessed of a tremendous passion for spelling and spelling bees -- as well as a lower-than-average fear of public speaking -- and his mother's sunglasses.
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The SEC issued a letter yesterday spelling out guidelines that appear to give companies a little more leeway to value assets as they see fit.
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But not surprising, given that Oxygen is the home to such fare as My Shopping Addiction, The Bad Girls Club, and every possible incarnation of Tori Spelling and her husband.
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She was a bright student, whose progress was generally described as "good" or "very good", although she was considered "indifferent" to her music and spelling lessons.
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Then French, where spelling is almost as crazy as in English, but where at least one given group of letters tend to be always pronounced in the same way.
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" "There were plenty of kids that were there to have a good time and rock out some serious spelling, but there were also plenty that seemed like they were going to be eliminated from society as opposed to a game.
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