• If, say, hand shape could not change independently of foot shape, selection could not make back feet suitable for walking while leaving the ape with usable hands.

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  • Indeed, it would be a change for the 6-foot-11 forward, who has never taken more than 31 threes in a season over his 11-year career.

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  • All of these roles could've gone to boys, I suppose except Juno, given that pregnancy has its prerequisites but I have to say it's interesting to have the shoe on the other foot for a change.

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  • Upside to our estimate could provide a boost to Best Buy stock, as we currently estimate a roughly 0.8% sensitivity to a 1% change in domestic revenue per square foot.

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  • After arriving at Newark airport in shackles and with only the shirts on their backs, the boys received showers, food, a bed, bandages for leg and foot wounds and a change of clothes.

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  • Murray said at a press conference that the 72-foot catamaran was attempting to change direction and turn downwind when it capsized.

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  • It was Foot's unwillingness to change his appearance, his clothes or his principles, that brought him a popularity rating of just 24%, the lowest since polling began.

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  • Staffers helped him establish goals such as improving his ability to get in and out of his SUV, and worked with his doctors to change medications that were linked to his foot problems.

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  • Our forecasts reveal that a 5% change in 2011 American Eagle revenue per square foot translates to a 2% move in the price estimate.

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  • Just like any teenager would do, she reached down to change the music on her iPod but kept her foot on the gas and ran into a woman on horseback killing the horse and putting the woman into a coma.

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  • The Fed should not change the value of the dollar anymore than it should change the number of minutes in an hour or inches in a foot.

    FORBES: Slick Solution

  • The Fed should not change the value of the dollar any more than it should change the number of minutes in an hour or inches in a foot.

    FORBES: Slick Solution

  • And on a practical level, we need to get our foot in the door and then maybe we can work to change what's going on both from the inside through the political process and also from the outside by supporting the insurgency.

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  • Germans felt compelled to change their strategy after they were accused of being over-cautious and of disliking foot patrols, according to defence expert Dr Constanze Stelzenmueller.

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  • Investors mulling retail stocks have well-established metrics to look at, among them inventory turnover (cost of sales divided by inventory), same-store-sales growth (the change in sales for stores open at least one year) and sales per square foot.

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  • Its response to the response is: "The government has not yet recognised the changed mood in the House and the strength of our resolve to achieve change" is pretty tough for them - equivalent to a red-faced, foot-stamping tantrum from a less inhibited body.

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  • Barnet made a change with Frazer Toms replacing Wayne Purser after an hour and John Doolan then drilled a right-foot shot wide.

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  • It approved a change allowing Cubans to buy and sell their homes, a move on which there had been some foot-dragging, and called for taxes on the new businesses to be reviewed periodically to ensure they were not too burdensome.

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  • Wilkinson can kick off either foot, his goalkicking is second to none, and he can now dictate the game and change tactics if required.

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  • The base rent may not change much when space goes from one tenant to another, but the sales-per-square-foot will and so will the mall's take.

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  • The camp illustrates just what a nightmare climate change has become for those who are charged with putting the aviation industry's best public-relations foot forward.

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