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Particles must be just the right size:too big and they will stick to the throat, too small and they get exhaled right out.
FORBES: Waiting to Inhale
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Organizations such as the Guttmacher Institute and Population Action International (PAI) state that the number seven billion reflects the urgent need for people to be able to exercise their right to determine the size and spacing of their families.
FORBES: Seven Billion People & Women's Rights: What is the Connection?
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This may be because men have another option: for suit-wearers the best trick is to buy not the right new size but a size too big, for then the suit looks loose and people may be fooled into thinking you are getting slimmer, not fatter.
ECONOMIST: Shocking news: a market that is rejecting standardisation
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Given a stick too short to be useful, and a stone of the right size, they chose the stone.
ECONOMIST: Tool use by non-tool-using animals
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The Tea Party has firmly established itself as a political force to be reckoned with on the right by vowing to cut back the size and scope of the government and now plays the role of kingmaker in the Republican Party.
FORBES: Happy Guy Fawkes Day
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Just a minute, I thought, having found a pair of white-and-tan wingtips, not my style at all, but they seemed in the moonlight to be right out of a store window and close to my size.
NEWYORKER: Wakefield
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The right analogy might be to compare climate with an airplane that keeps on changing its size, shape and weight and has to interact in turn with a constantly changing medium that exhibits far more turbulence than what we are accustomed to.
FORBES: Why Skepticism About Computer Models Is Not A Good Reason For Skepticism About Climate Change
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"Obviously my size would be a massive advantage and he also leaves himself open to the right hand, " he said.
BBC: SPORT | Boxing | Arthur wants crown - and Barrera
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After many weeks of debate and discussion, the plan that ultimately emerges from Congress must be big enough and bold enough to meet the size of the economic challenges that we face right now.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference
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Were you shrunk to nickel size, you'd be strong enough to leap like Superman, right out of the blender.
WSJ: How to Ace a Google Interview
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Large- and medium-size cities in low-tax, right-to-work states--that would be the unhip, red ones--are outperforming the rest of the country.
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