Dr Rugg and his team are now writing software to create dozens of tables and grilles in an attempt to reproduce other linguistic patterns in the manuscript.

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For something a little fancier, puck lights (small, round discs of light found in your local hardware store) in glass-front cabinets and buffet tables create a dazzling showroom effect.

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But when you need to optimize performance, you look at the queries you actually perform, then merge tables to create longer rows, and do away with joins wherever possible.

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The government has long argued that including a wide range of qualifications as GCSE equivalents in the tables can create "perverse incentives" for schools to offer lower quality qualifications.

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Both do the basics: create slides using text, tables, charts, graphics and other multimedia elements, let you apply a master design to them, organize the slides into a slide show and play them or print them out as a presentation.

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Strategic Furniture: Besides purchasing furniture that will create the illusion of more space (think glass tables and couches with small legs), you can position your furniture to create mini-rooms within your apartment to organize the flow of your space.

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When community groups send out appeals for help, convince local merchants to volunteer supplies and staff the tables providing coffee and donuts for the volunteers, we create the social capital which the political scientist Robert Putnam has identified as crucial to healthy societies. (His famous example was that of the choral societies of northern Italy).

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Four tiny shops were combined into one to create the knickknack-crammed Dawno Temu Na Kazimierzu, brimming with mannequins, brass chandeliers, rocking horses and tables fashioned out of sewing machines and workbenches.

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