Early rising also means a built-in block of exercise time, which pays dividends in the boardroom.

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To do that, you need to order a special wheel holder for the rear door of the H2--and that means you'll block a bit of your rear view as well.

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What the Treasury seem to be saying here is that they're uneasy about handing over borrowing powers to the Welsh Government when their only substantial means of paying it back is the income stream from the block grant - they'd like them to have the paper round as well as the pocket money.

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That means that an object under the stack - in the team's experiments, a block of wood about 10cm long - would not "hear" the sound, and any attempts to locate the object using sound waves would not find it.

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With its new majority in the upper house, the DPJ can block an extension, which means Mr Abe would have to decide whether to use the LDP coalition's two-thirds majority in the lower house to overrule the veto.

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