Where you ended up more familiar with the number of acoustic tiles in the ceiling than the number of points in the outline of the speech?

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"There are very strict rules about opening pharmacies, for example, with a ceiling to the number of stores allowed in each town, " he says.

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The French minister said he had proposed a "ceiling" on the number of immigrants allowed into the G5 nations each year.

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Lawmakers put a low ceiling on the total number of policies that could be sold, thus guaranteeing that most insurance companies would make no effort to market them.

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This grew to be inconvenient right around World War I, so to give the federal government more flexibility, Congress decided to set an aggregate borrowing limit known as the debt ceiling, which capped the total number of bonds that could be issued.

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They are also still under prosecution in Brazil for a number of other crimes, including for the collapse of ceiling at one of their temples, which caused 9 deaths.

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Analysts pointed out that gold also has a number of other factors underpinning it beyond just the debt-ceiling impasse, such as European debt problems and inflation in emerging markets.

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Pittsburgh-based architect Lewko Korzeniwsky recently finished turning the traditional, Colonial-style floor plan of an old 4, 600-square-foot French Normandy mansion into an open, contemporary interior, reducing the number of bedrooms to four from six and introducing floor-to-ceiling glass windows and recessed lighting.

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The U.S. federal debt ceiling and a plan for dealing with the U.S. federal deficit were cited by the largest number of respondents.

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