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The young Marines stationed here made a long human chain and spent more than an hour in 120-degree heat offloading bottles of water from the trucks.
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At the high end of the spectrum, assuming 1, 280 hrs of time to get a minor degree, that equates to 160 eight hour work days, i.e. 32 weeks of full-time work experience assuming 8 hour days Monday through Friday.
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It was a 2 hour seminar for MBAs who are working towards a degree in Quantitative Finance.
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My father, known in the family as "Rog, " rattles through the iconic players with gusto and the degree of brevity required when one is teeing off in a hour.
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The 2012 election has been characterized by 24-hour news content serviced by online comment, 360-degree analysis of candidate speeches and live TV debates that are wrapped with streams of digital vox-popping.
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Indeed it even suggests that for those over 25, half an hour of TV viewing "may shorten life to a similar degree" as smoking a cigarette.
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It's the first stereo speaker to offer 360-degree sound in a battery-powered device, and features a 15-hour rechargeable battery.
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"For a kid who comes out and gets a job in the high school labour market with a college degree, they're going to get paid 10 or 11 bucks an hour, " says Drexel University economist Prof Paul Harrington.
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One rocket leaves the launch pad, executes a 90-degree turn about 50 feet off the ground, streaks at several hundred miles an hour straight toward a group of landsailers, crashing just short of them in a cloud of white dust.
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From there it was a grueling one and half hour drive on bumpy roads to the city of Ahmed Pur Sharqia in sizzling 45 degree temperatures.
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