Then two pieces, then three, and, eventually, a whole shoulder right at the threshold of the smokehouse.
The irony is that Obama arrives at the threshold of the White House steeped in ideas that subordinate individual freedom to the collective.
At the threshold of the 21st century we can if we wish end the hesitant approach to Europe shown by Britain over the last 25 years.
The couple's young son Alan was scared of going into the hall and it was felt this area was the focus of the evil in the house, and rather than cross it, the child would stand at the threshold crying.
So the real controversy is what minimum level of solar energy at 65N is the threshold for the descent into an ice age and how unstable the weather becomes near that threshold.
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Antidoping officials say the test was new at the time, so the threshold for triggering a positive result for the banned substance was set conservatively high, and would later be lowered.
By adopting the Lib Dems' proposals to raise the threshold at which income tax is paid, the poorly paid will see their tax burden cut, while the better off will have any benefit from this clawed back.
When I spoke yesterday to the business secretary Vince Cable, who is championing the reform, he confirmed to me that one point still at issue is the voting threshold which public companies have to exceed for their pay plans to go through.
The two horsemeat-free samples were found to have pig DNA at below the 1% threshold.
Of course, Walmart carefully controls employee work schedules and will have the opportunity to design worker hours in a manner that will keep employees at a level below the threshold required to accomplish company healthcare benefits pursuant to the law.
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Gold's plunge into bear territory took less than 20 minutes, starting at 10:25 a.m. in New York and breaching the bear threshold at 10:44 a.m.
And rather than just scholarship reductions for missing the APR threshold, the discussion at these meetings was to bar offending teams from postseason play.
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The two sides had now agreed to preserve the Bush-era tax cuts for most taxpayers, and the negotiations had narrowed to one issue: the threshold of income at which a sliver of the wealthiest Americans would pay more.
Silver illustrates this disconnect with a helpful table, which shows that by keeping the maximum rate at 35% but requiring a minimum 35% tax on all income at a certain threshold, the tax burden is shifted to those earning close to the threshold and away from those earning significantly in excess of the threshold.
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Once again, the threshold at which these higher rates kick in does not favor the married.
He will also freeze the threshold at which taxpayers become liable to pay income tax at 40% in 2012-13.
They repeated a call to increase the threshold at which businesses pay business rates, and promised a consultation into changing the way rates are calculated for small businesses.
Mr Alexander said the coalition's raising of the threshold at which people started to pay income tax would "lift over a million lower paid people out of tax altogether".
He suggested details would be announced in the Budget on 21 March - adding that his priority was a rise in the threshold at which people started paying tax.
More and more investors are coalescing into groups, hopeful of reaching the threshold at which they can instruct mortgage-pool trustees to act against servicers (25% of note-holders in a given issue).
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But he insisted that even if the threshold at which people have to pay is increased, as the Law Society had called for, money would have to come out the legal aid budget elsewhere.
But the, so the paybacks I don't think are unreasonable and we will be announcing raising the threshold at which you have to start paying back so there will be less requirement to payback initially.
Regal Entertainment Group, which operates more than 500 theaters in 38 states, last month rolled back shifts for non-salaried workers to 30 hours per week, putting them under the threshold at which employers are required to provide health insurance.
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The U.S. is now on the verge of a symbolic threshold: the point at which more than half of all American households receive and accept transfer benefits from the government.
On Tuesday, the cost of government borrowing spiked at a new record of 6.76% after the vote, around the 7% threshold at which Portugal and Ireland were forced to accept bailouts.
Sergeant Baitinger put the shield up over his head as he passed under the attic opening and into the threshold of the bedroom, right at the end of the hall.
Allowing the tax cuts passed during the administration of George W. Bush to expire at the end of the year for those above this income threshold would result in substantially higher rates paid on dividend income, currently taxed at 15%, same as long-term capital gains, for wealthier tax payers.
The Central American crosses the threshold and follows Marc Devade to an office at the end of the corridor.
It is hard to see how Mr Erdogan's lot can be kept out of power in the longer run (a general election is due by April 2004 at the latest) unless parliament passed a bill to lower the threshold to let other parties in.
From April, Hull City Council plans to raise council tax by 1.95% - just below the 2% threshold at which a local referendum must be held.
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