When the Honecker government sought to close that window, East Germans filled the West German embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia, demanding freedom.
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She was on the ground floor, her bed so close to the window that I could watch her chest rise and fall the way I watched the grass on their lawn stirring in the wind.
Even Joan, who fought poachers at her lakeside sanctuary at Naivasha, was in the end gunned down in her bedroom, the automatic weapon fired from so close to the window that the muzzle blast set fire to the curtains.
That has not occurred, but that window of opportunity will close at some point.
When the Treasury man asked me what was up, I said it struck me as no big deal, that we would probably close the gold window.
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"My guess is that the window for DNA computing will close fairly soon, " says Bell Labs' Yurke.
"My guess is that the window for DNA computing will close fairly soon, " says Bernard Yurke , a researcher at Lucent's (nyse: LU - news - people) Bell Labs, who built a DNA adding machine.
There were also statements attributed to senior Israelis and Americans suggesting that the window for military action could close within a year, because by then Iran might already have developed a bomb, or improved its air defences sufficiently to deter any attack.
What is out of the ordinary, however, is that they usually show up fairly close to a launch window.
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She came close enough to his open window for him to see that she was actually trembling, her lips groping like those of a child near tears.
The former England captain rejected other offers and signed a five-month contract for the ambitious French club on Thursday in a stunning move that came as the transfer window was starting to close.
Pompey called in the Premier League and, upon examining the relevant paperwork, officials were satisfied that the deal had been completed by the close of the transfer window on 31 January.
"It is probably likely to be deferred until after the close of the window, when also people have got some hopes that the financial chaos will have settled down a little, " he told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek.
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Later that night rain pounds fiercely on the wide leaves of the palms outside my window and lightning flashes perilously close to the Buddhist temple next door.
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