Video pictures relayed live back to the research ship mounting the operation show spindly chimneys up to 10m high.

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Its once spectacular revenue growth has slowed to a crawl on stagnant sales for its core cardiac defibrillator and pacemaker products, mounting skepticism over its back-surgery devices and industrywide price pressures.

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Additionally, the 21.5-, 24- and 27-inch diagonal models feature an eight-way comfort adjust stand and new HP Quick Release 2, which is mounted flush on the back of the display for easy VESA mounting.

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Mounting the engines at the back (a design popularised in the 1950s by Sud Aviation's Caravelle, but subsequently abandoned on large aircraft) means that yaw is much reduced, and with it the need for a large tail.

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He knows that if his burgeoning comedy career stalls and the bills start mounting up that he can always fall back on his medicine.

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The hosts hit back, though, and enjoyed a spell of mounting pressure late on, with 22-year-old Canadian ice hockey pin-up Crosby narrowing the gap to 4-3 on a power play with four minutes left.

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If Japan has to pull back on its buying of Treasurys to focus on its own mounting debt, that would put some pressure on interest rates.

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Alice, still standing between them, was looking back and forth, catching glimpses of their majesty as their mounting anger caused them to let it slip, and getting drunker on them.

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Reading, watched by new coach Nigel Adkins, pulled one back in the 68th minute through Hal Robson-Kanu, but any hopes of mounting a comeback were dashed nine minutes later as Mikel Arteta slotted home from the penalty spot.

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