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  • To the west are the saw-edges of glacier-encrusted rock and ice, serrated by more than 30 jagged peaks heavy with snow, the highest of which is 6, 768m-high Huascaran, the tallest mountain in the tropics.

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  • We have come up with a rough measure, along the lines of the "cash flow" used by analysts to evaluate companies with heavy plant-and-equipment outlays--cash flow here referring to the sum of earnings and depreciation.

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  • They are often exploited by unscrupulous recruitment agencies whose exorbitant fees mean they start work with heavy burdens of high-interest debt, or by employers who withhold workers' passports and don't bother abiding by health and safety laws.

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  • It was earthquakes earlier this year, now, Northwest China has been hit with severe landslides triggered by heavy rain.

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  • My anxiety was not eased by the presence of steak knives with heavy wooden handles and sharp serrated blades, and a sort of diabolical trolley that was wheeled, steaming, to the table by a stout man with a pencil mustache who with the flourish of a gleaming knife indicated the meat and demanded to know where I wanted it carved.

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  • According to survey of more than 15, 000 small- and medium-sized enterprises, those with a medium or heavy Internet presence expect to grow by 17% over the next three years, compared with 12% for those less engaged online.

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  • Southgate's team were knocked out of their stride by the loss of Downing, who hobbled off with a nasty-looking injury following a heavy challenge by Stiliyan Petrov.

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  • The same device could also play video that is streamed over an airport network and could, in theory, surf the Web and retrieve e-mail easily, with all the heavy lifting done by the Powermac or iMac it's connected to.

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  • Recovery Act transportation expenditures by state are positively correlated with private employment growth in heavy construction.

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  • The Knicks hoped to get there this season by surrounding Anthony and the core players with a roster heavy on veterans.

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  • The Democrats' announcement essentially hijacked a press conference 30 minutes later, held by a bipartisan group of senators from states with a heavy auto presence of U.S. auto manufacturing facilities.

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