It helped most of you close some of those budget gaps that had developed, which kept 300, 000 teachers and education workers in your schools and tens of thousands of first responders on your streets.
"Even if I am withdrawing into prayer, I will always be close to all of you... even if I remain hidden to the world, " he told a meeting of Roman priests.
Skiing teaches lessons about the importance of staying close to people you trust, the importance of being prepared and, most of all, the power of taking chances.
Niall FitzGerald, the deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters and a former boss of Unilever, is as close as you can get to the heart of the corporate establishment.
You're so close to the guard in front of you that you can almost smell the guy.
There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touch screen before users cannot reliably tap, flick or pinch them.
Sometimes you might have to work so annoyingly hard, like one close friend of mine did, that you refuse to leave.
It's in different areas, and some of them are very close, and some of them are, you know, a couple of neighborhoods away.
From a distance the pale scree slopes on the mountain-side look like barren fields of snow, but get up close and you'll be amazed by the diversity of wildlife that thrives on this reserve.
Close out of the browser when you see such a dialog come up.
Ms. SIMON: (Singing) Wife of a close friend and you're so vain.
It was also really well acted, when she was dying there was a close up of her face and you could almost see the life go out of her eyes.
Don't expect to set this up for anyone but a close group of friends because if you release this into the world...your ISP will kill you off for eating up bandwidth.
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Unless you're super close to the lip of the stage (in which case you're blinding the poor theremin player with your insistent flash), those shots you keep pumping out can't be that good.
If you win close to 60% of the white vote and lose the electoral college decisively, you are heading into very difficult territory.
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It'll take a lot of work to get there, but we're close, and if you look at some of the progress that's been made, for example in Maryland, Governor O'Malley decided that he wanted to make a huge difference on this issue.
The key defense is the familiar one of staying close to other hikers, at least some of whom you can outrun.
The great advantage of pursuing a product that can close a loop is that you already know the scale of the existing market.
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State all the reasons why you want to close this deal and stress the benefits to you of closing it.
If you are good at the profession of leadership, then you habitually form close relationships with your team members.
So from now until the polls close, we need every one of you to work like you've never before.
We look forward to hearing back from you by the close of business on Friday, Feb. 15, 2008, with a response to our proposal.
If you live close to the water on the East Coast of the United States, you might want to take a step or two back.
Perhaps the smart money is on vacations to Alaska, most of which is as close to the back side of the international date line as you can get.
Therefore, if you're Alan Greenspan--a product of government--you keep a close eye on the competition: private currencies!
You simply lift the 20 pound bag up close to the light and you get 30 minutes of light.
Additionally, the system creates a sort of targeting reticule that appears over nearby cars, letting you know when you're perhaps driving a little too close. (That, of course, is when you have to switch from missiles to guns.) The head unit recently became available in Japan, and while there's no word on a release date or price in the US, hopefully it won't be long off.
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In spite of its peaceful aura, the house was close to downtown Flushing, and you could hear the burr of traffic on Main Street.
Any time you try to close the gap on the last two percent of any business measurement, you begin to distort the business itself.
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